I'm a writer and web designer. Here is some of my work.

Short Stories

Necessary Evils

I won an award for this nonfiction story about the day we took my grandmother to a rest home.

29 Second Avenue

An ethnography for my critical writing class about an ignominious New York City landmark. Not for those who are easily offended.

Science and Health

A nonfiction story about my mother, religion, and bad colds.

One Hundred Three

You’ll always think of an ex when you’re at his subway stop.

Seventh floor. Patient rooms 7125 to 7293.

A harrowing trip to the emergency room.

Essays

Feminism, Science, Cyborgs: The Female Perspective in the 21st Century

An essay on Cyborg Feminism that I couldn’t have written without the resources of the New York Public Library.

Speaking in Silence: Dictee

An analysis of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s postmodern novel Dictee.

Farewell to Verisimilitude

An unflinching essay on Jeanne Houston’s novel Farewell to Manzanar.

An Inconvenient Epistemology: Climate Change Denial

For my critical writing class, an attempt to breathe life into a prosaic assignment.

High-Five Dystopia

For my critical writing class, we had to analyze two Times columns, one by David Brooks and Bob Herbert.

Zola and the Dreyfus Affair: Hero or Figurehead?

An essay from my Western Civilization class about Émile Zola and the Dreyfusards.