Writing
Essays
Electric Body, DIAGRAM, October 2024
On medical gaslighting, electricity, and the female body.
Buenos Aires, Past Subjunctive, Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, April 2024
On subjunctive grammar, life as an expat, and the limits of self-reinvention.
Dolores: Listening to The Cranberries in Virginia, Off Assignment, August 2023
On the music of Dolores O’Riordan and the relationship between beauty and sadness.
Growing Up with Sally Mann, DIAGRAM, July 2023
On the photographs of Sally Mann, Southern girlhood, and what art is for.
Saint Claire, Chronically Lit, April 2023
On the patron saint of migraines.
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Glossier: On Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy”, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2024
On the decline of the girlboss, corporate feminism, and VC-backed beauty.
Reviews & Criticism
Working the Trap: On Suzanne Scanlon’s “Committed”, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2024
On the asylum era and the legacy of literary madwomen.