Essays

CREATIVE NON-FICTION / ESSAYS 

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