Short Literary Writing

I have published essays, poetry, and fiction in many literary venues, including Ecotone, The Coachella Review, Brevity Blog, Full Grown People, and more, and my short work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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“The Other Guys,” Essay. Coachella Review, June 5, 2026.

“Record First, Write Later,” Craft essay on creative nonfiction. The Brevity Blog, June 1, 2026.

“A Crack, a Dog, and a Bowl—Writing the Mosaic Essay,” Craft essay on creative nonfiction. The Brevity Blog, Feb. 14, 2025.

Writer’s Residency Recipient, Wildacres Retreat, Wildacres, NC, July 2024.

“An Autistic Girl’s Guide to Horses,” Essay. Catapult, Dec. 8, 2022. Featured in Longreads on May 30, 2023.

“The Holes We Live With,” Essay. Full Grown People, Oct. 28, 2021. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

“No, I Don’t Want Your Advice on How My Kids or I Can Be ‘Cured,’” Essay. Catapult, Dec. 16, 2019.

“What It Takes to Advocate for Twice-Exceptional Kids in School,” Essay. Catapult, May 29, 2019.

“Friendship Has Always Been Hard for Me—I Hope I Can Make It Easier for My Kids,” Essay. Catapult, March 25, 2019.

“My Son and I Don’t Do Well with Chaos—and That’s Okay,” Essay. Catapult, Feb. 12, 2019.

“For Parents and Children with Psychiatric Disabilities, the Stigma Creates an Extra Fight We Don’t Need,” Essay. Catapult, Jan. 7, 2019.

“When You’re a Mom with Anxiety Disorder, You Know the Monsters Are Real,” Essay. Catapult, Nov. 26, 2018.

“Finding a World Big Enough for My Twice-Exceptional Kids,” Essay. Catapult, Oct. 17, 2018.

“My Disability Story Isn’t for Your Catharsis,” Essay. The Establishment, Sept. 25, 2018.

“The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents),” Essay. Catapult, July 10, 2018. The most-read publication of the year for Catapult magazine.

“With New Life Comes a Fear of Death,” Essay. Motherwell Magazine, May 22, 2017. Top-ten most-read publications of the year for Motherwell magazine.

“Reading Romance When You Were Never a Virgin,” Essay. Full Grown People, Dec. 6, 2016.

“How The TSA Perpetuates Harmful Mental Health Stigmas,” Essay. The Establishment, May 12, 2016.

“The Consequences of Resisting a Professor’s Advances,” Essay. The Toast, March 23, 2016.

“Why I Didn’t Report Being Raped in College,” Essay. Side B Magazine, April 27, 2015.

“A Mother’s Suicide and the Guilty Burden of Statistics,” Essay. The Toast, April 9, 2015.

“Being Counted: Reporting My Rape at a School Under Title IX Investigation,” Essay. The Toast, Sept. 16, 2014.

“A Lecturer’s Almanac,” Essay. Hybrid Pedagogy, Oct. 21, 2013.

“Why Birds Have Wings,” Fiction. Bayou, vol. 49, pp. 100-01, 2008.

“Mahmudiyah,” Fiction. Pindeldyboz, Sept. 24, 2007. Nominated by the editors for the Million Writers Award.

“Nannies,” Fiction. Descant, vol. 46, pp. 98-9, 2007.

“Summer Storm,” Poem. Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, vol. 28, p. 49, 2007.

“Guantanamera,” Fiction. Ecotone, Vol. 2.2, p. 144, 2007.

“The Sting,” Fiction. The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), p. D2, April 8, 2007.

“Curtains,” Fiction. Flashquake, vol. 6.1, Fall 2006. Editor’s Pick.

Letter to the Editor. The Believer Magazine, vol. 3.1, p. 2, 2005.

“Where Have They Gone,” Poem. Illya’s Honey, vol. 10.3, p. 34, 2004.

“Leolyn’s Diary,” Poem. Evansville Review, vol. 14, p. 67, 2004.

“Leaves,” Poem. Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, vol. 21, pp. 34-5, 2003.

“Mountain Lion,” Poem. Wildacres Poetry, p. 43. 2003.

“Moment,” Poem. Ellipsis, vol. 39, p. 5, 2003.

“Echo,” Poem. California Quarterly, vol. 29.2, p. 14, 2003.

“It Is Time,” Poem. Connecticut River Review, vol. 23.1, p. 52, 2003.

“Jezebel,” Poem. The Chaffin Journal, pp. 25-6, 2002.

“Little Girl,” Poem. Brownstone Review, vol. 9, p. 50, 2000.

“She Says Suffering” and “Ceres and the Serpent,” Poems. Sarasota Review, pp. 45-8, 2000.

“Bathsheba” and “Heart Beat,” Poems. Sarasota Review, pp. 74-6, 1999.