Featured Writing

Science, Health, and Wellness

Why Covid-19 Patients Are Suffering From Distorted and Phantom Smells — Smithsonian Magazine
• Named a Top Pick, Best Shortform Science Writing
• Selected for Smithsonian Magazine’s Top 25 of 2020
• Excerpt used as an example of how to use regeneration in a sentence, Merriam Webster Dictionary (fun!)

A Celeb Scent Designer Brings Smell Therapy To Dementia Care — Being Patient

9 Fruits and Vegetables that Help Reduce Bloating — Harper’s BAZAAR
• Originally published in Organic Life
• Reprinted in Country Living
• Reprinted in Red Magazine

Personal Essays

Burn This – Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

How I Brought My Nose Back to Life – Narratively
• Selected for the Memoir Monday newsletter
• Reprinted in The Week
• Featured on BBC Outlook

Tunnel Visions — The New York Times

What It’s Like Raising My Son As An “Older” Mom – Good Housekeeping
• Originally published in Organic Life

Stuck in the Bleachers With You — Slate

The Price of Redemption — The Forward

8 Million Stories: Little Curly — The New York Press

Summer Heat/Every Breath You Take — Memoir Mixtapes

Letter to My Teenage Self — Dear Teen Me

Looking For The Winged Dragon of Ra — Betty Confidential