Selected Nonfiction

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Outside Magazine: The Misunderstood Python Hunters Saving the Everglades

For National Geographic: The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here’s why.

For Grist & The Guardian — A changing tide: Florida’s summer of slime turned its politics upside down.

For Medium’s Power Issue: Janet Reno’s Sister Owes a Florida Developer $4 Million. She Has Zero Intention of Paying.

Since When Did Animals Become Synonymous with Our Grief, Literary Hub

Selected Publications:

• Outside – The Snake That Ate the Everglades
• National Geographic – The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here’s why.
• One Zero — The World’s Smartphones Are Filled With Gold. That’s a Problem.
• The Guardian — “How Florida’s summer of slime turned Republicans into eco-warriors,” 2019
• The Atlantic’s CityLab — “Can Florida’s Toxic Algae Be Stopped?” 2018
  • “Why Planned Oil Drilling in the Everglades Has Florida Cities Worried,” 2019
  • “Disney World’s Literal Nuclear Option, Explained,” 2019
  • “Atlanta’s Food Forest Will Provide Fresh Fruit, Nuts, and Herbs to Forage,” 2019
• Grist — “A changing tide: Florida’s summer of slime turned its politics upside down,” 2019
• Medium Magazine Feature — “Janet Reno’s Sister Owes a Florida Developer $5 Million. She Has Zero Intention of Paying.” 2018
• Civil Eats
  •  “Florida’s Answer to Invasive Lionfish: If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em.”
    • Syndicated in Salon.
• Medium — “Please Stop Telling Poor People to Leave Their Homes,” 2018
• Sierra Magazine — “Waterkeepers Fight to Save Florida from Toxic Algae,” 2018
• Pacific Standard — “Trash Islands Are Still Taking Over the Ocean at an Alarming Rate,” 2018
  • “How to Stop Toxic Algae from Overwhelming Florida’s Largest Lake,” 2018
• GOOD — “This Woman-led Conservation Team Is Protecting Giant Gentle Manta Rays,” 2018
• Washington Post — “The deadliest period of a hurricane? After it’s over,” 2017

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Science & the Environment

• Medium Magazine Feature — “Janet Reno’s Sister Owes a Florida Developer $5 Million. She Has Zero Intention of Paying.” 2018
• Civil Eats
  •  “Florida’s Answer to Invasive Lionfish: If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em.”
    • Syndicated in Salon.
• Medium — “Please Stop Telling Poor People to Leave Their Homes,” 2018
• The Atlantic’s CityLab — “Can Florida’s Toxic Algae Be Stopped?” 2018
• Sierra Magazine — “Waterkeepers Fight to Save Florida from Toxic Algae,” 2018
• Pacific Standard — “Trash Islands Are Still Taking Over the Ocean at an Alarming Rate,” 2018
  • “How to Stop Toxic Algae from Overwhelming Florida’s Largest Lake,” 2018
• GOOD — “This Woman-led Conservation Team Is Protecting Giant Gentle Manta Rays,” 2018
• Glamour — “I’m 27 and Living With Narcolepsy—and It’s Not a Joke,” 2018
  • Syndicated on Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/apos-m-27-living-narcolepsy-133000510.html
• Washington Post — “The deadliest period of a hurricane? After it’s over,” 2017
  • Charleston Post and Courier – “Hurricane recovery can be more deadly than the storm,” 2017
  • Spartanburg Herald-Journal – “Deadliest period of a hurricane can be its aftermath”
  • Kankakee Daily Journal – “Deadliest period of a hurricane? After”
  • The Daily Gazette  – “The deadliest period of a hurricane? After it’s over“
• 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
• Earth Island Journal — “Lives on the Vulnerable Edge,” 2018
• Narratively — “Scott McLeod Missed His Chance to Go to the Moon, but He Landed the Love of His Life,” 2017
• Field Service Digital: “The Big Fix That Launched Apollo 11 to the Moon,” 2019
• Narratively: “Scott McLeod Missed His Chance to Go to the Moon, but He Landed the Love of His Life,” 2017

Politics

• Daily Kos:
  • “Arming teachers will push students of color out of schools,” 2019
  • “How the college admissions process illuminates the reality of the American caste system,” 2019
  • “Power-grab ’em by the Constitution: Trump’s national emergency diverts money from real disasters,” 2019
• Pressland: “On the Border,” 2019
• Grist — A changing tide: Florida’s summer of slime turned its politics upside down. 2019
• Medium Magazine Feature — “Janet Reno’s Sister Owes a Florida Developer $5 Million. She Has Zero Intention of Paying.” 2018
• Medium Magazine Feature — “Everything That Could Go Wrong When You Try to Vote,” 2018

