a list of publications
Fiction
“Compounding Pharmacy,” Surely Magazine, Issue 34, Spring 2026
“A Well-Ordered Structure,” Denver Quarterly, Vol. 60, Issue 2, Winter 2026
“The Chlorophyll Library,” Michigan Quarterly Review, December 2023
“Red Work,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, June 2023
“The Worker and The Hawk,” Annulet: Fiction Folio, May 2023
“Trapunto”, short story, Joyland, January 2023
“City Beautiful”, short story, Portland Monthly Magazine, June 2022
“Moon Snail”, West Branch Wired, selected & introduced by Garth Greenwell, 2019
“Rock Jenny”, short story, The Seventh Wave, March 2019
“In Kind”, short story, Nat. Brut, nominated for Pushcart Prize, November 2018
“Skunk Cabbage”, novel excerpt, The Normal School, Vol 10: Issue 2, November 2017
“Anguilla rostrata: American eel”, novel excerpt, The Common, January 2017
“The Book of New Fish”, novel excerpt, The Offing, September 2015
"Half-life," short story, Cactus Heart Press, December 2013
Essays
"Who is Home in Publishing?" The Seventh Wave Magazine, 2024
“HYDROGEOPHALLO”, Canthius Magazine, September 2021
“The Climate of Gender”, Catapult, May 2021
“Wolf Rock: On Safety in Art & Science”, OrionMagazine.org, April 2021
“Broken Contracts in an Old-Growth Forest”, The Forest Log, written in residence for the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest's Long-Term Ecological Research Project, February 2019“On the First Anniversary of a Hate Crime”, them.us, channel of Conde Nast, January 2018
“When My Uncle Lost His Memory, I Held Tighter To My Own”, BuzzFeed LGBT, October 2016
Criticism
“Stuffed: Unpacking the Politics of Taxidermy in Kate Clark's Sculpture”, Critical Read, Vol 2: iv, Fall 2019
“The Many Lives and Deaths of the Body in Guadalupe Nettel’s ‘After the Winter,’” LA Review of Books, Sept 2018
“The Drone and The Tunnel: How We Read Indigenous Stories Matters”, LA Review of Books, June 2018
“Mary McCarthy's The Group: Three Queer Readings”, Catapult, May 2018
“Revisiting the Tragic Life of Minik”, WARSCAPES, October 2017
“Racism, Natural History, and Fiction”, The Millions, September 2017
and some press
"Between the Covers: Callum Angus", Tin House podcast interview with David Naimon, August 2021"Trans Phantasmagoria in A Natural History of Transition", Chicago Review of Books
"All Manner of Shades of Green," review of A Natural History of Transition in The Ex-Puritan
"States of Flux", review of A Natural History of Transition in Montreal Review of Books
“Books: A Natural History of Transition”, interview with Betsy Kepes on North Country Public Radio
“Mapping Relationships with the Physical World: A Conversation with Callum Angus”, interview with The Seventh Wave
“The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus”, interview with Nora Broker for The Rumpus, 2021