Writing

Essays and Other Articles

“Danger Zone,” Macalester Today, Winter 2022

“Why I Started a Podcast with My Writing Partner,” Nicole Dieker, June 2021

“A Space to GLOW,” Macalester Today, Summer 2020

“My Heart Will Go On,” Talking Writing, September 2019

“Fighting for Justice with Faith,” Macalester Today, Fall 2019

“Mise en scene in Marseille,” Wanderlust, June 2019

“Running with Toni Morrison,” Breathe Free Press, Vol. 3, April 2018

“The Elements of Fiction: on Science in Fiction,” Distillations blog, December 2017

“On Beat,” Brevity, November 2017


History, Public History, and Museums

“Out of History’s Margins,” Macalester Today, Summer 2021

“Lecture Notes: Rumors in History,” Macalester Today, Winter 2021

“Points of Struggle, Points of Pride,” Macalester Today, Spring 2020

“Life and Death in Dioramas,” Lady Science, September 2017

“Conserving the Stories They Tell,” Distillations blog, September 2017

“A Recipe For Good Health,” Distillations, Spring 2017

“The Joy of Cooking,” Distillations blog, February 2017

“Women in Science,” Distillations, winter 2016

“How to Tell A True Resistance Story: Fiction and History.” The Writer’s Chronicle, December 2014


Intergenerational Dialogue

“Best Science Museums and Places to Explore Science in Philly,” Mommy Poppins, September 2022

“Be Less Thrifty and More Thoughtful,” The Billfold, January 2019

“A Generation Apart,” Lady Science, May 2018

“Stories from the Ages,” Horizons column, fall 2015-present


Short Fiction

“Landmark Decision,” Dogwood, May 2020


Book Reviews

Review: Sharon Harrigan’s Half, The Rupture, December 2020

Review: Patricia Fara’s A Lab of One’s Own, Lady Science, May 2019

Review: Elissa Washuta’s Starvation Mode, Barrelhouse, December 2018

Review: Stephen McGann’s Flesh and Blood, Distillations, Fall 2018

Review: John McNally’s The Promise of Failure, Brevity, August 2018

Review: Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Journal of the History of Biology, April 2018

A Conversation with Tabitha Blankenbiller, Split Lip Magazine, April 2018

Review: Nathalia Holt’s Rise of the Rocket Girls, Distillations, Summer 2017

Review: Madeleine Mysko’s Stone Harbor Bound, Neworld Review, Vol. 8. No. 57, Summer 2015