essays. articles. interviews & criticism.

Terra Incognita // The Rumpus (2023)
—featured in Memoir Monday’s roundup of “the best personal essays from around the web”

Sketching toward alternate openings in the field // Cultural Anthropology (2020)

Writing an illness story that rejects the inspirational healing narrative: An interview with Jacqueline Alnes // Electric Literature (2024)

A love language for the menstruating body: Chloe Caldwell’s The Red Zone // The Rumpus (2022)

Storytelling otherwise: A review of Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival // cultural anthropology (2019)

Corinne Sharlet :: Creativity as Psychic Survival / The Liminal

Courtney Liu :: Flow, Body Image & Dance / The Liminal

Meghan McDonough :: Quarantine Dreams & New Openings for Storytelling / The Liminal

Hunter Noack :: Classical Piano in the Wild / The Liminal

The Liminal / Substack

writer’s corner

An assemblage of inspirations and favourites

Maggie Nelson, Sheila Heti, Zadie Smith, Leslie Jamison, Eula Biss, Melissa Febos, Jia Tolentino, Rachel Cusk, Rebecca Solnit, Lidia Yuknavitch, Joan Didion
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Upstream by Mary Oliver
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Thresholds
Lit Up
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Here to Save You
Between the Covers
Slow Stories
The Isolation Journals by Suleika Jaouad
Monday Monday by Marlee Grace
Craft Talk by Jami Attenberg
Culture Study by Anne Helen Peterson
Write What by Stephanie Danler
Savour by Alice Vincent
Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette
Human Stuff by Lisa Olivera
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Body Work by Melissa Febos
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick
My Trade is Mystery by Carl Phillips