ESSAYS
The New York Times
"The summer I turned 11, we buried two wild birds and we did not bury my great-grandmother. We did not bury my great-grandmother because she had donated her body to science."
Catapult
“The first time I sneaked into a bell tower, I was fourteen years old.”
Hippocampus
The Broken Bird
2019
2019
“On the day you kissed me for the first time, a sparrow ate from my hand in the green respite of Central Park.”
BUST
“The woman drew a sketch on a piece of paper that looked like a giant grapefruit spoon, and she claimed this was one of the instruments that an abortionist would use to cut the baby out of me.”
Audubon
News Reporting and Writing
2015-2017
2015-2017
News articles included how baby puffins' diets are changing amid warming oceans, a school growing a native prairie in Minnesota, vineyards in the Pacific Northwest enlisting barn owls for rodent control, and a chalk art flash mob to help young herons and egrets falling from trees in Oakland.
"During World War II, they volunteered to be plane spotters near the coast. They had a little field guide of what German planes looked like, and they volunteered to look for these planes using their birding skills."
STORIES
Juked
The Mimosa Tree
2020
2020
"The woman said, I wish I would have a child as dark as the night and as bright as the moon, and she was so weary that she lay down and fell asleep right there, her cheek pressed against the grass, her arms wrapped around herself as the moon and stars kept watch."
Fourteen Hills
“Since his surgery, Dad remembered numbers, historical facts, the name of my prom date, where he and Mom went on vacation in 1979, but he couldn't remember anything that had happened in the last year.”
Jellyfish Review
The Gospel According to Heather's LiveJournal
2019
"And it came to pass in the year 1999, that there went out a decree from the National Retail Association that all the world should do their Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa shopping."
2019
"And it came to pass in the year 1999, that there went out a decree from the National Retail Association that all the world should do their Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa shopping."
Cheap Pop
“And lo, my neon lamps will burn as bright as rubies. They will burn 24/7/365. I am the refuge of all exiles, welcoming you with doors that swing open at your touch.”
Fiction Southeast
“Memory is all we have left—our crops withered, our goats long dead, the village surrounded by a desert like an open mouth.”
Soaring Penguin Press
"The bottom of the ocean is basically another galaxy. No one knows how big giant squids can get, or where whale sharks have their babies."
Hobart
The Red Crown
2015
2015
“Once, all foxes were silver. The queen of the foxes had a coat that shone like the trees after an ice storm.”
POEMS
The Offing
"I am spinning on a carousel tied to the back of a wooden horse with its teeth maniacally bared.
I am falling through the heart of a dying star."
I am falling through the heart of a dying star."
HUMOR
The Belladonna
"I Only Have Eyes For You (Sorry, I Was in a Rush and That's All I Could Get at the Morgue)"