SHORT STORIES + FLASH FICTION (select)
Half-Sisters (X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine – 2022)
After This (Pithead Chapel – August 2021 | nominated for Pushcart Prize)
The Things Loretta Can’t Have at The Bluffs of Placid Haven (The Saturday Evening Post – 2020)
Knife Skills for Comfort Food (Joyland – 2019)
The Snag of Hope (The Normal School – Vol 12, Issue One – final print issue 2019)
Bone Rate (X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine – 2019)
When The Ice Runs Out At The Annual Block Party We Stand By Our Husbands (Atticus Review – 2019)
This Is Not A Toy! (BULL – 2019)
Twelve-Step Program for Quitting My Life (CRAFT Literary – 2019 | plus author note | selected for Best Small Fictions 2020 | selected for 2020 Wigleaf Top 50)
Expiration Date (FIVE:2:ONE – 2019 Print Issue 21 + online)
May Nineteenth (Wigleaf – 2018 | plus Dear Wigleaf postcard)
Bitter Pills (Hypertrophic Lit – 2018 Summer print issue + online)
The Hollow of Freestone Peaches (Lost Balloon – 2018)
Last Call (Gravel – 2018 | online journal now defunct)
LifeColor Indoor Latex Paints® (jmww – 2018 | selected for Best Microfictions 2019 print anthology | Best of the Net Finalist 2018)
Life Without Anesthesia (Crack the Spine – Issue 231 / 2018 + Print Anthology XVIII)
Aisle Ten: First-Aid ((b)OINK zine – 2017 | online journal now defunct)
Raspberry Jam (Harpoon Review – 2017)
Three Angies (Random Sample Review – 2017)
Should Have (Harpoon Review – 2017)
Ninety-Seven Minutes of Grief on the Mohs Hardness Scale (Maudlin House – 2017)
Gnome (Hypertext Magazine – 2017)
Waiting for the Hoarfrost (The Hopper – 2017)
Penny Wise (shortlisted finalist in the MASH Stories short story competition; now available in audio)
ESSAYS
Books Will Be Books: Enough With Gendered Children’s Lit (Cognoscenti – 2017)
Teaching my daughter the art of negotiation (Washington Post – 2017)
Benthic Love: On Mothering & Foraminifera (Mothers Always Write – 2017)
Avoiding Books, Even Fiction, About Tragedies I Fear (Cognoscenti – 2017)
Pilgrimage (Atlas + Alice – 2016, Issue 8 | Best of the Net Nominee 2017)
After this election, what I can do for my daughter (Washington Post – 2016)
Single Vision, Double Take (The Healing Muse Vol. 16 – 2016) [print only]
About a Book: Loving It, Loaning It, Longing To Get It Back (Cognoscenti – 2016)
The Gifts of Life and Death (Mothers Always Write – 2016)
The Elucidating Light of a Missed Sunset (Gravel – 2016 | journal defunct – no longer available online)
The Flight of the Cardinal (The Hopper – 2016) [print only]
The Case for a Dog (Medium – 2016)
My Feelings on Paper (Club Mid/Scary Mommy – 2015)
Thirteen Windows (Brain, Child – 2015)
Tacos & Tolerance (The Humanist – 2015) [also in print]
Op-Ed: WAHMs, WOHMs, and SAHMs: Deflecting Judgment With Confidence (Literary Mama – 2014)
Silence and Echoes: Stopping Subtle Sexism (Mamalode – 2014)
Long After a Divorce, the Question of Family Photographs Lingers (NYT Motherlode – 2014)
Op-Ed: Awkward Pauses: My Life as a Secular Parent (Literary Mama – 2014)
POETRY + OTHER WRITING
“Lips Laced With Citrus” (Issue 3 of (b)OINK – 2017) [poem]
BOOK REVIEWS
Feckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology edited by Susan Rukeyser (jmww – 2019)
Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018 by Kathy Fish (jmww – 2018)
The Best Small Fictions 2018 edited by Sherrie Flick (Series Ed.) and Aimee Bender (Guest Ed.) (jmww – 2018)
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (The Sunlight Press – 2017)
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt (The Humanist – 2017) [also in print, Mar/Apr 2017 issue]
Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age by Katherine Ozment (The Humanist – 2016) [also in print, July/August 2016 issue]
LEGAL WRITING (Land Use, Zoning + Urban Agriculture)
From May 2013 – January 2015, I wrote the legal advice column for Modern Farmer magazine (online only).
- Starting an Urban Composting Program (January 2015)
- Starting a home-based food business (October 2014)
- Selling raw milk (July 2014)
- Starting a CSA (May 2014)
- Backyard slaughter (pigs) (March 2014)
- Drone use in agriculture (February 2014)
- Cutting Christmas trees in federal forest land (December 2013)
- Backyard slaughter (poultry) (October 2013)
- Raising goats in the city (September 2013)
- Starting a community garden (August 2013)
- Will my chicken coop be legal? (July 2013)
- Front yard gardens/farms (June 2013)
- Urban beekeeping (May 2013)
Zoning for Urban Wildlife and Biodiversity, Zoning Practice, Vol. 1, 2013, American Planning Association (January 2013) [print / online for APA members only]
Complying With Local Zoning Bylaws & Ordinances: Five Pointers for Home-Based Businesses, Home Business Magazine (May/June 2012) [print]
The Patent Paradox: How the Characteristics of Genetically Modified Organisms Take Advantage of Intellectual Property Laws Yet Avoid Disclosure to Consumers, The Natural Farmer (published by the Northeast Organic Farming Association) (Spring 2012 edition) [print]
Raising Backyard Poultry Without Ruffling Too Many Feathers: How to Comply With Local Regulations and Bylaws and Keep Your Neighbors Happy, The Natural Farmer (published by the Northeast Organic Farming Association) (Summer 2011 edition) [print]
“Light Pollution in the U.S.: An Overview of the Inadequacies of the Common Law and State and Local Regulation”, 36 New England L. Rev. 985 (2002)
Other legal writing samples available upon request.