Essays

“At the Pool,” “Honeysuckle,” and “Proof” in Copper Nickel, Fall 2023. 

“Roll Call” in Brevity, September 2023

“Into the Woods” in The Common, August 2023

“When We Are Afraid” in Longreads, June 2023

“The Lush Spot Where the Pattern Changes: A Pandemic Travelogue” in Hunger Mountain, January 2023 (Winner of 2022 Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize)

“Constraints: A Hometown Ode” in The Rumpus, October 2022

“In the Thicket” in Hobart, February 2022

“Up Home” in Shenandoah, December 2021

“Memory Care” in The Critical Flame, September 2021

“The Daily Cover” in Fourth Genre, Spring 2021

“Confessions of a Synesthete” on Salon.com, February 2020

“You Don’t Have to Be Here” in Creative Nonfiction, Fall 2019 (Winner of CNF’s Risk Contest and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2019)

“Required Reading” in The American Scholar, Autumn 2019

“At the Good School” in Terrain.org, February 2019

“When Teachers Strike” in The American Scholar, January 2019

“To Dance or Not to Dance? A Mother’s Question” in New England Review Online, April 2018

“Hollywood’s Reductive Narratives About Schools” in The Atlantic, May 2017

“Common Usage Problems” in Catapult, October 2016

“Failing to Learn” in The Smart Set, March 2016

“Rich Country” in Vela, February 2016

“On Reading” in North American Review, Fall 2015

“Survival Skills at a School in LA” in The American Scholar, Winter 2013

Humor

“Move Over, STEM and STEAM. Here Comes STEAMR!” in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, May 2018

Anthologies

“You Don’t Have to Be Here,” first published in Creative Nonfiction, reprinted in The Women’s Best Travel Writing, Volume 12, edited by Lavinia Spalding

“Look at the Ways We Work Upon Them” published in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, edited by Terrain.org editors Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Derek Sheffield

“Rich Country,” first published in Vela, reprinted in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 11, edited by Lavinia Spalding

“You Can’t Say That in Here” published in What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher, edited by Lee Gutkind

On Teaching and Craft

“Challenging the Canon: Teaching Othello as a Questionable Text” in English Journal, Vol. 111, Issue 1 (September 2021)

Guest Blog Post for North American Review

Interviews

“On Letting Go of Perfection,” interview by Samantha Smith in Creative Nonfiction

“Travel Writer: Anne P. Beatty,” interview by fellow writer, Rolf Pott