PUBLICATIONS | Words in the Wild
Like a Deer in the Dark / Literary Mama
Creative nonfiction about a trip to Illinois. Published in the July/August 2025 issue of Literary Mama. | Read here
I’m here because I should be, not because I want to be. Love and duty and guilt are all bound up in a Gordian knot. Every fiber so tightly enmeshed, I can hardly parse one strand from the other. I’m either going to cry or burst out of my skin.
Take the Fruit / An Anthology of Religious Trauma
My essay “With Fear and Trembling” is published in this collection of stories about surviving high control religions. The book is edited by Stina French & Erica Hoffmeister; published by Listen to Your Skin Press, November 2024 | Purchase here
Together, we opened our mouths to sing of our blessed assurance, to savor that foretaste of glory divine. But shivering just beneath the blare of the organ, the laborious congregational Hallelujahs, I could feel the heat of the hellfire—banked and ready to burn.
Homework ‘Til Your Dying Day / Zero Readers
A craft essay about how writers are never done writing.
Published in September 2024 | Read here
You love writing. You hate it. You can’t stop. You can’t get started. You fear the blank page. You crave it. You wish it were over. You can’t wait to begin.
It doesn’t matter how old you are, or young, when you first take up a pen or a keyboard. Once you’ve set ink to paper and blundered your way into magic, you cannot lay the words to rest. There will always be something more you could write.
Zero Readers / Issue 7 / Fall 2024
Rubies / poem
Published March 2024 in the poetry anthology Ache: The Body’s Experience of Religion, from Flipped Mitten Press | Purchase here
No More Shame / essay
Published June 2023 in the lit mag Quail Bell Magazine | Read here
Various / essays
There Is Always Someone Who Resists _ Portugal Calling on Medium _ March 2025
To Be or To Be _ A-Culturated on Medium _ February 2025
Only When It’s Happening to You _ Engage on Medium _ November 2024
The Thing with Teeth _ Engage on Medium _ October 2024
In the Depths of the Doldrums _ Engage on Medium _ August 2024
Postcards from America _ Engage on Medium _ August 2024
My Mother Says She Was a Zookeeper _ The Narrative Arc on Medium _ June 2024
The Arrogance of the English Language _ A-Culturated on Medium _ May 2024
What Are We Running From? _ A-Culturated on Medium _ May 2024
The Opposite of Nomad _ A-Culturated on Medium _ April 2024
Is AI Writing Any Good? _ Design, or Be Designed on Medium _ June 2023
The Thing About Visitors _ Portugal Living Magazine _ June 2023
The Importance of Sponsoring Women of Color _ Design, or Be Designed on Medium _ March 2023
Life After a Layoff _ Design, or Be Designed on Medium _ February 2023
Same Song, Different Verse _ Portugal Living Magazine _ August 2022
The Honeymoon Effect _ Relish Portugal _ July 2021
Put It In Your Own Words: How to Find Your Voice and Set It Free _ Dropbox Design _ May 2020
Designing with Letters _ Dropbox Design _ April 2020
101,572 Words in 30 Days _ Dropbox Design _ March 2020
Elasticine, Abattoir, Die Pretty, Tempest, and Alice Is My Middle Name _ Tupelo Quarterly _ November 2019
Permission to Speak _ Dropbox Design _ September 2019
Personal Publications / Places I write regularly
The Long Scrawl _ Substack
she’s a word nerd _ Medium