Longer Essays
"Getting Over My Cleansing Obsession in the Desert" Outside Online, 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
"I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons" Autostraddle.com, forthcoming 2020
"Seven Biographies that Are Secretly Memoirs" Electric Literature, February 3, 2020
"My Rainbow Youth," an excerpt of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Lit Hub, forthcoming 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 Oprah Magazine, 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
"Field Report: El Paso + Juárez" Southwest Contemporary, 2019. Winner, Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism 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
