Writing


"Examining Authenticity in Memoir," Brevity Blog, forthcoming in May 2024.

"A Structural History of American Public Health Narratives: Rereading Priscilla Wald's Contagious and Nancy Tomes' Gospel of Germs amidst a 21st-Century Pandemic," Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2023.

"Seeing Ghosts: How Maya Angelou’s and Maxine Hong Kingston’s Memoirs Published in the 1970s Remain Eerily Relevant Today," Coffin Bell Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2021.

"An Imitation Game: Artistic Interpretations, Assumptions, and Expectations in Creative Nonfiction," The Writers Chronicle (the journal for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs), February 2021.

"Surviving My First Writers’ Conference: Three Lessons," Thought Catalog, March 2015.

"Truth in Fiction," Women Writers, Women’s Books, July 2014.

"Writing Lessons," Ploughshares (Emerson College), June 2014.


"Mud," Vineyard Literary, Issue Two, February 2022.

"Sunny Day," Sand Hills Literary Magazine (Augusta University), Vol. XLV, No. 1, Spring 2021, available in print only.

"Fish Bowl," Watershed Review (California State University), Spring 2021.

"This is America," Adanna Literary Journal, Fall 2020, available in print only.

"Epoch," Witness (Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Vol. XXXI No. 1, Spring 2018.

"Taking the Train," The Writer, Vol. 126, No. 6, June 2013, available in print only.


"Women have always been key to the labor movement: Solidarity between male and female workers is crucial to advancing the cause in America," The Washington Post, August 24, 2022. This piece was added to the Bunk History Project at the University of Richmond in April 2024.


The Polarization of Parenting in Corporate America,Literary Mama, August 2013.

"What Do You Do?" Brain, Child Magazine, August 2013.

"Passions and Possibilities Being Nurtured at a Local Farm," The Buzz Newspapers, Vol. 17, No. 8, May 2013, available in print only.

"Watching My Diehard Football Fandom Turn to Dread," The Atlantic, January 2013.