Sex / Culture / Power
I write narrative nonfiction with an eye to the intersecting themes of sex, culture, and power. Currently, I am a contributing writer for Rewire News Group, where I write and report medium- and longform reproductive rights stories. I’ve also written for Elle, Eater, Bon Appetit, LARB, TLS, The HuffPo, and The Rumpus, among others. My work has won Best of the Net, been nominated for Best American Essay, Best American Food Writing, and a Pushcart Prize. My edited anthology Strange Fire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic, appeared in 2021.
Work:
Inside the Race to Open an All-Trimester Abortion Clinic, Cosmopolitan, 2022
The Fight to Treat Patients at Catholic Hospitals, Rewire, 2022 (Part 2 of series)
Why Pregnant People Can’t Trust Catholic Health Care, Rewire, 2022 (Part 1 of series)
Post-Roe, We Need Physicians to Advocate for Abortion Care, MotherJones & Rewire, 2022
Ditch Your Hyper-specific Menu Plan. Eater, 2020.
The Best TNG Episodes to Fall Asleep With. StarTrek, 2020.
An Experience of Pregnancy: Lyz Lenz’s Belabored (review). Broad Street Review, 2020.
Pandemics…in Space! Lilith, 2020.
Our Stories Are Devastating. Will Reading Them Convince You To Protect Our Rights? The Huffington Post, 2020.
Like a Great Fish: Simile and Structure in Brandon Taylor’s Real Life. LARB, 2020
On Death and the Finale of Star Trek: Picard, LARB, 2020.
The Voyage Home: Star Trek: Picard and Millennial Nostalgia. LARB, 2020.
The Chelsea Clinton Uproar and the Public Perception of Pregnancy. Lilith. 2019.
When Your President Calls You a Murderer. Rewire, 2019
Bloody Waters at the Mikveh. Lilith. 2018.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Bad Character Has Nothing to Do with His Bad Politics. Rewire News. 2018.
"What if Buying a Gun Were Like Getting An Abortion?" Rewire News, 2018.
Paying for It: Editing and Gender in Academia.” Medium, 2018. (self-published)
Rivers of Babylon: The Story of a Third-Trimester Abortion. The Rumpus, 2018.
Best of Net award, nonfiction winner 2018
Best American Essays Notable 2019 (ed Rebecca Traister)
Pushcart nominee
Memoir Monday Pick
Longreads Top 5 Reads of the Week
#3, top 20 most read pieces of 2018, therumpus.net
Editor’s Picks for 2018, therumpus.net
Bounty. The Rumpus, 2019.
Best American Food Writing 2020, Notable
Other Medium material found here.
Substack found here.
Older Academic Writing:
"Introduction." Yearbook of Comparative Literature. Special issue: Allegory and Political Representation. Eds. Jacques Lezra and Tara Mendola. Vol. 61. Dec. 21, 2017.