Personal Essays

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• Washington Post’s The Lily — “I grew up valuing purity and virginity. Today, it’s left me with feelings of shame,” 2018
  • Syndicated in the Chicago Tribune.
• Tin House —“On Anna Maria Ortese’s The Iguana,” in Tin House vol. 20, num. 1
• Slate — “The Lease Makes the Lady,” 2018
• Glamour — “I’m 27 and Living With Narcolepsy—and It’s Not a Joke,” 2018
• Healthline — “The Life-Changing Magic of Accepting There Will Always Be a Mess“
• Electric Literature, “My Old Man and the Sea,” 2017
• New York Magazine’s Science of Us —
  • “Testing High Standards After a Lifetime of Settling,” 2018
  • “Dating Long-Distance Means Learning a New Way to Fight,” 2017
• Catapult Story, “Teaching in Trumpland,” 2017
• Ravishly, “Can’t Buy Me Love: Why I Stopped Waiting For Men To Buy Me Jewelry,” 2018
• Book Riot, “Thank an English Teacher,” 2017
• Obra/Artifact:
  • “Fahrenheit 2017,” 2017
  • “Implications: On Writing Mental Illness or Why Representation Matters,” 2016
  • “Lines of Sight,” 2016