Chris Dodds

Necessary Cuts

My debut novella, winner of the 2026 Miami University Press Novella Prize. Forthcoming. You can read an interactive fragment while you wait.

Short Fiction

• Dog — BULL, 2026

  "Easier to be chosen than to choose. Jenni knows this. She pulls us through the day on an invisible leash—her grandmother's birthday, a trailer park, a couch that looks like an orange muppet—until there's no edges left."

Nonfiction

• The Desert — Marrow Magazine, Issue 16

  "I deleted him from my phone. His name was my hand hovering over a garbage disposal."

Recognition

• Longlist, Fractured Lit 2025 Elsewhere Prize