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!
selected essays
Body All The Way Down // THE RUMPUS (2024)
—featured in Memoir Monday’s roundup of “the best personal essays from around the web”
To the Anesthesiologist // OFF ASSIGNMENT’s “Letter to a Stranger” (2024)
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)
book projects
THE CONNECTOR: Experimental Neuroprosthetics and the Making of a Domestic Lived Science (under contract with Duke University Press)
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
writer’s corner
An assemblage of inspirations and favourites
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Maggie Nelson, Sheila Heti, Zadie Smith, Leslie Jamison, Eula Biss, Melissa Febos, Jia Tolentino, Rachel Cusk, Rebecca Solnit, Lidia Yuknavitch, Joan Didion
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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