Creative Nonfiction

Essays

The Grief of Four-Year-Olds: In Short Journal, 2025

View of a sandy beach with green waves and a partly cloudy sky.

Beachcombing: Five Minutes, 2024

Fossilized dinosaur skeleton embedded in rock.
A person hanging upside down from the ceiling, with their feet and legs visible. The background is dark, highlighting the person's legs.

At Least He Didn’t Kick (This Time): Coffee + Crumbs, 2023

Assorted flavored organic GoGo squeeZ fruit and veggie pouches, MadeGood chocolate banana snack bar, and Welch's Raisins on a white marble surface.
A rural road with wet pavement, trees with fall foliage, and overcast sky, extending into the distance with a few cars

Country Roads, Take Me Home: Coffee + Crumbs, 2020

Close-up of a violin's scroll, tuning pegs, and part of the fingerboard against a plain wall.

Music Lessons: Coffee + Crumbs, 2020 (winner of the Exhale summer essay contest)

Child wearing striped socks and maroon pants standing on a gray carpeted floor near a plush gray rug.

Enough: Kindred Mom, 2020

Three tacos on a rectangular green plate with diced vegetables toppings, chili peppers, and crumbled cheese, accompanied by bowls of guacamole, salsa, and a glass of beer

Those Kinds of Friends: Kindred Mom, 2020