Selected Writing: Essays, Features etc.
Los Angeles Review of Books, Reported essay on the cultural history and current debates over Californian eucalyptus and wildfires.
Los Angeles Review of Books, Personal essay about navigating San Francisco’s graveyards, literal and metaphorical
Electric Literature: A (very) personal essay about control and a weird summer I spent interning at a mental hospital as a preteen. TW: eating disorders, grooming.
Oprah Daily, travel features on Park City and Boca Raton.
The Atlantic: Personal essay on the strange beauty of grieving on the internet
The Atlantic: Feature story on suicide barriers and why individual suffering should be a collective, structural problem
Hyperallergic: Opinion on why the Vessel at Hudson Yards should become an (official) memorial
The Los Angeles Review: Essay on the threat of California mythology and wildfires
Oprah Daily: feature story on young marriage as a pandemic trauma response
Oprah Daily: Essay on Toni Morrison’s food writing
Oprah Daily: Jesmyn Ward on divinity and Let Us Descend
Oprah Daily: Nathan Hill’s Wellness and the Real History of Love Potions
Oprah Daily: Abraham Verghese and the inspiration for The Covenant of Water
Oprah Daily: Essay on pop culture and teen girl nostalgia
Oprah Daily: Case against casual friendship breakups
Oprah Daily: Journalistic look at why the dirty talk on HBO’s The Idol was so damn bad—and how we can do better
AGNI: A lyric essay about San Francisco, tiger attacks, and mourning my brother. Published in print Issue 95. Reprinted here with permission
Los Angeles Review, braided essay about Californian mythology and wildfires.
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