Personal Essays
“Murmuration,” The Good Life Review, October 7, 2024
“Making Even The Smallest Mistake Filled Me With Terror. Then 2 Little Words Changed My Life.” HuffPost Personals, September 21, 2024
“That First Breath.” New York Times, February 27, 2024
“My 20-Year-Old Brother Died By Suicide. Here’s Why I Almost Joined Him.” HuffPost, September 20, 2021
“The Death of Sonny,” 2019 Remember in November Contest Finalist, Hippocampus Literary Magazine, November 4, 2019
“Half-Life,” The Kenyon Review, December 2018
Craft Essays
“Don’t Ruin the Mystery: How to Reflect in Memoir Without Giving It All Away,” Jane Friedman Blog, May 21, 2025
“3 Ways Writers Block Their Success (While Thinking They’re Hard at Work),” Jane Friedman Blog, June 8, 2023
“To Nail Your Book Proposal, Think in Synergies, Not Sections,” Jane Friedman Blog, September 23, 2022
“You Are Not Your Traumas. But You Can Write About Them.” Jane Friedman Blog, February 22, 2022
“Deciding Between Simple and Complex Memoir Structures” Jane Friedman Blog, November 4, 2021
- “REVIEW: Places We Left Behind: a memoir in miniature by Jennifer Lang,” Hippocampus Literary Magazine, September 10, 2023 Issue
- “REVIEW: Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins,” Hippocampus Literary Magazine, April 10, 2023 Issue
- “REVIEW: Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood by Mary Alice Hostetter,” Hippocampus Literary Magazine, January, 17, 2023 Issue
- “REVIEW: Crossing the River: Seven Stories that Saved My Life by Carol Smith,” Hippocampus Literary Magazine, July 2021 Issue
- “A Review of Reema Zaman’s I Am Yours” Brevity, July 2021 Issue
- “Re-examining the Stories We Tell About Our Lives: A Conversation with Memoirist Sharon Harrigan,” Huffington Post, September 2017
Podcast Appearances and Performances
“Making Meaning While Writing Traumatic Stories As Catalysts for Change Featuring Lisa Cooper Ellison” episode 111 of the Freelance Writing Direct Podcast
“Saying Yes to Yourself as a Writer” The Hungry Authors Podcast, May 1, 2023
“Lisa Cooper Ellison Realizes She Can Only Rescue Herself” 2 Lives Podcast, March 1, 2022
“Carry this Grief” Interview on NPR’s With Good Reason, December 5, 2015
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