“When Fireflies Scatter,” The Normal School, (Dec 2025). This flash essay is part of a larger body of work, AfterBurn, a collection of snapshot moments (all flash) CNF in a life wrought with survival. AfterBurn is forthcoming, 2026, Moon Tide Press.
“Buddy Check,” Meat for Tea, (Sep 2025). This flash essay is part of a larger body of work, AfterBurn, a collection of snapshot moments (all flash) CNF in a life wrought with survival. AfterBurn is forthcoming, 2026, Moon Tide Press.
“Afterwards,” Solstice Literary Magazine (Aug 2025). “Afterwards” was chosen as an editor’s pick for Solstice 2025 literary contest and is part of a larger body of work, AfterBurn, a collection of snapshot moments (all flash) CNF in a life wrought with survival. AfterBurn is forthcoming, 2026, Moon Tide Press.
“What if Your C-Section Inspired Your Child’s Need to Escape,“ Lilith Magazine (Apr 2025). This flash essay is part of a larger body of work, AfterBurn, a collection of snapshot moments (all flash) CNF in a life wrought with survival. AfterBurn is forthcoming, 2026, Moon Tide Press.
“Feather Sweeping in Gary, Indiana, 1986,” Jewish Literary Journal (Apr 2025). A brief moment (flash essay) that is part of the forthcoming collection, AfterBurn (2026, Moon Tide Press). AfterBurn is a collection of snapshot moments capturing the after-shock of a life wrought with survival.
“Decluttering Damages My Writing,” Brevity (Jan 2025) I wrote this essay as an ode to all creatives who long to keep their objects near, who fight against the “clear countertop” thinking. I am one of you.
“How to Eat a Spider,” Khora (Dec 2024) I wrote (and re-wrote) this little essay over the years, trying to capture all the bully moments into one scene, with an open-ending for the reader to wonder, Did she cave and eat that spider?
2024 Pushcart-nominated “Learning to Crawl,” was born as a montage, a collection of interlacing scenes between my disabled (now adult) son, Zach, and me, as we both learn, in our own ways, how to navigate this world. My fascination with the human body and the way it heals and weaves through and around disabilities, became a driving force, along with the idea that we are all simply “crawling” through this thing called life. Hidden beneath these vignettes lives the idea that our limitations, our hidden disabilities, are often ancestral, familial, and gifted to us from our time in service, or, sometimes, from the world at large. Collateral Journal. 9.1 (Fall, 2024)
“Chiseled” a flash essay with a few hard hits. Oddball Magazine (Fall, 2024)
What Do ‘Killing Eve,’ ‘Angela’s Ashes,’ and Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ All Have in Common? Behold the storytelling superpower of monologues. Narratively (Oct 2024)
“Splintering” an essay weaving my double mastectomy, my son’s numerous surgeries, and the beautiful way the body and heart heal, forthcoming in Ellipsis (Apr 2024)
“Within the Negative 16%” is an essay about navigating through life in The Bucket (Apr 2024). This is part of the (vanquishing) Death-Bed Regret (DBR) series.
“How I Learned to Write the Hard Stuff” in Narratively. An essay about the moment I finally broke through and found my voice.
2024 Pushcart-nominated “Behind the Extra Rolls of Toilet Paper” is a flash, lyrical essay in Meat for Tea (March, 2024)
“Berry Picking Meditation” is a flash, lyrical essay in Meat for Tea (March, 2024)
“Learning to Steal” at The Rumpus, the essay is part of a series, Voices on Addiction, curated by Kelly Thompson. I love this series, this sacred space where we can hold each other in truth and without judgment, allowing a sense of restoration and healing to enter our wounds. (Feb 2024)
“Breaking” is a flash about breaking cycles in body and heart and violence in The Bucket (Feb 2024) and is part of the (vanquishing) Death-Bed Regret (DBR) series.
“A Little Letter from an AI Rebutter” an essay circling the creative process. In Brevity (Jan 2024)
“Barefoot & Stomping Beneath the Exit-Wounded Sky” an essay of parental struggles, with sons, with self. In Meat for Tea. Volume 17, Issue 2.
“Braced and Bedazzled” a narrative of overcoming adversity published in The Rumpus
“Meat & Dairy” a lyrical essay published in Hypertext Magazine (Spring/Summer 2022)
“I Got Crushed in a Field of Boy Corn and Girl Corn” a creative nonfiction flash published in Narratively
“I Still Wonder How He Knew I’d Be Home Alone” a creative nonfiction flash published in Narratively
“Me. No More.” a photo essay published in Hags on Fire
“Unalone” an excerpt from my memoir, NAVIGATION, published in Collateral Journal
“Thomas Hardy’s Spirit of Influence” an excerpt from my memoir, NAVIGATION, published in Limberlost Review (2021 Edition)
“Heart Beats” an essay about my disabled son’s heart surgery published in Capable Magazine
“Medical Screening” a hermit crab essay published in Capable Magazine
“Harnessed” a short creative nonfiction piece published in Airplane Reading
“Quarantine Isn’t So Bad” a humor essay published in 34th Parallel
“Gaming” an excerpt published in War, Literature, & the Arts
“Crash” an excerpt published in Collateral Journal
“Why I Write” an essay turning my “she” to “me” published in Fiction Southeast
“Veiled” in Tiferet Journal (Autumn/Winter 2018)
