selected works

Nonfiction:

“The Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier,” excerpted from The Nutcracker Chronicles, Nob Hill Gazette, November 2024

“If Words Could Dance,” Writer’s Digest, October 2024

“Ballerina Farm and the ways dancers embrace their life after hanging up their pointe shoes,” Salon, August 2024

“The Choreography of a Friendship,” Pangyrus, July 2023

“Break Through,” Bellingham Review, Spring 2023

“Mom Reflects on Micro-Preemie Twins’ Tumultuous Beginning.” Vitals, January 2023

“The Shine Inside,” Santa Fe Writers Project, December 2022

“Dancing on the Blade,” Under the Sun, May 2021
Recipient of the 2021 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Award for Nonfiction and the 2022 New Millennium Award for Nonfiction

“Breaking Character,” Longridge Review, January 2021

“Dreaming of a New Nutcracker,” Zócolo Public Square, December 24, 2020

"The Last Innocent Moment," New Ohio Review, December 2020

“Sawed,” Burningwood Literary Journal, October 2020

"Fictional Bodies,” Soundings East, Salem State University, July 2020

"Smooth Sales," Publishers Weekly, February 2020

"Memoir as a Flower Arrangement," Writer's Digest, March, 2020

"Poke,” Redivider, December, 2019

"Tiny Rituals," Mothers Always Write, October 2019

“Fully Aware,” Multiples Illuminated, November 2018

Fiction:

“Limelight,” Santa Fe Writers Project, Spring 2023

“Narrowly,” Jet Fuel Review, Issue 25, Spring 2023

Recordings

In conversation with Lisa Smith for The Nutcracker Chronicles, Big Blend Radio, November 2024

“Intermission,” excerpt from Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home
Recording begins at 51:50
13th Annual Motherhood & Words with Kate Hopper, April 2019

“To Dance!” KQED Perspectives, December 2014