Selected Work and Recognition

Books

Leave: A Postpartum Account | Autofocus Books, 2025

Short Fiction

The Rock is Not a Rock | TriQuarterly, 2023

Ladies, Look Alive | The Adroit Journal, 2022

Our Lady of Divine Hawaiian Sweet Rolls | CRAFT, 2021

Talking to Your Kids About Astronomical Phenomena | Catapult, 2019

No longer available online but contact me if you want a PDF

You Go, I’ll Watch | Maudlin House, 2019

The World is Dark and Full of Stars | Pidgeonholes, 2019

There Will Be a Reconciliation | Lost Balloon, 2019

We Go Through It | Pigeon Pages, 2018

Bear | Okay Donkey, 2018

Good Egg | Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2018

Neighbors | Wigleaf, 2018

No Cymbals, No Trumpets | (b)OINK, 2017

Tank Upkeep | American Chordata, 2017

Reviews & Interviews

To Tell the Human Story: Marie-Helene Bertino’s “Beautyland” | Chicago Review of Books, 2024

Exquisite Infatuation in “Mrs. S” | Chicago Review of Books, 2023

The World Splits Open in “In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation” | Chicago Review of Books, 2023

“I Had to Have a Different America:” An Interview with Catherine Lacey about “Biography of X” | Chicago Review of Books, 2023

Messy and Honest is My Memoir M.O.: Michelle Tea's Memoir "Knocking Myself Up" is a Battle Against How Straight, White, and Bougie the Baby World Is | Electric Literature, 2022

AITA: A Conversation About Jerks with Sara Lippmann | Barrelhouse, 2022

Is the Patriarchy Making Teenage Girls Sick? Clare Beams, Author of "The Illness Lesson," on Hysteria at a 19th Century All-Girls Boarding School | Electric Literature, 2020

Woman is Not Born, Woman Is Made: Sue Rainsford on Subverting the Gendered Tropes of Women's Sex, Illness, and Healing | Electric Literature, 2020

Letting Go: Jaclyn Gilbert on her Debut Novel, Late Air | Fiction Writers Review, 2018

Corey Camperchioli on “Femme” the Film and Internalized Misogyny | Posture, 2018

Honors

Other Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories 2024 | 2024

Finalist, 1729 Book Prize in Prose | 2023

Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship Honorable Mention | 2021

Tin House Summer Workshop | 2021

CRIT Workshop | 2019

Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2019 | 2019

Vermont Studio Center Residency | 2018

Pushcart Prize Nominee | 2017 & 2019

Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Honorable Mention | 2016

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference | 2016