Other Writing

AWARDS & HONORS

Things I’ll Tell My Daughter When She’s Older
Honorable Mention, WOMR Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, 2020 

The Codeine of Jordan
Selected as a notable essay in The Best American Travel Writing 2012

Romanian Fish
Southeast Review, winner of the 2005 World’s Best Short Short Contest judged by Robert Olen Butler

FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION

Surface Routes
The MacGuffin, Winter 2016

Here But Not Here
Hippocampus Magazine, January 2016 | Read

The Baseness of Nature Short
Fiction Southeast, August 2015

This Moment, Right Now Short
Sierra Nevada Review, Spring 2013

The Codeine of Jordan
Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2011

In Bulgaria
Sojourn, 2008

Romanian Fish
Southeast Review, winner of the 2005 World’s Best Short Short Contest judged by Robert Olen Butler

This Is What I Do
Natural Bridge, Fall 2003

What I Learned Living in New York
Under the Sun, Summer 1998

ANTHOLOGIES

Mourning Rituals
On Being Jewish Now, edited by Zibby Owens, October 2024

The Life and Death (and Life) of Miami Beach
In Season: Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places In Between, edited by Jim Ross, March 2018

The Codeine of Jordan
Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9, edited by Livinia Spalding, August 2013

SELECTED SATIRE & HUMOR

Go To College and Get The Hell Out Of My House
Slackjaw, April 2020 | Read

Rules For Sharing This Café With Me, A Writer
Slackjaw, November 2019 | Read

Hidden Europe: The Top 20 Sights You’ll See When Traveling with Your Teen
McSweeney’s, August 2019 | Read

SELECTED ARTICLES & ESSAYS

Windy City Blues’ Explores Racial Tension and Music in 1950s
Chicago Book Review, May 2017 | Read

The Talk: My Daughter’s Uterus, and Other Sex Ed She Refuses to Discuss With Me
Cognoscenti, October 2016 | Read

My Writerly Weakness: A Novel Not About Me?
NaNoWriMo Blog, September 2016 | Read Suggestions on how prepare for National Novel Writing Month Finding Your

Rose’s Choice
JW Magazine, April 2016 | Read
An essay about learning of my great-grandmother’s abortion, which was the inspiration for Modern Girls

Facing the Edits: 7 Steps to a Happy Revision
Writer’s Digest Guide to Literary Agents Blog, March 2016 | Read