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 Born. Paris Review Daily. May 2018.
Who Gets to Write About Gentrification? Lit Hub. January 2018.
My Editor Was Black. Catapult. 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 Nevermind. The Rumpus. June 2015.
More Than Its Parts. A Practical Wedding. July 2014.
Fire Escape. Arts & Letters. Spring 2012.
Fontibón. The Acentos Review. August 2011.
Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Fordham Observer. July 2011.
Remembering When Brooklyn Was Mine. The New York Times. February 2011.
Interviews & Reviews
Elizabeth Acevedo's Inheritance is a Searing Indictment of Colonized Beauty Standards. Elle. June 2022.
Year in Reading. The Millions. December 2021.
When Friends Find Themselves on Opposite Sides of a Tragedy. New York Times Book Review. October 2021.
Bandmates, Brothers, Best Friends: Why I’ll Always Believe in the Magic of Hanson. Nylon. October 2018.
Crystal Hana Kim Doesn't Want to Write the Perfect Korean. Electric Lit. August 2018.
Sound Takes: Psychic Reader. The Rumpus. September 2015.
Lyrical Impulse: An Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo. Guernica. August 2014.
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.