“A Graveyard of Pitches” (Brevity, December 2024)

“Chicago Style Guide's 18th Edition Shows How Language Evolves” (Peacock Proud Press, September 2024)

“The Importance of Show and Tell in Memoir” (Peacock Proud Press, June 2023)

“Healing a Pulverized Heart: Why I Write Nonfiction” (Brevity, December 2022)

“Starter Marriage” (The Coachella Review, June 2021)

“A Writer's Pact with Readers” (Brevity, May 2021)

“100 Agents” (Brevity, December 2020)

“Becoming a Brave Artist” (The Manifest-Station, September 2020)

“What Perimenopause Is Like During a Pandemic” (The HerStories Project, May 2020)

“Writing-Adjacent Activities as Diversion Tactics” (Brevity, September 2019)

“Mock Intimacy in a Fake House” (Green Briar Review, May 2019)

“Living in Post-Manuscript Limbo" (Brevity, October 2018)

“Transforming an Essay Collection into a Memoir” (Brevity, January 2018)

“Before the Internet, Love was Simpler” (Ravishly, June, 2017)

“I’m not an extrovert — and that makes it harder to find love” (The Washington Post, January 2017)

“A Late Bloomer’s Guide to Publishing” (Black Fox Literary Magazine, November 2016)

“Independent Woman Still Wants the Right Man” (The Manifest-Station, October 2016)

“Seeking Flings—Then Giving Them Up” (Luna Luna Magazine, May 2016)

“Party’s Over” (Reservoir Journal, January 2016)
(2017 Pushcart Prize nominee, 2016 Best of the Net Anthology nominee)

“Becoming a Writer in Due Time” (Brevity, January 2016)

“It’s Still Me” (Black Fox Literary Magazine, p. 104, July 2015)
(2016 Pushcart Prize nominee)

“The Way Couples Deal with Strippers Might Matter” (Bustle, April 2015)

“29 Things Only Long Beach Natives Understand” (Bustle, April 2015)

“Philosophy of Hamilton” (Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers, March 2014)