Essays

Here are all of my essays published in magazines, from the most recent to the oldest.

I used to write a frequently, for many different venues. I write fewer pieces for magazines now. Now, I’m a columnist for two magazines, and a regular writer for another. But that’s mostly it.

Now, I publish most of my essays here on my website. And I spend most of my time writing books.

To sort my work by topic, use the links.

Disability & Mental HealthSexual ViolenceHigher EdSocial JusticeParenthoodOn WritingOn FreelancingBook Reviews

 

Chronicle of Higher Education: You Want to Write for the Public, but About What?
Jan. 10, 2020
Women in Higher Education: Campus Climate and Campus Rape
Jan. 1, 2020
Catapult: No, I Don’t Want Your Advice on How My Kids or I Can Be “Cured”
Dec. 16, 2019
Chronicle of Higher Education: 10 Questions Every Academic Should Ask Before Writing for the Public
Dec. 2, 2019
Women in Higher Education: How—and When—to Apologize as a Woman in Higher Ed
Dec. 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: The Value of Our Work
Nov. 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Pitching Your Book to a Small Press
Oct. 1, 2019
BookTrib: 7 Books with Courageous Heroines
Sept. 19, 2019
Women in Higher Education: What Small Presses Can Do for You
Sept. 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Swapping Monographs for Trade Books
Aug. 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: How to Navigate Being the Designated Worrier
July 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Don’t Let Trolls Set Your Boundaries
June 1, 2019
Catapult: What It Takes to Advocate for Twice-Exceptional Kids in School
May 29, 2019
How to Write Publicly About Mental Illness
May 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Writing About Surviving and Being an Expert on Sexual Assault
April 1, 2019
Catapult: Friendship Has Always Been Hard for Me—I Hope I Can Make It Easier for My Kids
March 25, 2019
Booktrib: Review of WHY WE LIE by Amy Impellizzeri
March 14, 2019
Disability Acts: “Dan Mallory and ‘Bipolar Made Me Do It'”
March 5, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Chancellor Folt and the Double Bind of Women Leaders in Higher Ed
March 1, 2019
Catapult: My Son and I Don’t Do Well with Chaos—and That’s Okay
Feb. 12, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Do One Thing
Feb. 1, 2019
Catapult: For Parents and Children with Psychiatric Disabilities, the Stigma Creates an Extra Fight We Don’t Need
Jan. 7, 2018
BookTrib: TRUE PLACES Captures Identity
Jan. 3, 2019
Women in Higher Education: My Pie Is Full
Jan. 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: We’ve Been Tolerating Bretts—But Not Anymore
Dec. 1, 2018
Catapult: When You’re a Mom with Anxiety Disorder, You Know the Monsters Are Real
Nov. 26, 2018
Women in Higher Education: You’re Super—And a Hero—Not a Superhero
Nov. 1, 2018
Disability Acts: The Inescapable Images of Ableism
Oct. 21, 2018
Catapult: Finding a World Big Enough for My Twice-Exceptional Kids
Oct. 17, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Find the Middle Lane
Oct. 1, 2018
The Establishment: My Disability Story Isn’t For Your Catharsis
Sept. 25, 2018
Writers on Writing: I Need Coffee: Muddling Through a Media Kit
Sept. 5, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Federal Student Aid Should Be Freedom, Not a Trap
Sept. 1, 2018
Women in Higher Ed: Held Accountable: An Interview with Andrea Pino
Aug. 1, 2018
Tall Poppy Blog: UPTOWN THIEF by Aya de Leon
Aug. 2, 2018
Catapult: The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents)
July 10, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Trust Disabled Students and Their Technology
July 1, 2018
Tall Poppy Blog: FIREFLY LANE by Kristin Hannah
June 28, 2018
Tall Poppy Blog: THE PROMISE BETWEEN US by Barbara Claypole White
June 7, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Quit Lit is About Labor Conditions
June 1, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Stop Scapegoating the Mentally Ill
May 1, 2018
Tall Poppy Blog: Lady Julia Grey Mysteries by Deanna Raybourn
April 19, 2018
Disability Acts: Awakening to the Intersection of Disability and Gender Violence
April 9, 2018
Women in Higher Ed: The Important Activism of Kids These Days
April 1, 2018
Underground Book Reviews: MALEFICA by Katie H. Weill
March 19, 2018
Disability Stories: Conferences Must Embrace Accessible Technology
March 16, 2018
Thoughts on Journalism: Playboy Sued Boing Boing—They Failed. But We All Suffer For It.
