Creative Non-Fiction

"A Quickening in the Stillness," Winter Papers 6, 2020

"Uncertainty has settled on me like snow, quiet and intractable, its secrets buried like seeds in the cold earth. I know about snow. I lived in Canada for eight years. I know its brute implacability, its resistance to a desire for change, until, when the time is right, it melts and reveals the stunned grass beneath."

"Dash the Imagination Against Something Hard," The Puritan, Issue 46: Summer 2019

“I am an academic trying to retrain my hand and my head. I am trying to trick myself into creativity, to let my hand loosen, my head open. Instead of stalking an idea with ruthless determination through a landscape of books, notes, and arguments, I sit remembering what my childhood might have taught me about writing.”