WRITING

Selected Craft Essays

“Finding Community in the Mess” (December 2025)

“Your Brain Is a Story Machine” (October 2025)

“When Structure Is the Enemy, and Also the Lifeline: A Neurodivergent Writer’s Survival Guide” (August 2025)

“How Do You Explain Climate Change to a Magnolia Tree?” (January 2023)

“Keep Making Art, Even When the World is Ending” (December 2021)

“Active Protagonists are a Tool of the Patriarchy” (September 2021)

“Back to the Beginning: How Creation Myths Affect Character Motivation” (August 2021)

“What Studying Nonviolent Resistance Taught Me About Writing Stories That Matter” (December 2020)

See the full list of my posts for Writer Unboxed here.

Creative Nonfiction

“Trauma, Bookended” GRIFFEL (March 2020)

“Tunisia: Tourism in a Post-Terrorism World” Wanderlust Journal (November 2018)

“Oh, Let’s Ride: Music, Food, and Troubled Older Men” Barrelhouse’s HEARD: A Tribute to Anthony Bourdain (September 2018)

Fiction

“Locks” Menacing Hedge (Summer 2017)

Contest Placings

Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention, “Locks” (June 2016)

Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest, Top 25, “On the Seventh Day” (April 2009)

Scholarship

Democracy & Society Journal, Vol. 11 Issue 1, Fall 2013: “Civil Society’s Role in Peaceful Democratic Unification: A Case Study of Yemen and Germany” (academic research, excerpt)