Electric Literature
“Going from Cocaine to Novels, with the Help of ‘Novel with Cocaine,’” a personal essay about past casual cocaine use and a Russian novel, published in Electric Literature on April 23, 2019.
Lunch Ticket
“#VirginiaWoolf, #Instagram, and #Feminism,” a personal essay about Instagram-fueled interior decorating, feminism, and what Virginia Woolf would make of it all, published in Lunch Ticket in January 2019.
Lunch Ticket
“Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Author of The Fact of a Body,” an interview I conducted with Marzano-Lesnevich that became the featured interview in Lunch Ticket’s Issue 14, published in June 2018.
Lunch Ticket
“Bad Connection,” a personal essay about how my rural Wisconsin home did not have reliable Internet for two-and-a-half years, through the majority of my MFA program, published in Lunch Ticket in March 2019.
Lunch Ticket
“Writers Read: Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli,” a book review and writer’s reaction to Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, published in Lunch Ticket on December 31, 2018.
Three Guys One Book
“When We Fell In Love — E.P. Floyd,” a personal essay about when and how I fell in love with reading, published in Three Guys One Book on October 16, 2018.
The Rumpus
“Telling the Story of Now: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli,” an interview I conducted with Luiselli on Lost Children Archive, published in The Rumpus on February 15, 2019.
Lunch Ticket
“Packing Lists and Passed-On Traits,” a personal essay about discovering I have a younger sister in Utah, one of the children of the father neither of us has ever met, published in Lunch Ticket on November 16, 2018.
Eunoia Review
“E Is For,” a flash creative nonfiction piece about the first time I tasted farm fresh eggs, published in Eunoia Review on February 4, 2018.
Lunch Ticket
“Litdish: Valeria Luiselli, Author,” an interview I conducted with Valeria Luiselli regarding her process of translation and writing, published in Lunch Ticket on February 13, 2019.
Lunch Ticket
“Food Justice: A Menu,” a personal essay on food justice and access that charts my own journey discovering fresh and organic food, published in Issue 14 of Lunch Ticket’s blog on September 8, 2018.
AULA Library Research Award
“Domesticity and the Death of the ‘American Dream’ in Post-Recession Fiction,” a literary criticism research paper that won the second place award in the 2019 Antioch University Los Angeles Library Research Awards.