Canopy of oak tree from below

“Of Seasons”

LitHub

(featured on The Poets Corner “The Lyric Essay”)

Windows of university building

"The Professor of Longing”

Diagram

Payphone against brick wall

“Toward a Country and Western Song”

Gulf Coast Literary Journal

(featured on The Poets Corner “The Lyric Essay”)

Best American Essays 2023 Notable

Talbot at 27 reclining on the hood of her Jeep.

“All or Nothing,

Self Portrait

at Twenty-Seven”

Brevity

Abandoned motel with one wing covered by ivy

“The Texas Motel”

River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction

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Welcome Sign above rotary wall phone

"Of Phones”

Short Reads

(originally Hotel Amerika)

outline of treeline at night

“The Bend of Memory”

AGNI

Painting of male nude in chair with head in one hand

“How To Begin”

Slice Magazine