books. essays. articles. interviews & criticism.

talking about writing...

In this conversation with Hillary Barnes Martinez and BJ Williams on their podcast, Writing with Friends, we discuss:

  • writing craft and process

  • publication, rejection, and trying (again, and again)

  • the relationship between academic writing and creative nonfiction

  • motherhood and writing

  • the importance of literary community

  • advice for aspiring writers

…and much more!

 

book

 
 

THE CONNECTOR: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics // Duke University Press (May 2026)

selected essays

To the Anesthesiologist // OFF ASSIGNMENT (2024)
— nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays

Body All The Way Down // THE RUMPUS (2024)
—featured in Memoir Monday’s roundup of “the best personal essays from around the web”

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

Big Sky // WASHINGTON SQUARE REVIEW (2024)

Shockwave // Entropy Magazine (2021)

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

reviews, interviews, & criticism

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)

portraits

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

newsletter

THE LIMINAL / Substack

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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, Yiyun Li

  • 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

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