Selected Writing: Essays, Features etc.

  • The Atlantic: Reported feature on the AI companies trying to make grief obsolete.

  • 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 going on a cruise designed for people twice my age, discovering what “wellness” really means in Cabo, skiing amidst climate catastrophe in Park City, and finally learning to chill in 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 mythologizing a burning California.

  • Oprah Daily: Feature story on young marriage as a pandemic trauma response

  • Oprah Daily: Essay on pop culture and teen girl nostalgia

  • Oprah Daily: Case against casual friendship breakups

  • Oprah Daily: Reported essay on 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

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