ESSAYS​

• “I’ve Always Felt More Like You: On Disability and the Second Person” from Brevity 

• "Pass/Fail" from Prairie Schooner
  Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2020

• "My First VHS: Rain Man" from Hobart

• "Audiobooks: The Past, Present, and Future of Another Way to Read" from Literary Hub

• "You Are Not What You Used to Be" from Slag Glass City

• "All the Answers" from Waxwing

• "Everything You've Never Tasted in Taco Bell" from The Museum of Americana

• "How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen" from Literary Hub

• "Do Audiobooks Count As Reading?" from Literary Hub
  Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2019

• "Try to Imagine What Silence Looks Like: A Tribute to Prince" from Barrelhouse

• "On Being a Writer Who Can't Read" from Literary Hub

• "My First Failure" from The Quivering Pen

• "My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook" from Literary Hub

• “Pseudonym: On Vision Loss and Hiding in Plain Sight from My High School Classmates" at Salon

• "The Painful Cost of the Writing Life: An Excerpt from Blind Man’s Bluff" featured at Literary Hub
  An Excerpt from Blind Man's Bluff

• "Incredible Shrinking World: An Excerpt from Blind Man’s Bluff" featured at Shondaland
  An Excerpt from Blind Man's Bluff
   

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OTHER NONFICTION

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• "Audiobooks Are Not Lesser Versions of Reading" from Literary Hub

• "The Day the Llamas Came to the Bookstore" from Literary Hub

• "Five Tips for Smart Self-promotion of Your Book on a Small Budget" from Writer's Digest

• "Seven Things I've Learned So Far" from Writer's Digest

• "Writer's Notes: Writing about Place" from The Mantle

• I write about how I find inspiration in the "Writers Recommend..." series at Poets & Writers

• I write about some recent books I loved, including memoirs by Jennifer Grey, Sarah Polley, and Amy Bloom in the "Bedtime Stories" column at The Washington Independent Review of Books