Articles
In my news section, I announced that I was the Grand Prize winner of the 2024 Narratively Memoir Prize. My essay, Black Girl, Blue Leotard: How my Ticket to Belonging Broke my Heart, is finally live!
Here is a new pre-book-launch piece I wrote for BookTrib, out today! Shoutouts to my Tall Poppy Writers sisters, Hank Phillippi Ryan, T.M. Blanchet, and Maddie Dawson.
Say “What?” When Readers’ Responses Amaze and Intrigue Authors
Here are the links to a few earlier pieces I’ve published. The thread of identity runs through all three works. The last article focuses on how culture impacts body image.
Essay: My Cell-Cluster “Sibling” was Aborted. I’m Here Instead, Oldster Magazine, September 2022
Essay: To Write Fiction with a Therapist’s Mind, Lit Hub, August 2022
Essay: Statue, The Common, July 2020
Essay: The Wrong Pair, Longreads, November 2018
Essay: Brown Girl With Bubblegum, Longreads, August 2018
Essay: I am not my Mother’s Cleaning Lady, Narratively.com, April 2018
