Best place to receive overdose prevention and response training
Chicago Reader | 2023

Best housing worker who takes no shit while getting shit done
Chicago Reader | 2023

Best action to take when an unhoused Chicagoan is sleeping across three seats on the train
Chicago Reader | 2023

Swimming in the atomic waters of the largest Godzilla convention on earth
Chicago Reader | 2022

Judas Christ Superstar: Easter thoughts on being just
Chicago Reader | 2022

Best line: the Red Line
Chicago Reader | 2022

Drinking and surviving it
Chicago Reader | 2021

To Keep a Sluttish House
The Millions | 2019

My Brother, My Self
Longreads | 2018

Going Hungry at the Most Prestigious MFA in America
Lit Hub | 2018 (excerpted in The Chronicle Review, 2019)

The Limits of Looking: Landmarks in Iowa History and the White Gaze
Cardinal Tales, Iowa State Special Collections and University Archives | 2018

Learning to Swim in a Sea of Uncertainty
Longreads | 2017

A History of Violence: Walking the Blood-Soaked Shores of Spirit Lake
Lit Hub | 2017

To Do The Holding
North American Review | 2016 (reprinted in Utne Reader, 2017)

On Running and Street Harassment
The Toast | 2015

The Climb
Story Club Magazine | 2014