March 13, 2018
Women in Higher Education: How Institutions Handle Atrocities Can Change the World—Or Not
Mar. 1, 2018
Women in Higher Education: The First Amendment and Racism on Campus
Feb. 1, 2018
BookTrib: Forkner’s “The Real Thing” Teaches Profound Truths
Jan. 18, 2018
Booktrib: THE REAL THING by Tina Ann Forkner
Jan. 18, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Sexual Harassment in Higher Ed
Jan. 1, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education: On Faculty and Mental Illness
Dec. 18, 2017
Underground Book Reviews: SHADOWED STRENGTH by Wendi L. Wilson
Dec. 11, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Campus Protest, DACA, and the Age of Constant Crisis
Dec. 1, 2017
Huffington Post: When You Talk About Banning Laptops, You Throw Disabled Students Under the Bus
Nov. 27, 2017
Women in Higher Education: What the Fight About Confederate Monuments Can Teach Us About Academic Activism
Nov. 1, 2017
Tall Poppy Blog: ORYX AND CRAKE by Margaret Atwood
Oct. 26, 2017
Practice Tuesday Blog: LIFE OF THE MIND INTERRUPTED Interview
Oct. 18, 2017
Tall Poppy Blog: STARSWEPT by Mary Fan
Oct. 19, 2017
BookTrib: Mental Health and Family Relationships Come Together in Yoerg’s ALL THE BEST PEOPLE
Oct. 12, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Affirmative Action and the Fight for the Status Quo
Oct. 1, 2017
KRGP Blog: MOLTEN DUSK by Karissa Laurel
Sept. 29, 2017
Underground Book Reviews: WATER by Emory Gale
Sept. 18, 2017
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Search for Stability as a Freelance Academic
Sept. 13, 2017
Women in Higher Education: When Disability Meets Sexual Assault
Sept. 1, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: Still Screaming, But Not Over Nothing
Aug. 3, 2017
Writers on Writing: I Need Coffee: Websites for Writers
Aug. 3, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Reporting Rape When You’re Not a Student
Aug. 1, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: A Memoir on Leaving the Faculty
July 6, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Indiana University Bans Players for Sexual and Domestic Violence: Is That Enough?
July 5, 2017
Writers on Writing: I Need Coffee: Writing What You Know, the Journalism and Blogging Edition
July 2, 2017
DAME Magazine: The NRA Has Declared War on America
June 29, 2017
Ms. Career Girl: (Interview) Chocolates for Life and Advice on Writing
June 27, 2017
Underground Book Reviews: DARK SONATA by F.R. Black
June 12, 2017
Tall Poppy Blog: TAMPA by Alissa Nutting
June 8, 2017
Women in Higher Education: How to Have the Accommodations Talk
June 1, 2017
Motherwell: With New Life comes a Fear of Death
May 22, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Believe Your Colleagues with Disabilities
May 1, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Don’t Accommodate Me
April 1, 2017
Underground Book Reviews: THE EMPRESS OF VENTRA by Melissa E. Beckwith
March 13, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: Bridging Academia
March 7, 2017
Paste Magazine: Our Gun Problem Is More Than a Mental Health Problem
Mar. 2, 2017
Women In Higher Education: How Making My Teaching Accessible Made My Teaching Better
March 1, 2017
Dame Magazine: If All the News Is Fake, Why Isn’t Donald Filing Libel Suits?
