Essays

“A Desert Rite of Passage,” Summit Journal Scree Blog, Excerpt of Chapter 8, “Rope,” from Turn to Stone, November 13, 2025

“Holding Tight: When to Fall and When to Keep Climbing,” Literary Hub, Excerpt of Prologue from Turn to Stone, September 5, 2025

“Looking for New Ways to Live,” Orion Magazine, Excerpt of Chapter 2, “Yosemite,” from Turn to Stone, September 3, 2025

My Boyfriend’s Lies Cost Me More Than Our Relationship, Electric Literature, Excerpt of Chapter 1, “Run for Your Life,” from Turn to Stone, August 28, 2025

To Hug, or Not to Hug?, Longreads, April 20, 2018

In Praise of Cowardice, Longreads, December 18, 2017

Intro the Tribe, Rock and Ice magazine (print), Issue 245, October 2017

Report From Christiania, Medium, October 31, 2017

The Fly, Eleven Eleven journal, Issue #23 (print), August 2017

Down the Manhole, The Hairpin, May 19, 2017

The Girls Finale is a Financial Fantasy, The Billfold, April 18, 2017

Lucky Day, Entropy, April 6, 2017

Why I Marched, Medium, March 1, 2017

Funny Women #150: A Little More About Customer #7611594, The Rumpus, February 15, 2017

“You Just Killed the Weed Man”: Adventures in Buying (Legal) Pot, Salon, February 11, 2017

Anniversary of a Miracle: On Game 6, SuperLefty, October 25, 2016

Trigger Warning, SuperLefty and Facebook, October 11, 2016

Going Over the Falls of Fear, Adventure Journal, July 26, 2016

Instagramming for the Greater Good, Adventure Journal, July 15, 2016

Speaking Loudly for a Quiet Place, Patagonia®’s The Cleanest Line, July 14, 2016

6 Reasons I’d Be a Climber Even If I Didn’t Like Climbing, Touchstone Blog, July 14, 2016

El Cap, 3-D, Adventure Journal, May 11, 2016

My First Epic, Adventure Journal, April 28, 2016

Unsafe Spaces, Okey-Panky/Electric Literature, February 29, 2016

The N00b Chronicles: “On Failure,” Climbing, FEB/MAR 2016

The Last Book I Loved: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, The Rumpus, November 12, 2015

My First and Last Internet Date, Salon, September 21, 2014

Mating Habits of the Asterisk, The Morning News, June 25, 2014

My Old Men, Eleven Eleven, Issue #16, March 2014

The Dutchman, sparkle + blink #46, November 2013

The Failure of Nonviolence, Killing the Buddha, August 16, 2012

If You Think You’re the Best, Identity Theory, June 11, 2012

Marching in June, The Morning News, May 20, 2010

Lake Celeste or The Joy of Sex, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, April 25, 2010

You Gotta Believe, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, July 2, 2009

Noise, Identity Theory, March 31, 2009

The 11:11 to Penn Station, or Exodus, The Morning News, July 23, 2008

The Book of Weinstein, Killing the Buddha, June 30, 2008

The State of King, The Brooklyn Rail, February 11, 2006

Christmas Day in a Parallel Queens, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, January 5, 2006

A Patriot At Gunpoint, The Huffington Post, January 5, 2006

I Won’t Stand For It, The Huffington Post, December 15, 2005

Apprehension, or size 6 knee-length empire-waist strapless in burnt sienna silk shantung with pomegranate bow band, Identity Theory, December 4, 2005

An Open Letter to Officials of the United States Government Regarding What’s New in My Reproductive Area, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, September 2004