Essays

Becoming a Mother While Estranged from Your Own. Elle. April 2021.

I Didn't Consider My Marriage Interracial. But I Wasn't Being Totally Honest With Myself. Time. March 2021.

The Trouble With My Gut. The Cut. July 2020.

Brooklyn BornParis Review Daily. May 2018.

Who Gets to Write About Gentrification? Lit Hub. January 2018.

My Editor Was BlackCatapult. December 2017. 

Reorientation. Winner of the Cosmonauts Avenue Non-Fiction Prize, judged by Roxane Gay. September 2017.

Lila. Amazon Original Stories. July 2019.

Mad about the Curl: On Discovering My Natural Hair. The Sunday Times (UK). June 2019.

What I Learned About Love When I Became Obsessed With ‘Twilight’ In My 30s. Bustle. June 2019.

Albums of Our Lives: Nirvana's NevermindThe Rumpus. June 2015.

More Than Its PartsA Practical Wedding. July 2014.

Fire Escape. Arts & Letters. Spring 2012.

FontibónThe Acentos Review. August 2011.

Brooklyn Bridge ParkThe Fordham Observer. July 2011. 

Remembering When Brooklyn Was MineThe New York Times. February 2011. 



Anthologies

Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed. Ed. by Saraciea Fennell. Flatiron, November 2022.

Cosmonauts Avenue Anthology. June 2019.

This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. Ed. by Margot Case & Kelly McMasters. Seal Press, Nov. 2017. 

Best of Kweli: An Aster(ix) Anthology. Ed. by Angie Cruz & Laura Pegram. Spring 2017.