Feb. 20, 2017
Quartz: Trump’s disregard for the judicial system has accidentally made law school cool again
Feb. 15, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: Collegiality and Disability
Feb. 7, 2017
Women in Higher Education: The Unethical FERPA Roadblock
Feb. 1, 2017
Thoughts on Journalism: We Are All Enemies of the State
Jan. 29, 2017
Dame Magazine: Is Peter Thiel Going to Help Donald Trump Kill the Press?
Jan. 17, 2017
Women in Higher Education: When FERPA Doesn’t Protect Students
Jan. 1, 2017
Huffington Post: How to Write a Holiday Love Story
Dec. 20, 2016
Full Grown People: Reading Romance When You Were Never a Virgin
Dec. 6, 2016
Women in Higher Education: Why You Should Care About FERPA
Dec. 1, 2016
Quartz: Barring felons from voting sounds tough on crime, but it’s quietly destroying American communities
Nov. 17, 2016
Women in Higher Education: Not a Compliant Woman Colleague
Nov. 1, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: Why Attend Conferences as a Freelance Academic?
Oct. 20, 2016
Huffington Post: How to Handle Clients with Boundary Issues
Oct. 19, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: When is it time to stop working and start living?
Oct. 17, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: Are you ready for multiple income streams?
Oct. 10, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: How to keep business expenses strictly business
Oct. 3, 2016
Huffington Post: New Release Interview: Triple Love Score by Brandi Megan Granett
Sept. 20, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: How to hack a walking desk
Sept. 12, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: Solo 401(k) for the solopreneur
Sept. 5, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: How to Work from Home When You Have Kids
Aug. 29, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: Why Am I Teaching Again?
Aug. 25, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: How to set your rates
Aug. 22, 2016
Huffington Post: Women Write Los Angeles
Aug. 7, 2016
Dame Magazine: Why Should We Feel Sorry for Melania Trump?
July 20, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: The Reality of Doing What You Love
July 14, 2016
Women Fiction Writers: Writing Around Your Dialogue
June 30, 2016
Shelf Pleasure: The Tarantula in the Outhouse
June 23, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: BLOOD MOON by Angela Roquet
June 20, 2016
Writers in the Storm: Why “Write Every Day” Isn’t Always the Best Advice
June 15, 2016
KRGP Blog: ARCTIC DAWN by Karissa Laurel
June 13, 2016
Writer Unboxed: “Linked Novels”: A Series of Standalones Sans Spoilers
June 12, 2016
Quartz: Brock Turner proves America’s justice system is broken—but not how you think
June 10, 2016
We Heart Writing: How Time Compression Heightens Tension
June 7, 2016
Women Writers Women’s Books: Tips for Author Blogs
June 6, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: USE SOMEBODY by Riley Jean
May 31, 2016
Writers on Writing @ Medium: I Need Coffee: How to Create an Author Newsletter That Isn’t Terrible
May 21, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: The Secret Life of the Doctoral Student
May 19, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: CAPTIVATED BY THE WINTER KING by Mistral Dawn
May 16, 2016
Disability Stories @ Medium: Why It Stings: Disabilities & the Oscars
May 15, 2016
The Establishment: How The TSA Perpetuates Harmful Mental Health Stigmas
May 12, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: Conference Challenges for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
April 28, 2016
Huffington Post: I Need Coffee: Schedule Your Writing Life
April 25, 2016
Hello Chick Lit: On Writing Book Reviews
April 25, 2016
Huffington Post: We Believe You, Even If You’re Broken
April 15, 2016
Women in Higher Education: What Are Your Reporting Duties Under Title IX?
April 15, 2016
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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out (Essay)
April 2016
Disability Stories @ Medium: Can You Tell the Difference Between Accommodation and Accessibility?
April 12, 2016
The Professor Is In (Interview): How to Be a Fiction Editor, Part II: Novelists’ Views
April 4, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: Farewell from Pryal Style
April 4, 2016
Quartz: American lawyers have an Atticus Finch complex, and it’s killing the profession
March 31, 2016
Disability Acts: Are Your Characters Tragically Disabled or Magically Disabled?
