Select Personal and Craft Essays

“The Go-Go Days Are Gone-Gone” (I Have That on Vinyl)

“I Let an App Manage My Chronic Pain for 7 Months Straight” (PS)

“Panic at the Ketamine Clinic” (The Manifest-Station)

“I Wish I Had Never Lived with My Boyfriend Before Marriage” (Buzzfeed)

“A Graveyard of Pitches” (Brevity)

“Chicago Style Guide's 18th Edition Shows How Language Evolves” (Peacock Proud Press)

“The Importance of Show and Tell in Memoir” (Peacock Proud Press)

“Healing a Pulverized Heart: Why I Write Nonfiction” (Brevity)

“Starter Marriage” (The Coachella Review)

“A Writer's Pact with Readers” (Brevity)

“100 Agents” (Brevity)

“Becoming a Brave Artist” (The Manifest-Station)

“What Perimenopause Is Like During a Pandemic” (The HerStories Project)

“Writing-Adjacent Activities as Diversion Tactics” (Brevity)

“Living in Post-Manuscript Limbo” (Brevity)

“Transforming an Essay Collection into a Memoir” (Brevity)

“Before the Internet, Love Was Simpler” (Ravishly)

“I’m Not an Extrovert—and That Makes It Harder to Find Love” (The Washington Post)

“A Late Bloomer’s Guide to Publishing” (Black Fox Literary Magazine)

“Independent Woman Still Wants the Right Man” (The Manifest-Station)

“Seeking Flings—Then Giving Them Up” (Luna Luna Magazine)

“Becoming a Writer in Due Time” (Brevity)

“It’s Still Me” (Black Fox Literary Magazine)

“The Way Couples Deal with Strippers Might Matter” (Bustle)

“29 Things Only Long Beach Natives Understand” (Bustle)

“Philosophy of Hamilton” (Book Lovers)