Select Publications
“Goodbye to That Place,” essay for Off Assignment, forthcoming.
“Men Paid Me To Eat,” story featured in The Offing 10-Year Anniversary Anthology, June 2025.
“The Witches,” essay for anthology Witch, edited by Michelle Tea, Dopamine Books/Semiotex(e), April 2025.
“Voice Does the Work,” craft essay on teaching voice for AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle, February 2025.
“Smother Me,” essay anthologized in Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves, Catapult Books, July 2022.
“Getting Sober Again,” essay for Catapult, June 2022.
“Are You Having Sex?,” essay for Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Update Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic for a New Era, Harper Perennial, May 2022.
“For a Good Time, Call,” essay for Guernica, September 2020.
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- Featured in The Rumpus’ Weekly Essay Roundup
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- Featured in Narratively’s Memoir Mondays
“Snowbound,” essay for Brevity, September 2019.
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- Notable essay in Best American Essays 2020
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- Republished by Creative Nonfiction in Sunday Shorts
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- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“Smother Me,” essay for Catapult, June 2019.
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- Featured in The Rumpus’ Weekly Essay Roundup
“Men Paid Me To Eat,” fiction for The Offing, June 2019.
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- Chosen for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2020
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- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
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- Interview about the story for The Offing
“Fat Girl Cries Herself To Sleep At Night,” essay for Longreads, October 2018.
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- Notable essay in Best American Essays 2019
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- Featured in The Rumpus’ Weekly Essay Roundup
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- Featured in Narratively’s Memoir Mondays
“A New Day Has Come,” book review of Radical Hope for The Miami Rail, June 2017.
“Fly,” fiction for Paper Darts, May 2017.
“Second Time’s the Charm,” essay on rejection for The MFA Years, February 2017.
“The MFA, Money, and Diversity,” essay for the MFA Years, 2017
“And Eat It Too,” micro nonfiction for The Rattling Wall & Pen Center USA’s post-election anthology, Only Light Can Do That, December 2016.
“The Ibis and the Storm,” essay for Entropy, October 2016.
“Alabama, an Introduction,” essay for The MFA Years, 2016.
Honors
The Offing 10-Year Anniversary Anthology, 2025
Letras Boricuas Fellow, Mellon Foundation & Flamboyan Foundation Arts Fund, 2022
Rona Jaffe Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, CNF w/ Reyna Grande, 2021
Entropy Mag’s Best Online Articles & Essays, 2020
Notable, Best American Essays, 2020
Hedgebrook Writers Residency, 2020 (postponed to 2022)
Best Small Fictions, 2020
Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers Conference Fellow (at ASU), 2020
Scholar, Tin House Craft Intensive, CNF w/ T Kira Madden, 2019
Notable – Best American Essays, 2019
Entropy Magazine’s Best Online Articles & Essays, 2019
Tin House Summer Workshop, CNF w/ Michelle Tea, 2019
Tin House Winter Workshop, CNF w/ Hanif Abdurraqib, 2019
Entropy Magazine’s Best Online Articles & Essays, 2018
VONA/Voices Workshop Fellow, University of Miami, 2016
Pen America Emerging Voices Fellow, Fiction, 2016
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