Author of the novel Harmless Like You. Winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, Starling Days is out in April 2020. Short work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Atlantic, The Harvard Review, and NPR's Selected Shorts.
More by this author
Is the Green You See, the Green I See?
As my brain absorbed these other names, the colors seemed to shift. The names themselves were changing how I saw the colors.
The Cactus Mother: Nine Plants, Zero Kids
I used to tell people I needed to write a novel before I could consider offspring. I have written one novel. I am considering purchasing a fern.
The Woman Scared of Her Own Kimono
I feel unworthy to wear the uniform of my inheritance.
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For the Love of Nooks: A Comic
I spent a lot of time in my nook, tucked away and dreaming.
I Do Not Want to Write Today: A Comic
I don’t want to write today. I don’t want to write about violence today. I don’t want to write about honor or duty or respect today.
My Mother, My Ex, and Facial Feminization Surgery: A Comic
I believe so strongly in the beauty and autonomy of body transformation, but I’m worried that will erase the small visible echoes of my (and my mother’s) history of survival.
