How to Stay Sane as a Female Deckhand in Alaska, Narratively, 2015

As one of very few women working in Alaska salmon country, I learned how to gut a fish and swallow its heart. But an even harder trick was navigating the torrential sea of masculinity. 

Red Black White, A Rainbow Squared, 2021

An exploration of red, black, white and how the color combination symbolizes struggles in my mental health, physical health, and emotional life. Includes photo animation. This piece is a guest essay for the site A Rainbow Squared, which explores color combinations as part of a divination system. 

Why I Stopped Taking My ADD Pills, VICE, 2016

I was eleven when I took my first dextroamphetamine pill for ADHD, and it would take me ten years to take my last.

Sleeping with a Gentrifier, The Bold Italic, 2016

What happens when a struggling artist starts dating a Google programmer in the rapidly-gentrifying Mission district of

San Francisco?