Writing

Autism, Neurodiversity & Education

• The Robots Think Autistic Writers Are Robots — Autism Motherlode, 2026.
• Bryan Kohberger Has Eight Diagnoses??? — Autism Motherlode, 2026.
• “Person With Lesbianism” — Autism Motherlode, 2026.
• Why autistic people accept self-diagnosis (and you should too) — Autism Motherlode, 2026.
• The Coyote Curriculum: How Autistic Special Interests Become Strengths, and What Parents Can Do — REEL, 2026.
• To the Parent Holding Their Child’s Neuropsych Report — Autism Motherlode, 2026.
• “About Me” — AKA: How I (Crash) Landed Here — Autism Motherlode, 2026.

Reported Features & True Crime

• Escaping Slenderman’s Shadow: The Release of Morgan Geyser — CrimeReads, 2025.
• The Dark Origins of the True-Crime Frenzy at CrimeCon — Vanity Fair, 2024.
• Idaho Murders: As a Small Town Grapples With Sinister Rumors, Media’s True-Crime Obsession Grows — Vanity Fair, 2023.
• The Idaho Murders, Part 1: How 4 College Kids Lived and Loved — Vanity Fair, 2023.
• Gabby Petito’s Life With—And Death By—Brian Laundrie — Vanity Fair, 2022.
• Living with Slenderman — Hazlitt, 2018.
• Murder on Union Hill Road — Hazlitt, 2017.
• Allergic to life: the Arizona residents ‘sensitive to the whole world’ — The Guardian, 2016.
• What Wisconsin’s Teenage Girls Think About the Slender Man Stabbing — VICE, 2014.

Cultural Reporting

• Dr Orgasm will see you now: is the O-Shot what women need for better sex? — The Guardian, 2016.
• The Human Repair Shop — Hazlitt, 2015.

Essays & Memoir

• Kathleen Hale’s Playlist for Her Book “Slenderman” — Largehearted Boy, 2022.
• Will Float Tanks Help You Forget the Problems of the World? — GQ, 2017.
• First I Got Pregnant. Then I Decided to Kill the Mountain Lion. — ELLE, 2017.
• I felt the love—finally—at the Women’s March, but what do we do tomorrow? — The Guardian, 2017.
• 2016: a year of utter hell—but let’s raise a toast to it anyway — The Guardian, 2016.
• Through the Looking Glass — The Mary Review, 2016 (Longform archive).
• Surviving the Love Bomb — Hazlitt, 2016.
• This Is The Story Of A Happy Reader — The Hairpin, 2014.
• ‘Am I being catfished?’ An author confronts her number one online critic — The Guardian, 2014.
• Quit Everything — in Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, 2014.
• Dress Your Family In Your Lover’s Shoes — The Hairpin, 2014.
• Desperately Seeking Psychics — ELLE, 2014.
• Prey — Hazlitt, 2014; adapted as From prey to predator: how I got justice after sexual assault for The Guardian and From Prey to Predator: Overcoming My Rape for ELLE.
• Privileged — Thought Catalog, 2013.

Profiles & Conversations

• ‘A Tiny Inward Scream is the Appropriate Response to Exposure’: An Interview with Maile Meloy — Hazlitt, 2016.
• ‘Empathy Implicates You’: An Interview with Bill Hader — Hazlitt, 2016.
• ‘The Trick is to Think of Someone From the Inside Out’: An Interview with Jesse Eisenberg — Hazlitt, 2016.
• Carrie Brownstein: ‘There was so much I wanted to destroy’ — The Guardian, 2015.
• An Interview with Sheila Nevins — The Believer, 2015.
• Feeling Fear Between the Lines: An Interview with David Lagercrantz — Hazlitt, 2015.
• You’re Not the Only One With a Crush on Trivago Guy — ELLE, 2015.
• Linda Cardellini Is Used to Being Called a Homewrecker — ELLE, 2015.
• Spending the Day With L.A.’s Ethical Taxidermist — ELLE, 2015.
• ‘Yoga Pants are Ruining Women’ and Other Style Advice From Fran Lebowitz — ELLE, 2015.

Culture, Criticism & Humor

• The State of the Crime Novel, Part 2: A Roundtable Discussion with the Edgar Nominees — CrimeReads, 2023 (roundtable contribution).
• A Reading List of Psychopathic Women — CrimeReads, 2022.
• Frankie Shaw’s SMILF Makes a Powerful Statement for Female Directors — Vogue, 2017.
• Is Teenage Plastic Surgery a Feminist Act? — Harper’s Bazaar, 2017.
• The secret lives of movie-star newborns: who are they, and what is all that goo? — The Guardian, 2016.
• ‘Sweat is just your fat crying’ and other things my yoga teacher says — The Guardian, 2016.
• Good Reads Gone Bad — Hazlitt, 2015.
• My Style Icon: In Appreciation of ’90s Winona Ryder — ELLE, 2015.
• A User’s Guide to Raising Your New Puppy While Remaining Sort Of Sane — The Hairpin, 2015 (with Annamarie Tendler).
• What Makes Us Feel Better When We’re Sad? — The Hairpin, 2014 (roundup contribution).
• How To Change Your Name In 41 Easy Steps — The Hairpin, 2014.
• Your Exotic Pet Doesn’t Love You — VICE, 2014.
• I Hunted Feral Hogs in Florida as a Favor to the World — VICE, 2014.
• A Young Adult Author’s Fantastic Crusade to Defend Literature’s Most Maligned Genre† — Nerve, 2014.

Fiction & Early Work

• The Corn — SmokeLong Quarterly, 2010.
• The Tub Is Just the Safest Place — Hazlitt, 2014.
• FICTION: Finagled — The Harvard Crimson, 2009.
• The One About Us — The Harvard Advocate, 2009; reprinted in Passages North, 2009‡.
• Surviving Coyote‡ — The Harvard Advocate, 2008.
• Lessons in Love — The Harvard Crimson, 2008.
• Nurse Ratched Lives at UHS — The Harvard Crimson, 2007.
• Find Your Husband‡ — North Central Review, 2007.
• From, Nica Lorber‡ — The Harvard Advocate, 2007.
• God, Abstinence Is Sexy — The Harvard Crimson, 2007.
• The Story of How I Saved Mama‡ — The Harvard Advocate, 2006.