Longer Essays
You Are Glowing with Crystal White Light! New England Review, 2021
Getting Over My Cleansing Obsession in the Desert Outside Online, 2019
Field Report: El Paso + Juárez" Southwest Contemporary, 2019. Winner, Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism 2019.
A Walking Tour of the End of the World The Magazine June 2017
Illness Is Metaphor Tin House spring 2017. Finalist, Keene Prize for Literature.
Thirteen Ways of Moving to the Desert Pastelegram fall 2016. Winner, Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism 2019.
Finders, Keepers Tin House fall 2015. Winner, Pushcart Prize 2017. Finalist, Keene Prize for Literature.
The Tracks The Lifted Brow and Lit Hub fall 2015
Mother Matter: Transcorporeality in Carole Maso and Joan Didion Contemporary Women’s Writing 2015
'The Human Heart is a Chump': Cataloging The Pale King The Millions 2012
Shorter Essays
Butter, Sugar, and a Tablespoon of Grief The New York Times, December 2020
Unitard Guernica, June 22, 2020
I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons Autostraddle.com, February 20, 2020
Cataloguing Carson McCullers’ Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity an excerpt of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Lit Hub, February 18, 2020
Seven Biographies that Are Secretly Memoirs Electric Literature, February 3, 2020
The Closeting of Carson McCullers, an excerpt from My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, The Paris Review Daily, February 3, 2020
Chick-fil-A, Organ, and Blue Chair, excerpts from My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Southwest Contemporary, February 2020
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Make Money From Again The Paris Review Daily, January 28, 2020
An excerpt of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers O, The OprahMagazine, Dec 2019
New Mexico Women column Southwest Contemporary/The Magazine, 2018-2019. Honorable Mention, 2019 Folio Awards.
The Freelancer's Guide to Deductions McSweeneys Internet Tendency, 2019
The Life-Changing Magic of Keeping Absolutely Everything McSweeneys Internet Tendency, 2019
"Incendio!": On Zadie Smith Essay Daily, 2018
Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1976), Near Lucin, UT The Magazine, 2018
Maybe I Just Needed to Kill and Google Your Feelings The Arkansas International issue 3, fall 2017
My Vagina and the Vaginas of My Friends Minola review spring 2017
Unpacking My Lesbian Library The Open Bar 2016
Unofficial Inquiries from the Archives of Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Electric Literature 2016
A Lydia Davis Story NANOFiction vol. 8 no. 1, fall 2014
Carson McCullers, Style Icon Cultural Compass 2013