March 31, 2016
The Toast: The Consequences of Resisting a Professor’s Advances
March 23, 2016
Huffington Post: I Need Coffee: Make the Most of Pivot Points
March 21, 2016
KRGP Blog: SYNTHETIC ILLUSIONS by Mary Fan
March 20, 2016
Dame Magazine: Hulk Hogan v. Gawker is More Than Just a Freedom of the Press Issue
March 18, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: Leaving a Legacy off the Tenure Track
March 17, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: CHASING SHADOWS by K.N. Salustro
March 14, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: Pryal Style: Launch Your Writing Career Like James Bond
March 7, 2016
Disability Acts: Write Characters with Disabilities Who Don’t Suck
March 5, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: The 50-Percent Problem
March 2, 2016
Women in Higher Education: Trigger Warnings Are a Disability Issue
March 1, 2016
The Professor Is In (Interview): Fiction Editing, Part I
Feb. 29, 2016
Quartz: Here’s how America’s confusing and outdated rape statutes of limitations are hurting victims
Feb. 22, 2016
Dame Magazine: How the Law Failed Kesha
Feb. 22, 2016
Medium: From the Atticus Finch Naysayer in the New York Times
Feb. 22, 2016
Medium: What I said to my white, 6yo son on the occasion of Tamir Rice’s killer’s non-indictment
Feb. 20, 2016
New York Times (Interview): Writers, Teachers and Lawyers React to Harper Lee’s Death
Feb. 19, 2016
Huffington Post: I Need Coffee: What Are Your Writing For?
Feb. 15, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: The Vitae Bookshelf
Feb. 15, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: STONE AND A HARD PLACE by R.L. King
Feb. 8, 2016
Tall Poppy Blog: Importance of Readers’ Reviews
Feb. 2, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: My Post-Promotion Clarity
Jan. 29, 2016
BookStar Blog: One Night (Book) Stand
Jan. 26, 2016
Huffington Post: I Need Coffee: Become Your Own Retailer, for Real
Jan. 14, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: BROKEN by Traci L. Slatton
Jan. 11, 2016
Underground Book Reviews: SWAN DECEPTION by Gledé Browne Kabongo
Dec. 28, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: It’s Not Personal. It’s Strictly Business.
Dec. 15, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: THE DEVIL’S FLOWER by Lisa Collicutt
Dec. 14, 2015
Shelf Pleasure: Three-Part Recipe for Author Blogging
Dec. 8, 2015
Huffington Post: I Need Coffee: Run Your Writing Like a Business
Dec. 4, 2015
KRGP Blog: THE JOURNAL OF VINCENT DU MAURIER by KP Ambroziak
Nov. 30, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Working When Your Brain Isn’t
Nov. 20, 2015
Huffington Post: I Need Coffee: Writing Isn’t Sexy, But It Can Pay the Bills
Nov. 12, 2015
KRGP Blog: MY SOUL IMMORTAL by Jen Printy
Nov. 9, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: What’s Your BATNA?
November 5, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: PALADIN by Sally Slater
Oct. 26, 2015
KRGP Blog: MIDNIGHT BURNING by Karissa Laurel
Oct. 20, 2015
Women Writers, Women’s Books: 5 Steps to Original Character Creation
Oct. 10, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: We Are Not Prepared for Students in Distress
Oct. 2, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: Pryal Style: Schedule Yourself: Productivity Tips for Writers
Sept. 25, 2015
Dame Magazine: Did a Jane Doe Just Deal Rape Culture a Huge Blow
Sept. 9, 2015
KRGP Blog: SACRIFICIAL LAMB CAKE by Katrina Monroe
Sept. 7, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: INCEPTIO by Alison Morton
Aug. 24, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Freelance Academics as Public Intellectuals
Aug. 14, 2015
Debutante Ball: Why Writing Is the Worst Job in the World
Aug. 1, 2015
Huffington Post: Why I Didn’t Report Being Raped In College
July 29, 2015
KRGP Blog: CAN I USE I? by Catherine Prendergast
July 28, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Can Adjuncts Be Freelancers?
