2025

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Blue Earth Review, The American Goldfinch, forthcoming in December

Hippocampus: Pistol Whipped, September

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2024

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The Rumpus: Carry Me With You, November (Letters To Adoption Series)

Poets&Writers: Picking What to Submit, May/June (Special Section)

"I Wanted My Child To Be A Child," Gifted-ish, edited by Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips, McFarland 

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2023

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SmokeLong Quarterly: Flash In The Classroom: Where's the Heat? July

Cognoscenti: I Loved Sinéad For Her Wild Courage and Rage, August

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2022

 

Atticus Review: Piranha Tank, Spring

Poets&Writers: The Perfectly Balanced Writers Group, Mar/Apr (Special Section)

WIRED: I Gave My Child A Smartphone and It's Been the Best Thing For Her, Feb

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2021

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NBC THINK: Adoption Doesn't Mean Abortion Isn't Needed, Even if Some Supreme Court Justices Think So, Dec

Severance Magazine: I Didn't Understand My Hair. Then I Met My Birth Parents, Dec

The Independent: My Birth Certificate Was Legally Changed. At 48, I Saw The Real Version For the First Time, Nov

The New York Times:Tiny Love Stories: Of Wings and Wind, (2nd down), Nov

Brevity Blog: Getting to the Truer Version of the Story, Nov

In These Times: School's Open. But What About the Year That I, And Other Disabled Students, Lost?  (with Freyja Christian), Sept

Brevity Blog: Writing Groups: How? Why? Sept

Entropy: The Story My Body Already Knew, Aug    

Cognoscenti: COVID Helped Me Show My Parents I Love Them, Aug

Brevity Blog:How Writers Learn and Grow, June

Cognoscenti:My Disabled Daughter Showed Me That None of Us Are Independent, April

Cognoscenti:What Norton Juster's 'The Phantom Tollbooth' Taught Me About This Life, March

Brevity Blog:Writing A Memoir Can Be Dangerous Work. Protect Yourself! Feb

Hippocampus Magazine:I Found My Writing Self On Zoom, Jan

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2020

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Uncomfortable Revolution:Why I Stopped Calling Myself A Special Needs Parent, December 

Pidgeonholes: Wait For It To Be Over, November 

The Washington Post: My Disabled Daughter Isn't Your Inspiration Porn, January 

The Washington Post: No, I'm Not An Amazing Mom Just Because My Child Has Special Needs, January 

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2019 and earlier

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The Washington Post: Instead of 'Mothering' And 'Fathering,' Let's Start To See All Of The Work As 'Parenting'  7/2019

The Washington Post: What Self-Care Looks Like For The Sandwich Generation (And It's Not What You Think)  5/2019

The Washington Post: What My Daughter's Make-A-Wish Trip Taught Me About Parenting, And Myself  4/2019

The New York Times: A Special Needs Parent Against My Will, Learning My Own Adaptive Lesson

5/2015

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R E C O G N I T I O N

Honorable Mention in the Memoirs/Personal Essay category of the 94th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition for The American Goldfinch, 2025

Finalist, DeGroot Foundation’s Courage to Write Grant 2024

AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program Participant, Season 20, Spring 2024

Honorable Mention, The Fountain Magazine Essay Contest 2020-2021 

Unruly Retreat Recipient for womxn who parent, 2021 (postponed due to COVID)

Pauline Scheer Fellow at GrubStreet, Boston's creative writing center, 2020-2021 

Named Parent-Writer Author Fellow of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, 2020 (could not attend due to COVID)