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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