CREATIVE NON-FICTION / ESSAYS
“What Is the Point of Literature if It Can’t Bring People Back From the Dead”
The Alaska Quarterly Review, forthcoming 2025
“London”
The Southern Review, forthcoming 2025
“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