Essays

No Ugly Crying, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things

Bad Body, Pithead Chapel

  • This essay was featured in Muse with JPC and was picked by Sari Botton to be included in Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the 12 best personal essays from around the web.

Meet Me in the Middle, Brevity

  • This essay was featured in Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the 12 best personal essays from around the web, edited by Sari Botton

Loving the Alien, Under the Gum Tree

Autonomy, South of the Garden

Journalism

“Everybody’s Voice is Unique": Disability in the Performing Arts, PBS

Open Access, Indyweek

A self-made freelance career (with a little help along the way), Nieman Storyboard (curated by Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski)

Creatives in Conversation is my interview series that ran from 2018-2022, spotlighting North Carolina artists discussing their creative process


Media & Podcasts

Little Flames Contributor Series interview, February 2026

Featured in the Truly Important Substack: True Stories, Out Loud, October 2024

Writing the Past newsletter interview, August 2024

Awards & Honors

Two-time Artist Support Grant Awardee, granted by the Durham Arts Council

Second Place, Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Contest, Sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network (judged by Julia Ridley Smith)

Second Place, RCWMS Annual Essay Contest

Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Award, granted by the Durham Arts Council

Finalist, Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Contest, Sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network (judged by Jane Wong)

Scholarship Awardee, Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony, Provincetown, MA

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