BOOK
This Middle Living, forthcoming from Autumn House Press in the fall of 2027.
Selected as the winner of the 2026 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, judge Ira Sukrungruang writes “This Middle Living is so much more than one woman’s search for self in the face of grief and the pain that grief cleaves. It is more than how to negotiate the empty spaces — literal and metaphorical — of the ones you have come to need. With such sharp prose, This Middle Living speaks a universal truth: grief never leaves; it is how to make room for it in the new configuration of our lives as days, months, and years tick by.”
Awards and honors
Transition Lenses, published in Brevity, selected for a 2025 Pushcart Prize
Identity Release, published in Fugue Literary Journal, nominated for a 2026 Pushcart Prize
On Molting, published in The Kenyon Review, selected by Melissa Febos as the winner of the Kenyon Review’s Short Nonfiction Contest
How Many Mornings Does It Take To Kill a Caged Bird, published in The Indiana Review, selected by Brian Turner as the winner of The Half K Prize
Elsewhere, published in Bellingham Review, named a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction
Prewritten, selected as a semi-finalist for the American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize
Recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship with Dinty W Moore at The Kenyon Review
Selected publications
Splitting, Light Study (forthcoming)
We Are Fish, Stone of Madness Press (forthcoming)
A Pattern in Particles of Gas, La Piccioletta Barca
Beginnings, Waxwing
Muse, Lumina: A Literary Arts Journal
The Laws of Time and Physics, The Common
Close Observation as an Act of Love, Working Artist Mag
Writing Practice, Hustle Culture
Sky Math,The Nature of Collapse, and others, Claiming Writerhood
A Childhood in 9/11’s Shadow: Did the Debris Cloud Poison Me?The Washington Post
When Facing a Cancer Diagnosis, Sometimes Information Isn’t Power, The Washington Post
Why a Team of Business Schoolers has Formed an Election Integrity Startup, The Fulcrum
Confronting the intersection of American democracy and American Racism, The Fulcrum
Local NJ Teen Will Argue for The Freedom to Marry, The New York Times