Essays

• The Rape Kit was Invented by a Woman. So Why Did a Man Take Credit for So Long?,
The Boston Globe (January 9, 2025)

• An All-Weather Friend, New Jersey Monthly (November 2023)

• A Sister’s Murder and the Language of Violence, The New York Times Book Review (February 26, 2023)

Included in Lit Hub’s 5 Reviews You Need to Read this Week (March 2, 2023)

• Postpartum, Guernica (August 2022)

• How a Death Row Inmate’s Embrace of Conservatism Led to His Release,
The New York Times Book Review (February 22, 2022)

• For Lack of an Ending, CrimeReads (June 21, 2021)

• Siena, The Common (October 2015)

   Included in the "Notables" section of Best American Essays 2016 guest-
   edited by Jonathan Franzen

• Good Enough, Brain, Child (Winter 2015)

• My child is here, but my body is still not my own, The Washington Post
(October 2014)

• Follow the Wind, Shenandoah (Fall 2014)

• Like Held Breath, Crab Orchard Review (Spring 2014)

   Finalist, John Guyon Literary Prize

   Included in the "Notables" section of Best American Essays 2015 guest-
   edited by Ariel Levy

• An Essay Like Mousetrap, Essay Daily (January 2014)

• The Hard Way, Real Simple (February 2013)

   Third place winner, Life Lessons Essay Contest

• A Place for Everything, Appalachia Journal (Winter 2012)

   First place winner, Waterman Fund Essay Contest

• Sum of His Parts, Gulf Coast (Winter/Spring 2012)

• Three O'Clock High, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (November 2008)

• Beneath the City's Skirt, Pology (June 2008)

• Literary Laryngitis, Poets and Writers (December 2007)

• In, From the Outside, 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers
(Random House, 2006)

Interviews

• Hard Wired: Emily Bazelon, Guernica (March 2013)

• Parts and Partial: Stephanie Coontz, Guernica (September 2011)

• Taking Feminism's Pulse: Stephanie Staal, Guernica (February 2011)

• On the Emancipation of Women: Sheryl WuDunn, Guernica (January 2010)

• Cracked, Not Shattered: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Guernica
(August 2008)