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.
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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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Give and Bake
If the muffins had been good, we’d have eaten them and gone to bed. But the story of their catastrophic badness: that, we could forever savor.
Taste, Memory
“I can tell I love you because I want to give you a bite of whatever I’m eating.”
The Ghost That Sits on Your Chest
My mom’s cellphone rang, but there was nothing, no notification of any missed call. She said, “That was probably your dad’s ghost.”
