“I Am Cat Lady”
Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2024)
November 2024
“To Catch a Sunset”
The American Scholar (Summer 2024)
July 2024
“Big Break: A Multiple-Choice Test”
Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts (Issue 15)
January 2023
“Because Mid-Meal, My Mother Says ‘Now Don’t Write About This’; Or, The Tyranny Of We”
Hobart Online
December 2021
“The Power of Claiming My Identity as a Disabled Writer”
LitHub
February 2021
“Calculated Risks”
Virginia Quarterly Review
Winter 2018
[Read online / Purchase the print issue]
“Pioneers of the Digital Trail”
Barrelhouse
Issue 18 / Summer 2018
“For a Member of the Creative Class, Space Is a Luxury Just Out of Reach”
Better Life Lab at Slate
Jun / July 2016
“Deep in the Heart”
Gluten Free & More
Jun / July 2016
[Read “Seasoned with Love,” Dec / Jan 2014]
“Goddamn Tupelo”
Creative Nonfiction
Spring 2013 / Issue #48, “Southern Sin”
“Art of the Bluff”
The Washington Post Magazine
July 2008 / Part of the “XX Files”