Featured Publications
All Recent Publications
2021, Kenyon Review Online, “Weaning: Intimacy & Independence in Alice Neel’s Mother Pictures” (personal essay)
2021, Ploughshares Blog, “Augustine as Literary Companion in Motherhood: A Confession” (critical essay)
2021, WXPN’s The Key, “Interludes” (personal essay)
2021, Ploughshares Blog, “The Importance of Writing About Art” (critical essay)
2021, The Christian Century, “Encountering Alice Neel’s paintings of mothers while pregnant” (critical essay)
2021, WXPN’s The Key, “Music + Art: King Britt on his collaboration with Joshua Mays, Dreams, Diaspora, and Destiny” (interview)
2021, Ploughshares Blog, “The Maternal Vision of Leslie Jamison and Marilynne Robinson” (critical essay)
2021, WXPN’s The Key, “Edible Sorrow: Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart reckons with grief through food” (book review)
2021, WXPN’s The Key, “Music + Art: Karl Blau on Nomad” (interview)
2021, WXPN’s The Key, “Music + Art: Carol Cleveland Sings on Eadweard Muybridge’s Motion Studies” (interview)
2021, WXPN’s The Key, “Music + Art: Kingsley Ibeneche on Meg Saligman’s Philadelphia Muses” (interview)
2021, WXPN’s The Key, “Music + Art: Suzanne Sheer on Kara Walker’s the secret sharerer” (interview)
2020, WXPN’s The Key, “Those Who Leave: COVID prompts adventure and introspection for Martha Stuckey, Sonni Shine, and Mariah Del Rio” (feature)
2020, Image, “My Brother Beside Me” (essay)
2018, The Millions, “What I Saw When I Really Looked: My Late Brother, Heroin, and Grief” (essay)
2018, American Bible Society, “What Happens When You Choose Silence Together” (blog post)
2018, American Bible Society, “Finding God in Life’s Ambiguity” (craft essay)
2018, American Bible Society, “Meeting God at the Edge of Our Understanding” (craft essay)
2018, American Bible Society, “Courage to Write: Seeing God, Self, and Neighbor” (craft essay)
2017, Relief Journal, “What My Brother Wore” (essay)
2016, Becoming Magazine, “Rest” (essay)
2013, Measure Journal, “Paul Simon's ‘Hearts and Bones’: Dignifying the Human Experience in Poetry and Song” (essay)
2013, Measure Journal, “Moon Hung Low” (song lyrics)