Selected Writing: Essays, Interviews, Features and More

  • Los Angeles Review of Books, Personal essay about navigating San Francisco’s graveyards, literal and metaphorical

  • Oprah Daily: Interview with Michelle Obama in which she tells me it’s okay to replace morning news podcasts with trashy audiobooks

  • Oprah Daily: Interview with Cher in which she gives me advice on staying friends with an ex—even one you had to sue for involuntary servitude…

  • 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

  • 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

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