WRITING PORTFOLIO
THE INFAMOUS "WORST ROOMMATE EVER" WAS MY DAD'S CHILDHOOD NEMESIS, GAWKER
April 2022
We knew the murderer/squatter Jamison Bachman as a nighttime terror named Jammie.
NORMAL FEET, THE BOILER
October 2022
Aiyana, who had long narrow toes, hated feet even more than I did. 2022 Pushcart Nomination.
THE MURALIST, THE RUMPUS
February 2023
\The thing about living with my ex’s mural of his own ex about two hundred feet from my apartment was that I loved it.
SMART PIGS, NASHVILLE REVIEW
April 2021
First we are dogs, and then we are pigs, and then we are ourselves.
FINDING ROOMMATES ONLINE REQUIRES LUCK, SKILL, AND HUMILITY, GAWKER
July 2023
Reactivating your Facebook and other terrors.
REVIEW PARIS IS A PARTY, PARIS IS A GHOST, CLEVELAND REVIEW OF BOOKS
2021
Review of a debut novel by David Hoon Kim.
SPLITS, DIAGRAM
2022
Spending what culminates to hours, maybe days of my life trying to get one leg forward and the other backward.
SEMI-ALLIGATOR, THE JOURNAL
2022
I could afford an alligator right now if I wanted.
MERRITT ISLAND, WHURK MAGAZINE
September 2016
The last dusky seaside sparrow disappeared three years before everyone agreed they weren’t coming back. Poem republished by the Science Museum of Virginia.
UNREAL HOUSEWIVES IN “TRUE STORY: WHAT REALITY TV SAYS ABOUT US,” CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS
February 2022
Refreshingly, sociologist Danielle J. Lindemann isn’t interested in asking whether or not reality TV is “really real.”