Narratively
Sinking Lessons was the 2025 Memoir Prize Winner
“The finalists were all top notch, but Sinking Lessons grabbed hold of the terrible awe of living at sea and I couldn’t look away. The essay packs the emotional punch of a great sea shanty. It’s alive and evocative. It smells of salt and sea and vomit. It’s moving, layered and very strange. I loved it.—”Susannah Cahalan, judge, Narratively Memoir Prize
Longreads Editors’ Pick
Sinking Lessons was selected as one of the week’s Editors’ Picks by Longreads. It was also included on Memoir Monday.
The Republic of Letters
Here I Am. I Know to Duck. was published by The Republic of Letters in August 2026.
“…writes about it all with grace, unflinching honesty, and sterling creativity.”—Sam Kahn, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Republic of Letters
“Wonderful piece. I think there is a memoir in this line: ‘Child sexual abuse is in the news a fair amount these days. A mother-son dynamic never comes up. I get why. But it’s a thing, and for me, that thing was knot upon knot of emotional and sexual confusion.’”—John Julius Reel, author of Rants From a Foreign Land
A Year In Ink
Emoticon was published in A Year in Ink, Vol. 19, in 2026.
“I don't think I've ever read a more powerful description … of addiction in my entire life.”—Larry Urish
“Can't remember having read something that so superbly blurs and marries the edges of poetry and prose.”—Rick Lewis, Honestly Human
Shaking the Tree
A Stranger at the Table was published in Shaking the Tree: Funny, Not Funny in 2026.
“Beautiful, devastating, not one spare word.”—Mary Becket Bissonnette