SELECTED ESSAYS & ARTICLES
“The Last Biscuit,” Tiny Love Story, The New York Times
“Teaching Brevity: Brian Arundel’s ‘The Things I’ve Lost’” Brevity Blog
“Make the Reader Feel Something. Please. Show and Tell,” Cleaver Magazine
”It’s All in the Details: The Importance of Naming Things,
Using Sensory Description, and Giving Specific Examples,” Brevity Blog
“Doodling My Way to Writing,” Brevity Blog
“The Letter that Should Never Be Written,” Brevity Blog
"Katy Perry Is Crooning and Won't Stop Just Because I Did," Brevity
"Make Your Memoir’s “Characters”—Yes, Those Real Ones—More Real to the Reader," Brevity Blog
"Imagine Them Reading Your Book," Brevity Blog
“A Case, Diagnosis, and Its Findings,” The Rumpus
“The person that marriage has made me become,” Johnson City Press
“For better or worse, but always for lunch,” Johnson City Press
“Writing lines that define who I am,” Change Seven blog
“The Last Kiss,” The Louisville Review
“When a literary life takes a turn to fiction," Johnson City Press
“An Unexpected Light,” Mud Season Review
“Working a Wild Shift at the Rotary Wheel” Johnson City Press