Select Essays:

“Linda Who?” Worms, Volume 11: Faith and Worship

“Cockroach Bay” The Missouri Review (online), December 2025

“Address Unknown” Autofocus, Winter 2024

“Field Notes on Circles” Willow Springs, No. 93

“How To Sleep in Your Car” The Common, May 2023

“Mysteries Already Deciphered” Crazyhorse, No. 102, Winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Prize, selected by Matt Ortile

“Moving to Paradise” The Los Angeles Review, September 2021

“The Ergonomics of Loss” Southern Indiana Review, Volume 27, Number 1, Winner of the 2019 Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award, selected by Sarah Perry

“Women of the Sky” Bellingham Review, Volume XLII, Issue 78, Winner of the 2018 Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction, selected by Jenny Boully

“Past the Boardwalk” Prairie Schooner, Volume 92, Number 3

“In the Kelp” The Normal School , Volume 11, Issue 1

“At My School” Brevity, Issue 57

“Birth Redux” Hayden’s Ferry Review, #59

 “The Season For Shapeshifting” Black Warrior Review, Issue 43.1

 “Method Acting” River Teeth, Volume 16.2 

“Various Angles of a Photo: Sleeping Prairie Chickens” Sonora Review, Issue 67

 “A Language Translatable by No One” The Masters Review Anthology, V. III

“The Path We Used to Walk” DIAGRAM, 14.4

 “The Disappearing Midwestern Girlhood: An Ethnography” Storm Cellar Quarterly, 4.3