Creative Nonfiction Essays

The Rumpus
Picking Up Bones

Sierra Magazine
How I Learned to Calm Down and Love Camping

The New York Times Magazine
How Play-Doh Saved Me From My Despair in Grad School

The New York Times
(Modern Love)
A Heart Filled With Love, Not Stuff
Lithub: “How to Write an Obituary For Your Mother”
Sinostories Anthology: “About Face” (print only)
Kearny Street Workshop: “Don’t worry about taking space“
The Atlantic: My Mother Deserved to Die Comfortably
Artist Interviews
The Adroit Journal: A Conversation with Alan Chazaro on These Spaceships Weren’t Built For Us (Tia Chucha Press, 2026)
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: Conversation with Mariya Zilberman
Palette Poetry: If These Covers Could Talk (interview with cover designer Hilary Steinberg)
Find more of my nonfiction writing, including content marketing work and science journalism, in my freelance writing portfolio here.