SELECTED WRITING
RECENT
“A Body Is Never Just a Body”: On Shayne Terry’s “Leave” | Los Angeles Review of Books, 2025
“Most Read of 2024: Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood” | Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024
FICTION
“Replying All On The Death Announcement Email” | Electric Literature, 2023
“Spelling Errors” | Hemingway Shorts, Vol. 8, 2023 Contest Finalist
“Female Chronology” and “Because of Necessity” | Epiphany, 2020
“You Never Wish That Upon Anyone” | Map Literary, 2020
“Olive” | Necessary Fiction, 2019
“Griddlecakes or The Word Above Grief” | Platypus Press, 2019 Anthologized in Shorts, Volume II
“Toy Wonderland” | PRISM International, 2019 The Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction 2nd Runner-Up
“When The Train Lurched” | Jellyfish Review, 2019
"Explain It To Me" | Carve Magazine, 2018 The Raymond Carver Short Story Contest Second Place Winner, Narrative Magazine 30 Below Finalist and Pushcart Prize Nominee
“The Performance” | TriQuarterly, 2018
“Bedroom Talk” | Joyland Magazine, 2017
“I'm Not Here” | Cosmonauts Avenue, 2017
“They Tell Me I'm Lucky” | Tin House, 2017
"Waiting" | Bodega, 2016
"For After" | Washington Square Review, 2016
NARRATIVE NONFICTION
“What I’m Trying To Say: Some Thoughts On Translation” | The Porch, 2023
“To The Gambler I Met On Jury Duty” | Letter To A Stranger Anthology (Algonquin Books), 2022
“When Yes Doesn’t Mean Yes” | Electric Literature, 2021
“To The Man No Longer In The Window” | Off Assignment, 2020
“Naked in Japan” | The Rumpus, 2018 Editors’ Pick on Longreads
“Written in Chalk: What It Means To Be Crazy” | The Rumpus, 2017
"What I'll Tell My Children: On Being 'F***able' Under The Regime of President-Elect" | The Rumpus, 2016
“Childhood Diaries (Age 12)” | Early Work, 2017
"A Meet, but Not Cute" | The New York Times (City Room Blog), 2016
LITERARY CRITICISM
“A Body Is Never Just a Body”: On Shayne Terry’s “Leave” | Los Angeles Review of Books, 2025
“Most Read of 2024: Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood” | Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024
“When a Woman Turns into a Wife”: On Sarah Manguso’s “Liars”” | Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024
“Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood: On Miranda July’s “All Fours”” | Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Motherhood” | Words Without Borders, 2023
“Fractal Symmetry: Naheed Phiroze Patel Interviewed by Jenessa Abrams” | BOMB Magazine, 2022
“Reading List: 10 Books About Chance Encounters With Strangers” | Electric Literature, 2022
“Re-Narrating the Lives of Women” | The Los Angeles Review, 2020
“Mary South’s Lonely World of Tech-Abetted Humans” | The Atlantic, 2020
“Their Daughters Were Having Cats Instead of Children” | Guernica, 2019
“Re-Authoring A Life In Reema Zaman’s I Am Yours” | Chicago Review of Books, 2019
“Letter To The Editor” | The New York Times, 2019
"The Strange and The Divine: On Rita Bullwinkel's Debut Collection Belly Up" | The Millions, 2018
"A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley" | The Masters Review, 2018
"Hybrid (kitchen/language/literature) spaces: a conversation with Matthew Baker" | [PANK] Magazine, 2018
"In Our House, We Speak in Hybrid Tongues" | Guernica Magazine, 2018
"Looking Back on 2017: Literature" | BOMB Magazine, 2017
“On Plagiarism & Intertextuality” | Roundtable Discussion, Teachers & Writers Magazine, 2017
"The Tangled World of Bodies" | Guernica Magazine, 2017
"Hunger for Wholeness" | BOMB Magazine, 2017
"The Loss of All Lost Things by Amina Gautier" | KGB BAR LIT, 2016
FOOD WRITING
“Momofuku's Chef De Cuisine - Exclusive” | Tasting Table, 2024
“Review: The Candy Cottage Of Christmas Magic At Rockefeller Center” | Tasting Table, 2023
“Jacques Pépin Wants You To Cook With The Season - Exclusive Interview” | Tasting Table, 2023
“Pati Jinich Wants To Bring The Flavors Of Yucatán To Your Kitchen - Exclusive Interview” | Tasting Table, 2023
“15 Michelin-Starred Restaurants in Paris That Live Up To The Hype” | Tasting Table, 2023
“9 Places For The Best Lobster Rolls in The Hamptons, Ranked” | Tasting Table, 2023
“12 Ways To Make Your Scrambled Eggs Taste Better” | Tasting Table, 2023
“Sausalito’s Best Bakery Is Hiding Behind the Counter of an Old-School Italian Restaurant” | Eater, 2021
TRANSLATION
"Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle: Selection 7" | The Brooklyn Rail, 2017
"Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle: Selections 1-6" | The Offing, 2017
HONORS
American Short(er) Fiction Prize | Semi-Finalist, 2020
The Berlin Writing Prize | Long-list, 2019
CRAFT Short Fiction Prize | Short-list, 2019
Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest | Finalist, 2019
The Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction | Second Runner-Up, 2019
Pushcart Prize | Nominee, 2019
Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest | Finalist, 2018
The 2018 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest | Second Place, 2018
American Short(er) Fiction Prize | Finalist, 2018
Glimmer Train Short Story Award For New Writers | Finalist, 2018
The New York Public Library | Shoichi Noma Scholar, Researcher in Residence, 2018
Glimmer Train Fiction Open Contest | Finalist, 2017
MacDowell | The 2017 Nadya Aisenberg Fellow, Fellowship, 2017
The New York Public Library | Shoichi Noma Scholar, Researcher in Residence, 2017
The Lighthouse Works’ Fellowship | Finalist, 2017
The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers | Nominee, 2017
Narrative Magazine 30 Below Contest | Finalist, 2016
Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest | Finalist, 2016
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference | Fiction Contributor, 2016
The Ucross Foundation | Fellowship, 2016
The Vermont Studio Center | Artist Grant, 2016
Columbia University | Translation Grant, 2016
The Norman Mailer Center | Fiction Fellow, 2016
Cannes International Film Festival | Short Film Corner, 2013