July 24, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: OMEGA by S.M. Reine
July 20, 2015
Salon (Interview): Atticus Finch Was Never a Hero
July 15, 2015
KRGP Blog: ARTIFICIAL ABSOLUTES by Mary Fan
July 10, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: BROKEN ELEMENTS by Mia Marshall
June 30, 2015
Connected Academics: Never Write for Free
June 29, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Revisiting Disclosure
June 26, 2015
Shelf Pleasure: On Finding Your Place and Time
June 19, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: BLADE SONG by J.C. Daniels
June 15, 2015
Women’s Fiction Writers: From NICU to Novelist
June 15, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Speaking Up in Academe
June 9, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: DEMON BOUND by Debra Dunbar
June 1, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Thriving as a Freelance Academic
May 8, 2015
Side B Magazine: Why I Didn’t Report Being Raped in College
April 27, 2015
Huffington Post: Learning from Losing Lulu
April 22, 2015
Dame Magazine: Breaking the Mad Genius Myth
April 22, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Handling Personal Tragedies Around You
April 16, 2015
Women in Higher Education: 3 Reasons to Time-Log—Even If You Don’t Have To
April 14, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: BINDS THAT TIE by Kate Moretti
April 13, 2015
The Toast: A Mother’s Suicide and the Guilty Burden of Statistics
April 9, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Losing My Affiliation
March 13, 2015
Chronicle of Higher Education: Raped on Campus? Don’t Trust Your College to Do the Right Thing
March 2, 2015
Huffington Post: Letter from the Weird Mom at Kindergarten Orientation
Feb. 24, 2015
Underground Book Reviews: ORACLE OF PHILADELPHIA by Elizabeth Corrigan
Feb. 22, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: The University Is Just Another Client
Feb. 5, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Where Title IX Meets Title II
Jan. 15, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: When Your Student Has Been Sexually Assaulted
Jan. 14, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: What You Need to Know About Sexual Assault
Jan. 13, 2015
Women in Higher Education: Keep Your Personal Email Personal
Jan. 6, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Help! My Best Friend Is Bipolar
Jan. 2, 2015
Huffington Post: Counting Steps and Staying Sane in the Suburbs
Dec. 31, 2014
Underground Book Reviews: BONES AND ROSES by Eileen Goudge
Dec. 29, 2014
Huffington Post: 5 Tips to Improve Your Campus Rape-Reporting Experience
Dec. 12, 2014
Dame Magazine: Is the Media’s Desperation for Readers Becoming a Health Hazard?
Dec. 8, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: Rough Accommodations
Nov. 20, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: A Manifesto for the Freelance Academic
Oct. 31, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: The Trouble with the “No Matter What” Rule
Oct. 13, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: I’m Not Brave
Sept. 25, 2015
Jason’s Connection: Discussing the Stigma of Psychiatric Disabilities in Academia [Interview]
Sept. 18, 2014
The Toast: Being Counted: Reporting My Rape at a School Under Title IX Investigation
Sept. 16, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: What Do Psychiatrically Disabled Faculty Owe Our Students?
Aug. 28, 2014
Slate: The Worst Part of the Bar Exam
Aug. 7, 2014
Dorf on Law: When Failure is Not an Option
Aug. 1, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: Shattering the Madness Monolith
July 31, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: ‘She’s So Schizophrenic!’: How Not to Alienate Your Colleagues with Psychiatric Disabilities
July 9, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: Disclosure Blues: Should You Tell Colleagues About Your Mental Illness?
June 13, 2014
Hybrid Pedagogy: A Lecturer’s Almanac
Oct. 21, 2013
Bayou Magazine: Why Birds Have Wings (Fiction)
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