Essays Online

The Law of Simultaneous Contrast (Winner, Tucson Festival of Books Nonfiction Prize) - to read, download the 2021 issue pdf of The Vassar Review HERE, the essay begins on page 9.

Pictures in Leaves - Winner, New Millennium Writings 41st Literary Nonfiction Contest. Read HERE.

Sensitivity - Finalist, Solstice Literary Journal Summer Contest. Read HERE.

Pain Is - Black Horse Review, June 2025. Read HERE. 

Tableaux Vivants: Witness. Los Angeles Review, 2024. Read HERE.

I'm Sorry, Monica: Monica, #MeToo, and Me - PenDust Radio (audio) HERE

How to Build a Bonfire - Los Angeles Review, 2017. Read HERE.

If Memory - Lunch Ticket. Read HERE.

How to Move Your Life - Aji Magazine. (This journal is defunct.)

Promise - Hippocampus. Read HERE.

Lessons in a Chitlin - bioStories. Read HERE, p. 87.
Essays in Print
The Law of Simultaneous Contrast (Winner, Tucson Festival of Books Nonfiction Prize 2021) - The Vassar Review

The Drummer - Honorable Mention, Soundings Review 2014 First Publication Contest

How to Build a Bonfire - Los Angeles Review Best of the Year 2018

How to Move Your Life - Aji Magazine 2021

Highest and Best - Honorable Mention, Under the Gum Tree Fifth Anniversary Nonfiction Contest 2017

Deep Within, Far Beyond - Chautauqua Journal, Spring 2020

Requiem for the Fall - River Teeth Journal, Spring 2018

What She Doesn't Say - Tishman Magazine, 2018

If Memory - Lunch Ticket, 2017

Heritable Traits - Getting Old Anthology, KY Stories Press 2016
Chapbook
Border/Between: A Symphony in Essays -- HERE
Watch the promotional video and read publisher notes -- HERE