What was up with us all having that one friend/summer camp acquaintance who made a Nintendo DS flipbook of staggering artistic quality to Avril Lavigne's "Alice?"

I wrote a review of Jamie Hood's thoughtful and devastingly amazing memoir, Trauma Plot. Also, my review is a defense of the craft of trauma writing itself. Check it out in @sanantoreview.bsky.social! #bookreview #writing #review #memoir

“There is love to be found within the horrors...” Horror as a Crucible for Connection in @zefrrr.bsky.social’s Uncanny Valley Girls, a new book review by @anahein.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/oXYwyV1

I have a new review up at @therumpus.net about Zefyr Lisowski's amazing horror essay collection, Uncanny Valley Girls. Check it out if you like horror and finding a soft hand to hold in the dark! Many thanks to @jbrookewrites.bsky.social for their edits on this! therumpus.net/2026/04/10/h...

I wrote another article for @mothership.blog about my bad habit of save-scumming in games to achieve perfection as well as my perfectionist tendencies in general. Also one of my new fave indie games! Many thanks to @zoehhannah.com for her thoughtful edits on this piece!

Hey! I wrote about how the Nancy Drew point-and-click-adventure games function as Gothic texts and how Nancy is a textbook Gothic heroine. If you like spooky adventure games, you should check it out! Up now on @mothership.blog! Many thanks to @zoehhannah.com for her amazing edits on this!

New essay up over at @electricliterature.com where I gush about how cool friendship is, also writing about friendship and writing through friendship and the friendship between authors I admire. In short, yay friends! Also, yay to my editor, Willem Marx! electricliterature.com/friendship-i...

This one is for all my literary Swifties! A review of Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift, edited by Kristie Frederick Daugherty. Up now on Compulsive Reader! compulsivereader.com/2025/06/13/i...

New essay out about playing a wacky romantic puzzle game with my ex immediately after we broke up--also what it means to choose a partner and how decisions construct life narratives. Up now on AFM! Many thanks to Lucy McKeon for editing! feeld.co/magazine/ple...

I have a new essay up at @therumpus.net where I unpack my favorite sentence, which happens to be the opening to my favorite short story, and ask the burning question: can sentences be sexy? Many thanks to @arammrjoian.bsky.social for editing this! therumpus.net/2025/02/21/a...

This is why I love being a critic: I can justify my hours-long internet rabbit holes into Ethel Cain lore as "research"

Might fuck around and write a poetry collection themed around vampires