Some Recent Essays I Love

Jillian Barnet, “A Small, Previously Unknown, Hole in My Heart,” Brevity, Issue 77, Sept. 14, 2024.

Anne Kenner, “Short,” Hippocampus Magazine, Jan. 8, 2024.

Ciara Alfaro, “What Comes Next,” Swamp Pink. March 2023.

Jerome Blanco, “Red Bird, Red Bird,” Juked. April 6, 2020.

Anna Journey, “My Cousin, the Outlaw,” The Southern Review. Spring 2019.

Jedediah Berry, “The Woman who Rewrote Me,” Electric Literature. April 2, 2019.

Jane Armstrong, “Aphasia,” North American Review. Fall 2018.

Leslie Jamison, “I Met Fear on the Hill,” Paris Review. Winter 2018.

Leslie Morris, “She did not Speak,” Georgia Review. Winter 2018.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, “Fate,” Paris Review. Winter 2017.

Farah Peterson, “Illness and Identity,” Ploughshares. Winter, 2016-17.

Kenneth MacLane, “Sparrow Needy,” Kenyon Review. Jan/Feb 2016.

Philip Kennicott, “Smuggler,” Virginia Quarterly Review. Fall 2014.