ESSAYS
This is the living archive of my practice.
These are not blog posts. They are lived moments—rendered slowly, honestly, and with care.
What you’ll find here are personal essays drawn from the marrow of real experience: vulnerable, contemplative, and often unresolved. Some are quiet. Some are sharp. All are written as a way of paying attention.
I invite you to read them unhurriedly. Let them linger. Let them breathe. And if something stays with you, please email me—I read every note.
Some recent essays that found a home in literary mags:
The Field Between Us, Chicago Story Press, April 2025 (Pushcart Prize nominee)
In the Dark: Unbound, Unafraid, Yellow Arrow Journal, Unfurl edition, Spring 2025
FieldNotes_WentworthFalls_December2024, Second Place Winner, London Writers’ Salon, June 2025
Two Worlds Under One Roof,Still Here Magazine, November 2025
Easier to Let You Win, The Manifest Station, December 2025
An Unwanted Inheritance, A Fractured Love, Pangyrus Lit Mag, February 2026
An Unwanted Inheritance: A Fractured Love
I've crafted a life defined by speech rather than silence. Yet for all my determination to break the cycle, I still find myself slipping into inherited patterns.
Easier to Let You Win
What's the difference between helping and controlling? Between care and erasure? An essay about marriage, inheritance, and painful recognition.
Two Worlds Under One Roof
What happens when two people who love each other live fundamentally different lives? A dual-voice essay about marriage, contradiction, and staying.
FieldNotes_WentworthFalls_December2024
In response to the prompt Found Document where the ask was to “write a story, poem, or essay in the form of a found document. Use a nontraditional form like a police report, a weather forecast, a transcript of a voicemail, or a list of search history results. How does the form shape what is revealed?”
The Field Between Us
We mistake long-term partnership for knowing someone deeply.
But knowing is an ongoing act.