You can learn a lot about a person by reading their work. Below is a selection of my publications, organized by genre: journalism, personal essays, fiction, poetry, books, and academic scholarship. Each list is in reverse-chronological order; more recent publications are at the top of each section.
Journalism
I cover gaming, tech, health, and identity.
- “Explore Your LGBTQ+ Identity at Any Age” — Next Avenue.
- “Avoiding the ‘Curse of Knowledge’ in Your Writing” — Inside Higher Ed.
- “Close Reading: How Writing Book Reviews Made Me a Better Writer” — Poets & Writers, May/June 2024. Print only.
- “Opinion: What People Don’t Understand About Being Bisexual” — CNN Opinion.
- “How to Handle Online Harassment When It Happens to You” — WIRED.
- “The Benefits of Gentler Hobbies” — Next Avenue.
- “Bi Book Club: FLY WITH ME” — bi.org.
- “From Pixels to Playlists: The Nostalgia of Game Soundtracks” — Inverse.
- “Bi Book Club: SOME GIRLS DO” — bi.org.
- “Cha-Cha Your Way to Better Health” — Next Avenue.
- “Bi Book Club: TIME TO SHINE” — bi.org.
- “The IRL Lesson I Learned from Gaming: Resilience” — Inverse.
- “Bi Book Club: OLD ENOUGH” — bi.org.
- “Nintendo Has a Silent Problem With ‘Zelda’ Film” — Bloomberg Opinion.
- “Are Your Sneakers Hurting You?” — Next Avenue.
- “An Honest Review of Woxer’s Baller Underwear” — Bustle.
- “How to Navigate Your Kid’s Coming Out” — Scary Mommy.
- “Opinion: The New Zelda Has Finally Arrived. It’s Time for a Rethink on Video Games.” — CNN.
- “When the Little Things Matter” — Inside Higher Ed.
- “The Unicorn Scale: Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town” — bi.org.
- “How to Explore Your Local City Like an Introvert” — Introvert, Dear.
- “The Five Queer Books that Helped Me Come Out” — Xtra.
- “Bi Book Club: PERFECT ON PAPER” — bi.org.
- “5 Metal Zelda Covers to Listen to While You Wait for Tears of the Kingdom“ — Paste Magazine.
- “Bi Book Club: TOMBOYLAND” — bi.org.
- “What do the Pandemic and Tetris Have in Common? Game Transfer Phenomena, for One.” — Paste Magazine.
- “For Kids in the Hospital, Video Games are Part of Recovery” — WIRED.
- “How Can Video Games Help with Language Acquisition?” — Paste Magazine.
- “Sorry, ‘Sports Vagina’ Isn’t a Real Condition” — Giddy.
- “How to Cope With Post-Game Depression” — WIRED.
- “Speedrunning and Nostalgia” — Paste Magazine.
- “Static Stretching and Dynamic Stretching: Which Is Better?” — Next Avenue.
- “Three Ways to Ace Your Pitch” — Funds for Writers.
- “The Complicated Queerness in Breath of the Wild“ — Videodame.
- “There’s No Age Limit in Tennis” — Next Avenue.
- “Diversity and Video Games: Story of Seasons and the Journey to Same-Sex Marriage” — Videodame.
Personal Essays & Creative Nonfiction
- “Funny Women: Query Letter for My Totally Publishable Novel” — The Rumpus.
- “‘Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit’ Helped Me Stop Being Ashamed of Being Bisexual” — Huff Post.
- “Driving Directions” — Words & Sports Quarterly, vol. 2, no 4.
- “If Growing Pains Were a Round of Call of Duty Zombies” — Videodame.
- “I’m Demisexual” — Insider.
- “I Wrote About Not Shaving For A Month — And The Backlash Made One Thing Perfectly Clear” — Huffington Post.
- “Learning Self-Compassion (With a Little Help from Zelda)” — Into the Spine.
- “What Biden’s loan relief plan getting axed feels like to someone with $0 in college debt” — NBC Think.
- “So They Didn’t Say Yes: How A Scholarship Rejection Taught Me to Work Smarter” — Author Magazine.
- “I Didn’t Shave My Legs for a Month: I Learned a Surprising (and Sad) Lesson” — NBC Think.
- “News Flash: I’m Bi!” — bi.org.
- “Destiny” — The Winnow: Pop Culture Issue (She-Ra). Pp. 16-17.
- “Here’s Why the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Won’t Work” — Ms. Magazine.
- “I Like Your Style: How The Prince of Tennis Helped Me Shape My Butch Fashion Sense” — Anime Feminist.
- “The English Teacher Who Taught Me How to Hear” — The Wisdom Daily.
- “The Complicated Process of Rejecting Heteronormativity” — DAME Magazine.
- “Confessions of an Ex-Sexist” — MTV.
Fiction
- “The First Step” — Five South: The Weekly. **Longlisted for the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50!
- “Dear Mx. Ortiz” — The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.
- “How to Build a Pyramid Fire in the Rain” — jmww.
- “Relief” — Fewer Than 500.
- “Safety Blanket” — 50-Word Stories.
- “Untitled” (Twitter fiction) — Nanoism.
- “Crescendo” — Penworks, 2013. 1st place in adult fiction.
Poetry
- “in the hotel, on the eve of district playoffs” — Red Eft Review.
- “Zelda with a Pearl Earring” — Videodame.
- “A Prayer During Job Selection in The Game of Life (1991) by Hasbro” — Sheila-Na-Gig.
- “I Know Where Princess Peach Keeps Her Dish Detergent” — Into the Spine.
- “Self-Portrait in the Key of Masc” — HAD.
- “Blind Spot” — Punk Monk Magazine.
- “Storm” — The Wild Word, Issue 66: Wintering. Includes audio!
- “I Might’ve Had a Crush on Robin Tunney” — The Daily Drunk.
- “Дорожное Радио” — Pollux Issue 3. Includes audio!
- “Questions I Wish I Asked My Middle School Friends” — The Spotlong Review Issue II.
- “career aspirations, 21” — The Spotlong Review Issue II.
- “Believing” — Green Ink Collection 8: Roots.
- “Drills” — Stymie.
- “A Letter to My 25-Year-Old Self” — Wild Tongue.
- “At Connecticut River Motocross” — Room magazine 42.3.
- “Why Do You Want to Live Forever, Anyway?” — Into the Void 14.
- “Acquaintanceship” — Young Ravens Literary Review 7.
Books
- Catch the Moon anthology, by Grey Sparrow Press. Associate editor.
- Management and Leadership in Social Work: A Competency-Based Approach, by Todd Rofuth and Julie Piepenbring. Copyeditor.
Academic Scholarship
- “Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace“ — Irish Journal of American Studies.
I also served as a contributing writer for Pop Culture Uncovered. A list of my articles can be found here.