Opinion & Commentary
Madwoman Out of the Attic| Psychology Today | ongoing column
“A Drinkable Beauty” | Orion | fall 2021
“I’m Bipolar. Like Britney Spears, I Deserve To Control My Life” | Huffington Post | 2021
“It's National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Yet, I don't see myself anywhere” | The Hill | 2021
“Remembering Dorothea Buck—Who Forced Psychiatry To Confront Its Deadly History” | Ms. | 2021
“I'm bipolar. I know what it is to be Britney Spears” | The Hill | 2021
“My Psychosis Meds Are Being Disrupted by Coronavirus” | Independent | 2020
“Even When I’m Psychotic, I’m Still Me” | New York Times | 2020
“Finding My Grandmother, One Psychic At A Time” | Lenny Letter | 2018
“What One Adoptive Mother Would Say to her Son’s Birth Mother” | Parade | 2014
“Who Is This Child” | New York Times | 2007
Essays
“In Paradise” | Georgia Review | 2020
“The Small Psychoses” | On the Seawall | 2019
“Filaments” | Kenyon Review | 2019
“Wendy” | Slag Glass City | 2017
“Bone Structure” | The Manifest-Station | 2016
“The Arrow of Time” | Image | 2016
“Journey’s End” | Brevity | 2014
“Hosts” | Image | 2013
“Little Things” | Brevity | 2010
“Language Garden” | Orion | 2005
“Metaphor Crafters” | Orion | 2005
Guest Posts
“Then and Now: Will Psychiatry Ever Change?” | Mad in America | 2020
“Leave it To Ritalin” | Huffington Post | 2014
“Seven Essential Books for Adoptive Parents” | Huffington Post | 2014
“After Page One: Creativity” | Literary Mama | 2014
“Make Me A Mother” | My Book, The Movie | 2014
“The Poetics of Urgency” | Craft Essay | Brevity | 2012
“Womanly Regard: Gender and the Act of Making Nonfiction” | vidaweb | 2011
Poems
“Tunnel No End,” “Beauty Food for Urban Sweetie,” “Wormwood Latte: ECT” | Connotations Press: An Online Artifact | 2019
“I Became Friends,” “When I Was Fifteen,” “I Can Recall” | Plume | 2016