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Good Tape
PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America, 2014
"I know good tape is a necessary part of documentary work and I want desperately to learn how to create it. But I'm also afraid of it: afraid of what it takes to get it; and afraid of what it does to my scholarship." 
How We Write
PS: Political Science & Politics, Oct 2012
"'What is this writing anyway…And what exactly do we mean when we say a writer?' These questions, so frequently explored by fiction writers and poets, are rarely broached by academics."



narrative nonfiction

Reconstructions 
Lumina/Lux Journal, Dec 2012 
"Watch, as people taste this strange fruit. Catch the rotten flesh as they spit it out."
Backpack
under review
"They smiled and nudged each other, calling "Obruni! Obruni!" ("White man! White man!"), a one word dissertation on the limits of common ancestry."



flash 
nonfiction

Honeymoon
Runner Up, 2011 Halekulani Short Story Contest
"I was twelve when we left Honolulu, and for months afterwards, I tried to get back in my dreams."
Close to Home
Finalist, 2001 Savvy Traveler Essay Contest
"I have nonetheless always known that the bride belongs to the day, and not the other way around."