If you want a little taste:

• “Goddamned Beautiful” at Oldster

• “How to Buy a Car” at Signal Mountain Review

• “Politics in Prose” at Creative Nonfiction

• “New Galilee Eclipse” at Belt Magazine (Nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize)

• “The Last Pause of Motherhood” at Motherwell Magazine

• “Cabbage Rolls on Vicodin” at Dead Housekeeping

• “The Joy of Writing” at Creative Nonfiction

• “Before We Were Good White” at Full Grown People (Notable in Best American Essays 2017)

• “The Price of Writing” at Creative Nonfiction

• “Who Are You?” at Essay Daily

• “Half-Lady, Half-Baby” at River Teeth

• “The Prince and the Perv” at Full Grown People

• “Seven Essays I Meet in My Literary Heaven” at the Brevity blog

• “So Happy Together” at The Nervous Breakdown

• “Separate Housewives” at The Morning News

• “Notes on Selling One’s Identity” at Virginia Quarterly Review

• “The Sensationalism-to-Get-Buzz Formula” at Virginia Quarterly Review

• “Like? Whatever: Likability and the Nonfiction Writer” at Virginia Quarterly Review

• “The Village” at Brain, Child

• “Test-Tube Nation” at Salon

• “More Than a Feeling” at Brain, Child

If you want a whole lot of it:

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