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Other Writing

Short Fiction

Out, Out,” Miracle Monocle, Issue 20, Spring 2023 [Winner of the Calvino Prize]
"Heart of Hearts," The Adroit Journal, Issue 22, August 2017
"Girls Not Goblins Not Girls," No Tokens, Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2017
"Better Homes," Colorado Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, Fall 2016, and Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Issue 238, Winter 2016
"My Past and Future Selves Wait Quietly on the Stairs," Sonora Review, Issue 70, Fall 2016
"Plan of the Peak Cavern," Territory, Issue 2, Summer 2016
"A Clean Egg," Bodega, Issue 49, September 2016
"Things That Belong in the Body of Eleanor," Sycamore Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, Fall 2015
"A Hundred Ways to Do it Wrong," Indiana Review, Vol. 37, No. 1, Summer 2015
"Olive," Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue, Spring 2015


Nonfiction and Criticism

Essays, reviews, and other works of nonfiction and criticism have appeared in The Washington Post, Literary Hub, The Italian Review,  The Atlantic , FlavorwireRefinery29NYLONNYLON GuysSPIN, and American Songwriter. 

Some favorites:

Meditation on Sale,” The Italian Review, 2021
"Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness is accidentally timely but also timeless,” The Washington Post, 2020
"The Life-Changing Magic of 10 Things I Hate About You,” Literary Hub, 2019
"Why is Bad Behavior so good?," Literary Hub, 2018
"Does The Virgin Suicides Hold Up 25 Years Later?," Literary Hub, 2018
"Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study," Literary Hub, 2018
"A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time," Literary Hub, 2017
"Call Me By Your Name is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority," Literary Hub, 2017
"Women Can Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation Too," Literary Hub, 2017
"The Transgressive Pleasure of the Literary Murderess," Literary Hub, 2017
"The Handmaid's Tale Adapts More Than The Novel: Here is America," Literary Hub, 2017
"How Many Books Will You Read Before You Die?," Literary Hub, 2017
"Girl Canon: 50 Essential Books About the Female Experience," Flavorwire, 2015
"Rachel Kushner's Literary Success Has Nothing to Do With Her Gender," Flavorwire, 2013