Writing Portfolio

Nonfiction


Slasher Movies Make Me Homesick // These Fifty States // 10.9.2017

Flagging the Problem // Yale Daily News // 10.26.2016

in her voice i hear the revolution // Relatively Dark Blue Neither Purple Nor Green (WYBCx Zine) // 5.10.2017

In Praise of Trash // Relatively Dark Blue Neither Purple Nor Green (WYBCx Zine) // 2.14.2017

Patti Smith's "Eighteen Stations": Review //  Relatively Dark Blue Neither Purple Nor Green (WYBCx Zine) // 5.2.2016


Fiction


Family-Less Heirlooms // Yale Daily News // 4.16.2018 // Second Place, The Wallace Prize Competition, Fiction

Poetry


Bloody Mary Slumber // The Yale Herald // 4.23.2018

Pink Cadillac // Voke Spoken Word // 4.10.2017

Provocation // Voke Spoken Word // 2.24.2017

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