writing

Here’s a selection of my personal essays and creative nonfiction. View my health content writing here.

• I Changed My Name for Fun, But It Made People Suspicious of Me, TODAY, 2023

• The Purported Magic of Broccolini, Aquifer: The Florida Review at UCF Online, 2023

• Sundog at My Window on a Midwestern Winter’s Afternoon, Your Impossible Voice, 2023

• If You Decide to Flirt With a Stranger, New York Times, Tiny Love Story, 2022

• My First Cell Phone: Black Motorola Startak, Have Has Had, 2019

• Navigating Graduate School While Managing a Chronic Illness, Inside Higher Ed, 2018

• #ShareYourRejection: I Received 330 Writing Rejections in One Year, and I’m So Happy About It, Brevity, 2018

• Fibromyalgia, Me, and Doris Lee, Hawai’i Review (edition 87, book 2), 2017

• Fibromyalgia: Three Instances Of, Luna Luna Magazine, 2017

• My Body Gossip Column, Proximity, 2016

• I Took Down a Fraudulent Breast Cancer Charity, Marie Claire, 2016