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Book Reviews, Essays, and Lists:

Five Best: Classics Retold The Wall Street Journal, 2025

Six Books to Read by the Fire The Atlantic, 2024

Eight Books that Will Inspire You to Move Your BodyThe Atlantic, 2024

The Road to Avonlea LitHub, 2023

Sea Changes, The American Scholar 2023

The Monstrousness Lurking Inside MotherhoodLitHub 2023

When Should Athletes Stop Pushing Through the Pain The Atlantic, 2023 

Skeletons in the Closet The American Scholar, 2020

Finding Community in Isolation in Ordinary Insanity Ploughshares blog, 2020

Parenthood Fear in Orange World and Other Stories and Small Animals Ploughshares blog, 2019

Twenty Classic Books You Should Have Read by Now Real Simple, 2019

Dark Places in Paradise Ploughshares blog, 2018

Wild and Finally Free in Lauren Groff’s Florida JSTOR Daily, 2018

That Common Heart The American Scholar, 2018

In Defense of The Catcher in the Rye Ploughshares blog, 2018

Why Are Friendships Between Teen Girls so Radioactive? Electric Literature, 2017

Cultural Criticism:

The Hardest Part of a Teacher’s Job is Managing Parents Romper, 2024

The Rise of the Concierge Moms Romper, 2024

ChatGPT, Autonomous Strollers, and What We Stand to Lose Wired, 2023

The Imperative to Buy the Best Stroller JSTOR Daily, 2022

Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears LitHub, 2022

The Hunt of the Unicorns Depict a Virgin-Capture Legend in JSTOR Daily, 2021

Is it Time to Reexamine Grading? in JSTOR Daily, 2020

The Pursuit of Pure Marathon JSTOR Daily 2019

A Going and a Return The Millions, 2017

Memoir:

How We Spend Our Days: On Wintering and the Value of Giving and Taking Care in LitHub, 2023

Keeping House iThe American Scholar, 2023

On Teaching and Learning and the Language of Care LitHub, 2022

Bittersweet Lessons from Decades of Running Zibby Mag, 2022

The Bloody Unicorn Guernica, 2020

The Givers The American Scholar, 2020  

Moving Back Home Real Simple, 2018 

An Intimate Eclipse The Millions, 2018

Motherhood Made Me a More Focused Runner ESPNW, 2017

Dragons Live Forever Ravishly, 2017

Delivery The Manifest Station, 2017 

The Day My Dad Stood Up to My Bully Real Simple, 2017 

O Martyr My Martyr The Rumpus,  2016

Prime Time  n+1 2012

To a Young Runner Running Times, 2012 

Features, Interviews & OpEds:

Why We Are Failing to Make the Grade The American Scholar, 2022

A Joyful Expression of Femininity and Play: Talking Dolls with Maria Teresa Hart The Rumpus, 2022

Getting Ahead of Menopause Women’s Running, 2020 

How Instant Access to Grades and Other Data is Contributing to Helicopter Parenting The Washington Post “On Parenting,” 2018

Other Work:

Cultivating a Legacy in the Garden in the Lincoln Center Review, 2023