Portfolio

Selected essays, features, and humor:

• “Inside the Wild Stock Market for Politics Where Traders Bet On Our Next President” — published in Marker (10/21/20)

• “Chronic Illness Taught Me to Redefine Progress” — published in Human Parts (10/9/2019)

• “I paid $47 an hour for someone to be my friend” — published in Vox (7/1/19)

• “Classic Literature as Fortune Cookie Fortunes” — published in The Paris Review (1/2/19)

• “Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize is a victory for literary weirdness” — published in Quartz (10/5/17)

• “A Definitive Ranking of America’s Fast-Food Buffalo Sauces” — published in VICE (9/19/16)

• “William Shakespeare’s Yelp Reviews” — published in BuzzFeed (6/15/15)

• “Review: Family Life, by Akhil Sharma“ — published in PANK (8/12/14)

Selected fiction:

• “Fun and Fresh” — winner of Split Lip Magazine‘s 2019 Flash Fiction contest, judged by Bryan Washington (3/14/20)

• “Slipping” — published in them. (6/12/20)

• “Our Little Problem” — published in Bridge Eight (7/24/2018)

• “Let’s All Go to the Movies” — published in Monkeybicycle (7/6/2018)

• “Swing Your Partner” — published in Pithead Chapel (3/18/18)

• “Thicker Than Water” — published in the fiction anthology Nothing Short Of (4/3/18)

• “Salaryman” — published in Bodega (October 2017)

• “The Road to Hell” — featured in Wigleaf‘s 2018 short fiction longlist, published in Gravel (9/29/2017)

• “Rhythm Hit” — published in the fiction anthology All Our Misdeeds (3/13/17)

• “How to Make a Fish Dance“ — winner of Epiphany Magazine‘s 2016 Writers Under 30 contest (Spring 2016)

• “Diet” — published in apt (3/7/16)

• “Eating You” — published in NANO Fiction (Spring 2015)

• “Intruder” — published in The Molotov Cocktail (Winter 2014)

• “Arm in Arm, March On” — 2nd place winner of One Throne Magazine‘s 2014 short story contest (Fall 2014)

• “Assisted Living” — published in Umbrella Factory (Fall 2013)