Essays & Poems

Essays

Alaska Quarterly Review cover
Where Am I?
Five Points Magazine Cover

How Things Work” The New York Times

Breathing Underwater” On the Seawall

Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound” Modern Love The New York Times

Florida” The Cincinnati Review

Just This Breath The Sun

  • Honorable Mention American Society of Journalists and Authors Crisis Coverage Awards

Girl Underwater” The Sun

“Pedal, Pedal, Pedal” The Sun

Shopping for Antiques, Finding My Mother” The New York Times

I’ll Never Bother You Again” The Sun

Fun for Everyone Involved” Brevity

“You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know” Good Housekeeping

“Becoming a Mouth” Fourth Genre

“Men and Refrigeration” New Ohio Review

“Termites” Five Points 

  • Notable Essay, Best American Essays 

“I’ll Never Bother You Again” The Sun

  • Notable Essay, Best American Essays 

“Tell Me Again, Who Are You?” Alaska Quarterly Review

  • Notable Essay, Best American Essays

Craft Essays

Four students arranging pieces of paper together

Meaningful, Memorable, and Brief” Brevity Blog

Structuring a Writing Life” Brevity Blog

Write More Powerful Scenes with the Rule of Three” Brevity Blog

True Flash” Brevity Blog

Write what scares you (without scaring away readers)” Brevity Blog

“Unkeep a Journal to Grow Your Writing” Writer’s Digest

“Use Braiding to Layer your Story Line” Writer’s Digest

Poems

The Bennington Review cover
Five Points Cover

“Here I am Walking at Night in Summer” Conduit

“Meeting My Eighty-year-old Aunt at the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine for Lunch" “From Michigan on Her Winter Break, My Niece” Painted Bride Quarterly

Mother’s Day” Gettysburg Review

BirdwatchersAnacapa Review 

  • Pushcart Prize nomination 

Suburban Journal” DIAGRAM

“Inside Out” Bennington Review

Tuesday with Oars” Bennington Review

After the Streets Flooded” SWWIM 

“Accidental Practitioners” Agni

“Every Girl Has Her Own America” Conduit

“Protection” The Adroit Journal

“Bush Gardens” Five Points

“Aubade” Southern Poetry Review

Pool” Body

“I Swam Where Johnny Was Tarzan” The North American Review

“Woman without a Man without a Fish without a Bicycle” Field