Portfolio
PORTFOLIO
Mainstream Magazine Essays
Journalism
Manistee News Advocate
“Flight from Pain” - Michigan Press Association Award Winner
Social Media
Instagram video to promote HuffPost essay, “I Pursued Motherhood Despite Past Psychosis.”
Pill Baby
Launched a podcast and online magazine to tell the stories of women pursuing motherhood with a mental illness.
Promotional Instagram post (pictured).
Magazine Design
Served as managing editor for a print lifestyle magazine, coordinating a freelance team, editing, and performing all design work.
Literary Essays
“Running After Her”
“The Prince’s Blade: Self-Harm and Motherhood.” Majuscule Magazine. June 2025.
"Scar Shine." Mount Hope Magazine. November 2023.
"Witness to the Aria.” Cleaver Magazine, Spring 2023.
“Blackbird Dreams.” CRAFT. Jan. 12, 2022.
“Neonate.” San Fedele Press. 2020.
“A Different Kind of Home.” IHRAF Publishes, 2020.
Lyric Essays
“Appetite.” Cleaver Magazine. Summer 2024.
“Haldol and the Blue Horses.” Atticus Review. April 2024.
“Rash Prayers.” Awakenings Review. Spring 2023.
“Text Exchange: Dr. B & Meg”
Mixed media piece created with a soldering iron and digital editing.
Honors & Awards
Emerging Artist Award, Cleaver, “The Testament of My Body”
Bread Loaf Katharine Bakless Nason Contributor Scholarship in Nonfiction
Finalist, Prose Contest, Fugue, “Loving the Manatee"
Finalist, Creative Nonfiction Contest, CRAFT, “Blackbird Dreams”
Pushcart Nomination, International Human Rights Art Festival, “A Different Kind of Home”
1st Place, Essay, Creators of Justice Literary Competition, International Human Rights Art Festival, “A Different Kind of Home”
Michigan Press Association Award, News Enterprise Reporting
Hopwood Undergraduate Creative Writing Award, Fiction, University of Michigan
Hopwood Undergraduate Creative Writing Award, Essay, University of Michigan
Hopwood Underclassmen Creative Writing Award, Essay, University of Michigan