More Publications
Work in Anthologies
“I like to be in America,” in Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities, Inkyard, 2023
6-word essay in Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity, Edited by Michele Norris, Simon & Schuster, 2024
“Long Live the Fatherless Children,” in We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, U of MN Press, 2021
“What Didn’t Happen,” in Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, WW Norton, 2014
“Fishing,” in Sky Blue Water: Great Stories for Young Readers, University of Minnesota Press, 2018
“The Beginning of the World,” in Oh Baby: True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love, InFact Books, 2015
“Confession,” in Love and Profanity: True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life, Capstone Press, 2016
“None Taken,” in The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century, Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes, Tara Betts, 2Leaf Press, 2017
Essays
Travel + Leisure, “Thicker Than Water,” 2023
Star Tribune, “A Good Night,” Holiday essay, 2021
Midway Journal, “Muscle Memory,” 1st place, -1000 Below Contest, 2021
Brevity, “Finishing a Memoir” (craft essay), 2020
UMP Blog, Magical Realism for Non-Believers, 2019
Chautauqua, “English as a Second Language,” 2017
The Scene As I Imagined It, Red Bird Chapbooks, (Purchase the chapbook here), 2016
apt: a literary magazine, “Something Recognizable,” 2015
apt: a literary magazine, “On Ten Years of apt,” 2015
Hippocampus Magazine, “The Chase,” 2013
McSweeney's Internet Tendency, “The Ten Commandments of Pointless Office Meetings,” 2012
Literary Mama, “Frozen Concentrate,” 2013
Monkeybicycle, “What goes in a package to my father in Colombia,” 2013
Hippocampus Magazine, “Echo of a Fall” (Pushcart nomination), 2011
Hippocampus Magazine, “Playing Poohstocks,” 2011
Dos Passos Review, “What Didn't Happen,” 2011
Midway Journal, “The Falls,” 2010
Colere: A Journal of Cultural Exploration, “Better Wall Than a Window,” 2010
The Talking Stick, “Families Have a Mom and a Dad,” (second place for creative nonfiction), 2009
Frostwriting, “Impressionist,” 2009
apt: a literary journal, “Boys at Play,” 2008