Personal Essays


“I Am Cat Lady”

Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2024)

November 2024

[Read online]


“To Catch a Sunset”

The American Scholar (Summer 2024)

July 2024

[Read online]


“Big Break: A Multiple-Choice Test”

Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts (Issue 15)

January 2023

[Read online]


 

“Because Mid-Meal, My Mother Says ‘Now Don’t Write About This’; Or, The Tyranny Of We”

Hobart Online

December 2021

[Read online]


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“The Power of Claiming My Identity as a Disabled Writer”

LitHub

February 2021

[Read online]


 

“Calculated Risks”

Virginia Quarterly Review

Winter 2018

[Read online / Purchase the print issue]


“Pioneers of the Digital Trail”

Barrelhouse

Issue 18 / Summer 2018

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“For a Member of the Creative Class, Space Is a Luxury Just Out of Reach”

Better Life Lab at Slate

Jun / July 2016

[Read the essay]


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“Deep in the Heart”

Gluten Free & More

Jun / July 2016

[Read the essay]

[Read “Seasoned with Love,” Dec / Jan 2014]


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“Goddamn Tupelo”

Creative Nonfiction

Spring 2013 / Issue #48, “Southern Sin”

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“Art of the Bluff”

The Washington Post Magazine

July 2008 / Part of the “XX Files”

[Read the essay]

[Read “The Close Call,” August 2008]