Prose

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 Focal Point cover designer Hilary Steinberg)

Find more of my nonfiction writing, including content marketing work and science journalism, in my freelance writing portfolio here.