// writing
Book
It’s fun to be a person I don’t know - University of Nebraska Press, American Lives Series (March 2023)
Publications
“Chachi D. Hauser of Hunger Mountain Recommends...” - Poets & Writers “Agents & Editors Recommend” Series (online, May 7th, 2025)
“How Nonfiction Writing and Documentary Filmmaking Curate the Truth” - Lit Hub (online, July 7th, 2023)
“This Summer, High River” - Prairie Schooner (print, summer 2021)
“Nonfiction/Nonbinary Literary Identities” - The Writer’s Chronicle, cover article (print, spring 2021)
“Imagineering” - Crazyhorse (print, fall 2020)
“Tomboy” - Third Coast Magazine (print, fall 2020)
“How to be a Disney” - Hobart (online, summer 2017)
“Cowboy” - Quaint Magazine (online/print, spring 2017)
“The Transplants” - Broad! Magazine (online, summer 2016)
Writing Honors and Residencies
2025 Vermont Studio Center Residency
2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards LGBTQ+ Literature Finalist for It’s fun to be a person I don’t know
2023-2024 Featured Reader at Blue Cypress Books (New Orleans), Rubber Flower Reading Series (New Orleans), Housing Works Bookstore with PEN America (NYC), The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore (Paris), LMNL Lit Reading Series (New Orleans)
2023 Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writer
2020 Nominated by Crazyhorse Magazine for a Pushcart Prize for her essay “Imagineering”
2013 New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore Fellow
Wesleyan University English Department Writing Prizes:
2013 Winner, 2011 Honorable Mention of The Boylan Award for creative nonfiction writing
2011 Winner of The Herbert Lee Connelly Prize for nonfiction writing
