I write creative nonfiction about single parenting across languages and borders. I am working on a memoir, Single in Five Languages. Part divorce memoir, part travelogue, and part portrait of the anthropologist as a young woman, Single is an interrogation of (un)belonging through the lens of a single mom whose job is to understand other people’s cultures and identities—even as she struggles to come to terms with her own.
I was recently named a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee after having been a finalist in 2022. Read more about the award and what it means for parenting artists here.
Here are some recent personal essays:
All-American, The Sun
Someone Else’s Language, Guernica (winner of the Wisconsin Writer’s Kay W. Leven Short Nonfiction Award!)
The Longest Day of the Year, Nowhere Travel Magazine (Finalist fall 2021 travel writing contest)
The Bedroom, First-Person Singular
May You Bury Me, The Sun
The Ice Cream, Tin House
Fieldwork with a Five Year Old, Writing on the Edge (Winner of the 2018 Donald Murray Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
Here are some links to interviews with me about my creative writing:
An Inner State, The Sun
Writing and Research as an Academic Mom, Rhet Comp Mothers
An Interview with Kate Vieira, Art Lit Lab
You can find more commentary on what I’m publishing and where I’m traveling on my blog!