Newsletter
The Loneliness Project, Substack
Essays
“The Octopus” in Ninth Letter, Honorable Mention Regeneration Award 2023
“The Shifting Shape of Love” in Orion Magazine
“Amidst Climate Grief, I’m Searching for Joy” at The Tyee
“The Kind of Money That Can Change Your Life” in Women Talk Money, Anthology ed. Rebecca Walker
Trying to Conceive Feels a Little Bit Less Awful than Not Trying at Catapult
#MeToo and the Cult of Desirability at The Rumpus
“On Anniversaries” in Love Me True, Anthology ed. Fiona Tinwei Lam and Jane Silcott
Writing Love and Writing Essays on the Powell’s Books Blog
To Stay in Love, Sign on the Dotted Line in The New York Times, Modern Love
“Middle School Miracles” in Skirt
To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This in The New York Times, Modern Love
“We Talked About Love” in Under the Gum Tree
“Hypocorism or On Love and Naming” in Folio
“Grind, Dose, Tamp, Flush, Pull, Drink” in Under the Sun
“Contracting Iris” in The Fieldstone Review
“Nor Ever Chaste” in Italy, A Love Story, Anthology
Journalism
There Is So Much More than the Nuclear Family, Even Now at The Atlantic
What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse at The Atlantic
Op-Eds
Make friends, prepare for climate change at The Narwhal
Non-monogamous relationships seem to be on the rise. Is that surprising? at The Guardian
The Future of Marriage at RSA Journal
Women Can Reclaim Power Over Our Bodies—By Talking About Them at The Guardian
Men Have No Idea What Women Go Through to Have Children at The Guardian
Chances are you know a sexual assault survivor. Do you know what to say? at The Guardian
Five Myths About Valentine’s Day at The Washington Post
It’s Time to Reimagine Consent in our Romantic Lives at The Guardian
Forget ‘Friends’—Why We Really Need to Update the Love Stories We’re Obsessed With at Glamour
You Should Care about My Life at The Walrus
Five Myths About Love at The Washington Post
“The Canadian Sandwich” in The Vancouver Review
Advice
A Better Version of Love at The Rumpus
How To Make Friends After Thirty at The Rumpus
A Valentine to Aging Women at The Rumpus
How to Trust After Trauma at The Rumpus
Two Roads Diverged at a Picket Fence at The Rumpus
The Power and Limits of Labels at The Rumpus
Am I Too Fat for Love? at The Rumpus
How Do You Break a Heart at The Rumpus
Happy Wife, Happy Life at The Rumpus
Why Do Men Always Want to Settle Down? at The Rumpus
The Emotional Labor of Listening to Men Complain at The Rumpus
Art
Surviving the Anxiety of Publishing by Drawing About It at LitHub
Cover photo, FreeFall Magazine vol. XXIV no. 2
Reviews and Criticism
In this love story, a few bits of wisdom amid woefully out-of-date ‘lessons’ in The Washington Post
Rethinking the Breakup in Canadian Literature
Mandy Len on Brian Doyle at Essay Daily