My personal essays and other pieces of creative nonfiction writing:
To learn more about my health journey, travels, and constantly evolving perspectives on life, I welcome you to read my personal essays and other pieces of creative nonfiction writing.
Publications:
“Recovering Your Creative Spirit in Grief,” for the blog of Hospicare (2022)
“Opening to the Moment,” in Crossroads Blog of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (2021)
“I Am Moments,” a collage published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (2020)
“Orchid Dad,” in Tompkins Weekly (2019)
“Roads to and from Nogales,” in Stone Canoe (awarded the 2018 S.I. Newhouse School Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
“Three Corners of the Big Easy,” in Signs of Life, affiliated with Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery (2016)
“Under the Skin,” in Ars Medica 11, no. 2 (2016)
“Tangle of Lines,” in the spring issue of Creative Nonfiction (2015);
(awarded honorable mention in the 2014 Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction, judged by John D’Agata)“Eleven months, one week, four days: Japan in fragments,” in The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35 (2013)
Various stories in IC View (2010): Profile #1, Profile #2, Profile #3, Feature #1
Various film reviews (2009) in California Literary Review