Published Writing

Fiction + Poetry*

“Maybe They Don’t Fuck Each Other” (print) Archways 1
Simon and Schuster (forthcoming)

“Black Snake” and
“How to Drink from a Water Bottle Like a Man” (print)
Lake Effect Vol 24 Spring 2020

“Hang Fire” (print)
The Antioch Review Winter 2020

“No God Just Google”
Heavy Feather Review

“He Was Right”
(online + print)
BULL, Men’s Fiction

“Why I Won’t Work at the Mill”
Hobart

“Digging in the Woods”
Five 2 One Magazine’s
The Sideshow

“I Made this for You*” and
“Things I Never Wrote About*”

Reality Beach

“Tornado Watch”
Split Lip Magazine

“Reenactment Therapy”
(online + print)
Ginosko Literary Journal #18

“Everyone’s Fifteen Minutes”
Vol. 1 Brooklyn

“This House*”
A-Minor Magazine

“This Stubborn Loop” (print)
Witch Craft Magazine Issue 3

“Deer Meat”
The Talking Book

“Suburban Jungle”
Literary Orphans

“When I was Young I Used to Sing at the Ocean”
Maudlin House

“Tuesday, 5:45*” and
“When I was Young I Dreamt of the Flood*”

Deluge

“Back of the Bus”
Flash Flash Click

“Man vs. Wild”
Unbroken Journal

“Highway Cleanup”
The Molotov Cocktail

“This Machine Runs on Your Time”
Shotgun Honey

“What is This*”
Enclave

“Sirens of Blue Lava*”
Blue Lava Exhibit, PS1, Iowa City

“Climbing Trees”
The Squawk Back

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Essays, Reviews + Interviews

MAGNOLIA CANOPY OTHERWORLD, Erin Carlyle’s debut poetry collection, reviewed by Nicholas Rys (Driftwood Press)

SLEEPOVERS, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’ debut fiction collection, reviewed by Nicholas Rys

CONVERSATIONS WITH CONTRIBUTORS: DUSTIN M. HOFFMAN,
The Adroit Journal

A WORLD A FEW DIMENSIONS OVER: A CONVERSATION WITH SARAH ROSE ETTER

Jeff Jackson with Nicholas Rys for The Brooklyn Rail

COLD WAR PARANOIA IN MAYO’S SURVIVAL HOUSE for The Toledo Paper

LEE MARTIN with Nicholas Rys for The Brooklyn Rail

Jeff Jackson’s Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel

The Jazz of Life: BUD SMITH with Nicholas Rys

They Can’t Kill Us Until they Kill Us: HANIF ABDURRAQIB with Nicholas Rys

Book review of Hanif Abdurraqib’s collection of essays They Can’t Kill Us Until
They Kill Us published in
The Mid-American Review

SOMETIMES HUMILIATION FEELS GOOD: A CONVERSATION WITH ELLE NASH

Book review of Alistair McCartney’s The Disintegrations published in
The Mid-American Review

If You Want to Hear America Singing, Try the Walmart Parking Lot

THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #92: BUD SMITH

BETWEEN BODY AND MIND: AN INTERVIEW WITH MEREDITH ALLING

TOBIAS CARROLL GOES WEST

Wendy C. Ortiz Chronicles a Dreamscape

YOU GOTTA BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT: AN INTERVIEW WITH DONALD RAY POLLOCK

FEEDING THE STATUES DYNAMITE WITH SEAN KILPATRICK

Hail Oblivion! The Apocalypse Book that Wasn’t

UNDER THE INFLUENCE #3 ROY ORBISON AND DAVID LYNCH

LISTENING FOR THE VOICES WE ALL HEAR: A CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT MCCLANAHAN

“The Unrelenting Vision of the Unwell in Literature”
Essay for Broken Grey Wires

AXL ROSE AND DAVID FOSTER WALLACE FIST FIGHT IN HEAVEN, A CONVERSATION WITH JULIET ESCORIA

ALBUM REVIEW: MELT YOURSELF DOWN ‘LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH’

ZAC’S CONTROL PANEL BY DENNIS COOPER

‘Bad Moon Rising’ Turned 30 And No One Cares But Me

MOCK THE DEATH TRANCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEAN KILPATRICK

“EVERYONE IS A CRACKPOT” – A CONVERSATION WITH SEAN H. DOYLE

JEFF JACKSON AND JOSH YATES COMMUNE WITH THE DEAD