Writing

What shows up in my work? The female body: desiring, multitudinous, unruly. The urban South: magnetic, confounding, unsettled. Jews, past and present. The shifting and contested border between “we” and “I.”

My first forays into creative nonfiction are now out in the world: the essay “Two Supplicants in the Queen City” in Mud Season Review 80 (December 3, 2025, and you can find an author interview here); the flash piece “The Scent of Azure Ink” in Pomegranate Tent Review 1 (Fall 2025); the essay “Greetings from Tallahassee,” in The Nashville Review 43 (Fall 2024) and the flash piece “Burning Tongues,” in Ruby 4 (December 2023). The latter piece was nominated by the editors for Best American Essays 2024 and Best of the Net 2025.

Where to find my short fiction:

“Quinces for Juliet,” Unwoven Literary and Arts Magazine 2 (Fall 2025)

“The One Who Takes,” Villain Era (October 7, 2025)

“Awake and Light Your Lamp with the Oil of Gladness,”  Of the Book (November 12, 2024)

“A Wayfarer at Devil’s Elbow,” North Carolina Literary Review (Fall 2023), and a finalist for the 2022 Doris Betts Fiction Prize; listen to me read from and discuss the story on the November 2 episode of the podcast Rock Is Lit

“Paris Syndrome,” Jelly Bucket 12 (2022)

“The Movie Version of Your Life,” Editors’ Choice in Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices (Summer 2021) and a semifinalist for the 2020 Doris Betts Fiction Prize of the North Carolina Literary Review

“Cat Trap,” Salamander 52 (Spring/Summer 2021)

“Summer Knowledge” Confrontation 124 (Spring 2020)

“Tiny Planets,” Meridian 44 (2020)

“Full Immersion,” The Main Street Rag 25: 2 (Spring 2020)

“Q &A,” Jewish Fiction 24 (March 2020)

“Old Spiny Ridge,” storySouth 48

“Sugar Talk,” The South Carolina Review 52.1 (Fall 2019)

“Little Hen,” appears in the Summer 2019 issue of Lilith and is included in Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine

“Cannula,” Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment (Winter 2019) (awarded an Honorable Mention by Glimmer Train)

“Pilgrim Children Sing Hosannas,” Sky Island Journal #4.

“The Italian Dance,” Mud Season Review 30. (You can find an author interview here.)

“White Tara and Good Saint Anne,” Kindred 12.

I’ve got other projects underway.

urban wilds