CREATIVE NON-FICTION / ESSAYS
“The best books that show humans aren’t the only species that matter”
Shepherd, December 2024
“I Am Writing This To You Not Because I Want To Understand You But Because I Want To Understand What Love Is“
Diagram, October 2024
“Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence“
LitHub, December 2023
“The Climate Change Solution Spectrum“
The Big Idea/Whatever, December 2023
“The Cave“
Alaska Quarterly Review, Winter / Spring 2023
Nice review in the Anchorage Daily News
Named a notable essay in Best American Essays
“The Picnic Pavilion“
Granta, Winter 2022
“Romantic Landscape With Ruin“
Terrain.org, 2022
“The Rooms In Which I Waited“
The Rupture, 2021
“Inheritance“
The Sun, June 2021
Notable essay in Best American Essays
Notable essay in Best American Science and Nature Writing
“Dialogue Box”
Alaska Quarterly Review , 2021
Nice review in the Anchorage Daily News
“Verb (Usually Used With Object)”
Gargoyle, issue 68, Spring 2018
“The Nothing Time: Writing and Reading Through Injury“
The Millions, November 2017
“A List of Utopias“
The Sun, April 2017
Reprinted in Fall 2017 Utne Reader
Named as a notable essay in Best American Essays
“My Son Doesn’t Smile for Photos”
Motherwell, September 2016
Reprinted on The Mighty
“Why I Stopped Reading Parenting Books“
Brain, Child, June 2016
Reprinted on The Mighty
“9 Compensations for Sleeplessness“
Orion, May 2016
“Better”
Penny, 2016
“The Last Poem I Loved: On Turning Ten, by Billy Collins“
The Rumpus, September 2015
Review of Ozma of Oz
HTMLGIANT, October 2014
“Apocalypse as Utopia: On Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall“
NER Digital, 2012