WRITING
I have published articles on history and culture, book reviews, interviews, and poems. I have also written content for university and corporate clients. Below is a selection of my published work.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
"For Centuries, People Took Chunks of Stonehenge Home as Souvenirs," Atlas Obscura
"Clothing Britain’s Spies during World War II," JSTOR Daily
"Wearing a 19th-Century Mourning Veil Could Result in—Twist—Death," Racked (now archived)
"How Photo Retouching Worked Before Photoshop," Mental Floss
"Why Does Santa Claus Come Down the Chimney?," Mental Floss
"Why Women Couldn’t Wear Pants on the Senate Floor Until 1993," Mental Floss
"5 Very Early Stories About American Women and Voting," Mental Floss
"9 Facts About Jeannette Rankin, the First Woman Elected to Congress," Mental Floss
"7 Facts About Bertha Knight Landes, First Female Mayor of a Major American City," Mental Floss
"9 Facts About Frances Perkins, the First Female Cabinet Member," Mental Floss
"9 Facts About Pioneering Lawyer and Activist Belva Lockwood," Mental Floss
"13 Questionable Weight-Loss Products From History," Mental Floss
"How 30 Chicago Streets Got Their Names," Mental Floss
"Behind the Magic: 15 Secrets of Disney Park Characters," Mental Floss
"How Nashville's Neighborhoods Got Their Names," Mental Floss
"What constitutes a literary legacy in the age of the laptop?," Carve Magazine blog
"The Trouble With Titles, Part 1," Carve Magazine blog
"The Trouble With Titles, Part 2," Carve Magazine blog
"Raymond Carver Audio Recordings Come and Gone," Carve Magazine blog
"The Carve VIDA Count," Carve Magazine blog
INTERVIEWS
"My Year Abroad: An Interview with Chang-rae Lee," Harvard Review
"Walking Backwards at the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Poetry: Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim," Gender News
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, Harvard Review
Review of Say Sand by Daniel Coudriet, Meridian
Review of Heavy Petting by Gregory Sherl, Meridian
POEMS
"and the sea still there," DIAGRAM
"Elegy for Ragged Mountain Reservoir," PANK
"Accidental" and "Keep," BOAAT
"The Zipper," The Collagist
"Poem Wearing Your Face," Southern Indiana Review
"Dark Lake," Southern Indianda Review
"Apologia," Apogee
"Summer, Virginia Beach," Cutbank
"To Survive," Bellingham Review (Runner-up, 49th Parallel Award for Poetry)
"How Long I Pretended I Wasn't Hungry," American Literary Review