Short Stories
“St. Thomas Aquinas Administers the Turing Test,” in Diabolical Plots, December 2024
“Cassandra Takes the Plunge,” in Trollbreath Magazine, November 2024 | originally published in Shoreline of Infinity’s Science Fiction Fairy Tales Special Issue, September 2022 | recommended in Nerds of a Feather’s Hugo Awards Recommended Reading
“Filtration Systems,” in Underland Arcana, Issue 6, May 2022
“Human Body as Compendium,” in PseudoPod, February 2022 | “…Visceral body horror fills every sentence and paragraph, but the real horror is the emotional reality behind what is happening. Berman’s story is deeply unsettling and disturbing and sharp as a knife’s edge.” - Maria Haskins
“Things Found in Richard Pickman’s Basement, and Things Left There,” in Weird Horror, Issue 2, May 2021
“Ordinary People,” in It Came From Miskatonic University (Broken Eye Books), August 2020
“Bridges,” in Daily Science Fiction, August 2019 | reprinted in SESI/SENAI’s Projeto Movimento do Aprender, Vol. 2
“Bubbles and His Biped,” in Fireside, April-June 2019 | “This is definitely the funnest story of the issue so far…. MacKenzie has Big Cat-Person Energy.” - Quick Sip Reviews
“Two Legs, Four Legs, Six Legs,” in Cicada, Vol. 20 Num. 4, March 2018
Essays
“The Walls of the Box,” in Nightmare Magazine, July 2026
“What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel?” in LitHub, May 2026
“‘You Have to Cook It In Your Own House’: One Family’s Pork and Sauerkraut Ritual,” in FRIEDAcommunity’s FOOD BOOK, November 2025 | originally published in Heritage Local, August 2023
“‘Selfish or Annoying’: Etiquette, Gender, and Race in Oops!: The Manners Guide for Girls,” in An American Girl Anthology (University Press of Mississippi), May 2025
“Nostalgia, but Make It Stressful: Fantasy Game as Pressure Valve,” in the British Fantasy Society Journal’s Special Issue on Fantasy and Gaming, Issue 24, Fall 2024
“Form as Laboratory,” in Blood and Spades: Poets of the Dark Side, March 2023
Poems
“Ophelia After Her Distress,” in Shakespeare Unleashed (Crystal Lake Publishing), July 2023
“The Queen Converses with Her Jailer,” “Further Experiments in the Revival of Organisms,” and “Observations of a Shoggoth,” in Blood and Spades: Poets of the Dark Side, March 2023