Essays


The NaNoWriMo Novel That Wasn’t…and Then Was

Women Writers, Women’s Books | 2024

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My Poetry Background Helped Save My Memoir…

Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog | 2024

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Injury Information

Dorothy Parker’s Ashes | 2024

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In It Together

Women Writers, Women’s Books | 2024

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Where’s My Sister

(excerpt from Everywhere I Look)

Salt Water | 2024

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Annotated Playlist for Everywhere I Look

Largehearted Boy | 2024

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What Consulting a Psychic Did for My Memoir…and for Me

Cleaver Magazine | 2024

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I See You

Dorothy Parker’s Ashes | 2022

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When You Tawk like a New Yawka

with audio
Dorothy Parker’s Ashes |2022

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From Drawer to Bookstore in Just Twenty-Four Years

Cleaver Magazine | 2023

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Living Large

Women Writers, Women’s Books | 2021

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My Father’s Dream Deferred

Hevria Magazine | 2020

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Let’s Say

Brevity | 2020

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Am I the Burning House?

Wordgathering | Volume 14, Issue 2, 2020

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Writing As an Act of Resistance

Women Writers, Women’s Books | 2020

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Persuasion

Hippocampus Magazine | 2020

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“I have to take those flashes of insight that in poetry are the crux, the thing itself, and explore them more overtly. This requires being a kind of split self. Flawed protagonist, willing to show herself bumbling in the dark, and someone possibly no more than moments older, yet somehow wiser, attempting to make sense of it all.”

Excerpt from “Living Large”

Here. Look.

River Teeth | 2019

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In the House of Alternative Facts

Salon | 2019

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My Secret Superpower

Parents | 2019

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She’s Not There

Lunch Ticket | 2019

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Troll Pox

Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog | 2018

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Deluge

JMWW Journal | 2018

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Finding Myself on the Page

The New York Times | 2017

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On No Longer Hiding and Pretending

The Observer/Guardian | 2017

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Love, Eventually

The New York Times | 2017

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Streaming

Toasted Cheese Literary Journal | 2018

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Writing My Sister Real

The Truth of Memoir by Kerry Cohen

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Seeking Pauline

Full Grown People | 2016

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It’s Time

The Rumpus | 2015

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Should I Feel Anything Yet?

Thread | 2015

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“Catch,” he called now from atop the tree and tossed down what looked like miniature peaches. I lifted my Indian print skirt to form a net as two thoughts vied for my attention. Maybe he could love me. I need to write about this.

Excerpt from “Finding Myself on the Page

Present Imperfect

Brain, Child | 2013

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How I Became a Heartbreaker

More Magazine | 2009

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The Body Divided

The Utne Reader | 2009

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It Takes a Village

New York Family Magazine

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Our Night

New York Family Magazine

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A Conscious Decision

KYSO Flash | 2015

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Throwing Caution Out the Car Window

Ducts | Issue 24, 2010

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“I studied her face for signs of shell shock or sleep deprivation, both of which I saw daily in the mirror. As on her ring finger, there was nothing there.”

Excerpt from “Throwing Caution Out the Car Window