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- "After the Heat," Hobart. March 2020.
- "City Noise Supercharged My Anxiety. It Was Nature Sounds That Saved Me," The Washington Post. January 2020.
- "On 'The Sound of Undoing,'" NAR Open Space. December 2019.
- "The Sound of Undoing," North American Review. December 2019.
- "The Sound of an Imitated Ocean," Cream City Review. June 2019. *Nominated for Pushcart Prize* *Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020*
- "How to Minimize Your 'Noise Footprint,'" The Guardian. June 2019.
- "The Sound of Nothing," Indiana Review. May 2019.
- "A List of Sounds That Can Be Heard in Milwaukee," Belt Publishing: City Anthology Series. March 2019.
- "The Starvation Phase," (Poetry). Bitterzoet Magazine. February 2019.
- "A Thanksgiving Ritual," The Nasiona. November 2018.
- "Some Writers Who Wander Are Actually Lost," TRUE. August 2018.
- "Milky Blue," Proximity. September 2018.
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- "A Swamp in Boston," The Collapsar. October 2017.
- "Keeping It Even," The Billfold. October 2017.
- "How to Walk an Invisible Dog," The Harvard Review. April 2017.
- "'Antiques Roadshow' and the Middle-Class Dream," Van Winkle's. January 2017.
- "Up All Night With the Dogs," Van Winkle's. October 2016.
- "How I Became Immersed in ASMR—Until the Moment I Couldn't Feel It Anymore," Van Winkle's. July 2016.
- “Interactions With Men," Luna Luna Magazine. March 2016.
- “My Husband and Video Gaming," Bustle Magazine. January 2016.
- “The Routine," Barnstorm Journal. October 2015.
- “On Bugs," Midwestern Gothic. October 2015.
- “The Lone Pallbearer," Prime Number Magazine. March 2015.
- “The Cooldown," The Baltimore Review. January 2015.
- “Last Farmhouse Party," Catch & Release. January 2015.
- "An Ocean in Iowa," Our Iowa Magazine. August 2014.
- “Questioning," Biostories. June 2014.
- “Barricade,” So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art. November 2014.
- “A Woman Debates Getting Naked in the Fitness Center Locker Room,” McSweeney’s. November 2014.
- “How to Move Forward,” Spry Literary Magazine. May 2013.