Featured Publications
All Recent Publications
2024, Electric Literature, “Mothering and Writing Are Both Undervalued Labor, so How Do Women Do Both?” (book excerpt)
2022, The Christian Century, “Death’s Vision” (personal essay)
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, “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, “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, “Edible Sorrow: Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart reckons with grief through food” (book review)
2021, WXPN’, “Music + Art: Karl Blau on Nomad” (interview)
2021, WXPN, “Music + Art: Carol Cleveland Sings on Eadweard Muybridge’s Motion Studies” (interview)
2021, WXPN, “Music + Art: Kingsley Ibeneche on Meg Saligman’s Philadelphia Muses” (interview)
2021, WXPN, “Music + Art: Suzanne Sheer on Kara Walker’s the secret sharerer” (interview)
2020, WXPN’, “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)
The essay “My Brother Beside Me” is published in Issue 104 of Image Journal.
Music+Art: Q&As with musicians about their favorite art works in Philadelphia.
The essay "What My Brother Wore" is published in the Spring 2017 issue of Relief.
The essay, “What I Saw When I Really Looked: My Late Brother, Heroin, and Grief,” is published at The Millions.
A feature about how place informs artistry, for WXPN’s The Key.
The essay "A Posture of Receptivity" is featured in Ep. 2 of the Dead Parents Society podcast.
