Essays

Reclaiming the Ancient Roots of Ecological Citizenship
Minding Nature The Center for Humans & Nature, Summer 2020

Our public lands don’t diminish individual freedom; they secure it
Los Angeles Times, 24 November 2019 (op-ed)

It Is Solved by Walking
High Country News, May 2019

Uncertain Weather
Orion, March/April 2017 (hard copy only)

The Caretakers
Proximity, December 2016

One Woman’s Meat​
Tin House ​(Open Bar blog), June 2016​

Follow Your Feet
Orion, March/April 2016

Writ in Water (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Full Grown People, October 2015​

The Gap Year
Full Grown People Love + Sex anthology (hard copy only)

The Hairbrush: Depository of Your Intimate Self
The Atlantic Object Lessons series, December 2015

The Sino-Soviet Connection​
Lucky Peach​, May 2015

Sips of Air
Full Grown People, February 2015

Slaughterhouse Farce​
Paste, January 2015

New Roots
Orion, March-April 2015 (hard copy only)

When I wasn’t paying attention, my pregnancy almost killed me
BuzzFeed, September 2014

What’s in a Name
The Manifest-Station, August 2014

​Competence Lost
The Jabberwock Review, Winter 2014 (hard copy only)

Someone Stole Home (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Full Grown People, October 2013
Republished in Best of Full Grown People anthology, October 2014​​

Words Will Never Hurt Me
Brain, Child, Summer 2012 (hard copy only)

Self Preservation
Brain, Child, Summer 2011

Permanent Ways: The Midnight Train to Moscow
The Walrus, June 2007​

Beacon Hill Charm (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
​The Jabberwock Review, Fall 2006 (hard copy only)​​