Personal

• 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

Literature & Culture

• Goodreads:
  • (And other 2019-2020 interviews)
  • Interview with Karen Thompson Walker, 2019
  • Interview with Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2019
  • Interview with Mary Beth Keane, 2019
• Broadly/VICE —“Why America Is So Obsessed with Dead Girls,” 2018
• Tin House — “On Anna Maria Ortese’s The Iguana,” in Tin House vol. 20, num. 1
• Real Simple —
  • “15 Books Recommended by Your Favorite Celebrities,” 2018
  • “How to Start a Book Club That Will Take Off,” 2018
  • “9 Book Club Suggestions Everyone in Your Group Will Want to Talk About,” 2018
  • “9 Books that Will Make Your Plane Ride Go Faster,” 2018
  • “5 Surprisingly Great Freebies You Can Get With Your Library Card,” 2018
• Travel + Leisure —  “These 9 Books Will Take the Stress Out of Your Next Flight,” 2018
• Literary Hub —
  • Everyone Misunderstands the Point of Fight Club
  • How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch
  • How Winona Ryder Took Girl, Interrupted From Page to Screen
  • “The CIA Scheme That Brought Dr. Zhivago to the World,” 2019
  • “Digging into the Queer Subtext of My Fair Lady,” 2019
  • “Silent Spring Is More than a Scientific Landmark: It’s Literature,” 2018
• Electric Literature—
  • Interview with Anne Lamott, 2018
  • “My Old Man and the Sea,” 2017
• Obra/Artifact — “Fahrenheit 2017” 2017
• Book Riot—
  • “The Leader of a Religious Group Burned These LGBTQ Books — Let’s Buy Them!“
  • “The 2018 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction,” 2018
  • “The 2018 National Book Award Longlist for Nonfiction,” 2018
  • “The 2018 National Book Award Longlist for Poetry,” 2018
  • “23 Resistance Poems to Express Your Rage,” 2018
  • “Police Officers Challenge Books on South Carolina Summer Reading List,” 2018
  • “Your Must-Read Book Club Suggestions for 2018,” 2018
  • “Junot Diaz Accused of #MeToo Misconduct,” 2018
  • “Book Riot’s Favorite Shakespearean Insults,” 2018
  • “Announcing the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning Books,” 2018
  • “A Gentleman in Moscow to Get TV Adaptation Starring Kenneth Branaugh,” 2018
  • “Anita Shreve, Author of The Pilot’s Wife, Passes Away at 71,” 2018
  • “13 Reasons Why to Air Advisory Before Each Season,” 2018
  • “John Oliver Trolls Mike Pence with Children’s Book that Hits Best-Seller List,” 2018
  • “Reading Pathways: Where to Start with George Saunders,” 2018
  • “How to Read Poetry,” 2018
  • “New York Teacher Banned from Teaching the Harlem Renaissance,” 2018
  • “Changes to Goodreads Giveaways Shrink the Number of Books Available,” 2018
  • “5 Tips to Help You Reach Your Reading Challenge Goal This Year,” 2017
  • “How to Become an Audiobook Narrator,” 2017
  • “30 Books by Florida Authors Affected by Hurricane Irma,” 2017
  • “How to Start a Book Club that Doesn’t Suck,” 2017
  • “An Open Letter to People Who Don’t Think They Need to Read Diversely,” 2017
  • “Literary Tourism: Orlando, Florida,” 2017
  • “Environmental Fiction: A Reading List to Save the World,” 2017
  • “10 Hilarious Fiction Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip,” 2017
  • “10 Hilarious Nonfiction Audiobooks to Power Your Summer Road Trip,” 2017
  • “Denis Johnson Died at 67: Eulogy for an Inspiration,” 2017
  • “Thank an English Teacher,” 2017
  • “Non-Fluffy Beach Reads to Get You Ready for Summer,” 2017

Lifestyle & Travel

• Apartment Therapy

  • “How I Bought a Home on My $37K Teacher’s Salary,” 2018

  • “Experts Say to Never Use These Words When Selling Your Home,” 2018

• Real Simple —
  • “How to Raise a Reader, According to Experts and Parents,” 2018
  • “15 Books Recommended by Your Favorite Celebrities,” 2018
  • “How to Start a Book Club That Will Take Off,” 2018
  • “9 Book Club Suggestions Everyone in Your Group Will Want to Talk About,” 2018
  • “9 Books that Will Make Your Plane Ride Go Faster,” 2018
  • “5 Surprisingly Great Freebies You Can Get With Your Library Card,” 2018
• Travel + Leisure

  • “These 9 Books Will Take the Stress Out of Your Next Flight,” 2018

Business

• Apartment Therapy

  • “How I Bought a Home on My $37K Teacher’s Salary,” 2018

  • “Experts Say to Never Use These Words When Selling Your Home,” 2018

• Airport Revenue News, Print:
  • “Experiencing Life in HEL,” February 2018
  • “Recombobulation,” March 2018
  • “Air Hollywood Brings the Magic of Flight to the Movies,” April 2018
• Airport Revenue News, Digital (selected): View in Google Drive.
• SWAAY
  • “Yes, We Need Men to Change for the #MeToo Movement to Work,” 2018
•  Medium
  • “My Writing Process: From Pitch to Final Draft,” 2017
  • “How to Get Reviews for Your Novel,” 2018

Content Writing

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