Reported Pieces and Features
- Imagining a More Accessible Society
Four innovators are dedicating their time to forging a more inclusive world for disabled and chronically ill people.
Chicago Booth Magazine (10/24/22) - The Neglected Tale of the Tougaloo Nine and their 1961 Read-In
In the 1960s, nine Black students put their lives on the line to fight for equal access to public libraries. I interviewed protestor Geraldine Edwards Hollis to learn more about their bold action.
Book Riot (10/26/22) - The Ever-Growing Challenges of Getting Books into Prisons
I talked to organizers across the U.S. about their efforts to get books and educational materials into the hands of incarcerated people. This piece would inspire me to eventually join one such organization myself.
Book Riot (3/5/2021) - How the USPS Chooses its Literary Stamps
How does the post office decide what stamp designs to pursue? I interviewed the director of stamp services at USPS to find out.
Book Riot (10/2/2021)
Book Lists and Guides
- Ten Excellent Middle-Grade Novels that Adults Will Love Too
Observer (1/7/2025) - Books That Will Break Your Heart & Put It Back Together Again
Book Riot (3/28/2024) - 20 Must-Read Queer Books in Translation from Around the World
Book Riot (3/5/2021)
Critical Essays and Reviews
- Garth Greenwell Enters The Kingdom of the Ill in “Small Rain”
CHIRB (9/5/2024) - Why Are Horror Novels so Obsessed with Mushrooms?
Book Riot (1/24/22) - The Problem of the Quest Narrative: Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field
Ploughshares (7/16/2019) - More Than a School: An Upcoming Book Tells the History and Traumas of School Closings on the South Side
South Side Weekly (8/9/2018)
Interviews and Q&As
- An Alumnus Author with Stars in his Eyes
Chicago Booth Magazine (1/29/2021) - Choosing Leadership: Professor Linda Ginzel on her New Workbook
Chicago Booth Magazine (9/19/2018) - A Q&A with V.E. Schwab: On Creativity and Transparency
Book Riot (5/13/2019)
Personal Essays and Opinion Pieces
- Why We’re Okay with Life Being Weirder than Fiction
Book Riot (2/4/2021) - Characters Shouldn’t Have to Kiss to be Queer
Book Riot (2/17/20) - Why Arya and Sansa’s Sisterhood Means Everything to Me
Book Riot (5/28/2019) - Why You Can’t Read the Classics too Early
Book Riot (8/13/2018)
On Mental and Physical Health
- My Heart Condition was Dismissed as Me Being Fat and Anxious
The FeMedic (3/10/2021) - 11 Books on the Bias Against Women in Healthcare and Medicine
Book Riot (10/15/2021) - Seeing My Queer, Ill Self in Jenn Shapland’s New Memoir
Book Riot (3/5/2021)
Travel and Literary Tourism
- My Literary Adventure through Barcelona
Book Riot (5/19/20) - A Book Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
Book Riot (2/10/2019) - Literary Tourism: a Legacy of Poetry in Buffalo, New York
Book Riot (2/27/2018)
Works I’ve Edited
- The Best in Baseball
Chicago Booth Magazine (April 2023) - The Future of Work for Women
Chicago Booth Magazine (January 2023) - A Year Like No Other with Rodney Jones Tyson, Chief Risk Officer at Baird
Chicago Booth Magazine (Winter 2021) - Leading through the Fog: Alumni Reflect on Leading through Uncertainty
Chicago Booth Magazine (Spring 2021) - Around the World, Around the Clock
Chicago Booth Magazine (Spring 2017)