Essays

Personal Essays
“Heaven's Whatever.” Fourth Genre. 2024.
“An Incomplete List of Sad Beautiful Things.” North American Review. 2023. 
“mama asks, haven't you been lucky to know gracious men.” Creative Nonfiction. 2022. 

“Chin Up, Extroverts! We Will Crowd Again.” The New York Times. 2020.
“Love and Other Artificial Intelligences.” Gay Magazine. 2020.
“Sophia Hanson Wants to Believe.” The Rumpus. 2019.

“How I Caught a Dad on Pokémon Go.” Ravishly. 2017.

“The Cost of Driving Cross-Country.” The Billfold. 2017.

Craft/Critical Essays
“How Fandom Made the Good Omens Miniseries Better (and Gayer) than the Book.” Syfy Wire. 2019.
“Getting to the Heart of SFF's Most Tear-Inducing Moments: The 'Riders of Rohan' Phenomenon.” Tor. 2019. 
“Ditch the Quotes: Teach Your Students to Italicize Dialogue.” AWP: The Writer's Notebook. 2019.
“Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the 'Female' Virtual Assistant.” Lit Hub. 2019.
“On Obsession.” Black Warrior Review. 2018.
“Enchanted Prose: Lyrical Language as Strength in the Mythic Novel.” Ploughshares. 2018.
“The Shattered Novel: Rules of Fragmented Fiction.” Grist: The Writing Life. 2017.