Writing

Electric Body, DIAGRAM, October 2024

Medical gaslighting, electricity, and the female body.

Essays

Buenos Aires, Past Subjunctive, Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, April 2024

Subjunctive grammar, life as an expat, and the limits of self-reinvention. A finalist for the Lighthouse Lit Fest Emerging Writers’ Award in Nonfiction, selected by Leslie Jamison, June 2023.

Dolores: Listening to The Cranberries in Virginia, Off Assignment, August 2023

The music of Dolores O’Riordan and the relationship between beauty and sadness.

Growing Up with Sally Mann, DIAGRAM, July 2023

The photographs of Sally Mann, Southern girlhood, and what art is for.

Saint Claire, Chronically Lit, April 2023

The patron saint of migraines.

“‘Goose Gazette’ Subscriber Chat,” The Drift, December 2025

Tradwives, Substack, raw milk, free Palestine.

Reviews & Criticism

We’re Not Happy Until You’re Not Happy: On Sophie Gilbert’s “Girl on Girl”, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2025

Jessica Simpson’s jeans, how pop culture destroyed feminism, and millennial girlhood.

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Glossier: On Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy”, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2024

The decline of the girlboss, corporate feminism, and VC-backed beauty.

Working the Trap: On Suzanne Scanlon’s “Committed”, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2024

The asylum era and the legacy of literary madwomen.