Links to Selected Publications

Creative Nonfiction

“Surprise! You’re Adopted,” American Literary Review

“Runaway Mother,” Fourth Genre *Notable Best American Essays 2022

“Neural Pathways to Love,” The Normal School

“The Maternal Lizard Brain,” Fourth Genre

“The Moon Does Not Fight,” VIDA Review

“Word Salad,” The Threepenny Review

“This Voice of Mine,” VIDA Review

“When You Knock on the Door At The Suburban Inn,” Brevity

“Makin’ Dirty Dishes,” Hippocampus Magazine

“The Evergreens,” Literary Mama

Craft & Conversations

“No Ideas but in (Beautiful) Things,” Brevity

“’Did I Miss a Key Point?’ A Study of Repetition in Joan Didion’s Blue Nights,” Assay

“Me, Myself, & Cyber-I: A Craft Analysis of Narrative Persona in Creative Nonfiction,” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

Book Reviews & Interviews

“Being a Woman is a Horror Story,” A Conversation With Stephanie Feldman about SATURNALIA at Electric Literature

“The Gap Between Fundamentalist Evangelical Culture and Hollywood Pop Culture: A Conversation With Jaye Viner,” Necessary Fiction

“A Review of Jeannine Ouellette’s The Part That Burns,” Brevity’s blog

“A Missing Sister, An Obsessive Hunt: A Review of Betsy Bonner’s The Book of Atlantis Black,” The Adroit Journal

“Review of How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences,” Hippocampus Magazine

“Father as God and Monster: A Review of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah A. Lott,” The Adroit Journal

“The Power of the Crone: Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time To Spare,” The Rumpus