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Short Fiction

-”2092,” Monkeybicycle, 2025
-”Trauma Bonds,” Bull Magazine, 2024
-”A Deal with the Devil,” The Baffler, 2022
-"Three Fictions," Okay Donkey, 2021
- "Empyrean," Territory Lit, 2018
-"After the Attack," BOMB Magazine, 2017
-”Things Unspoken” Massachusetts Review, 2015
-"Of What Remains," TriQuarterly, ​2015​
-"Conversion," ​Guernica, ​February 2014
- "Notes on a War-Torn Childhood," ​Electric Literature, ​2014

Poetry

-”Lockdown at the School for the Deaf,” Virginia Quarterly Review, 2025

Essays/Criticism

-”How the Portrayal of Deaf People In Film Has Evolved Over Time,” PBS, November 2025
-”The US Right is Coming For Disabled People. Here’s Why That Threatens Everyone,” The Guardian, March 2025
-”Can Art Save the World?” Writing Co-lab, March 2025
-”Signed Away,” Baffler Magazine, November 2024
-”Martha’s Vineyard Was Once A Haven for the Deaf. I Took a Trip to See if It Still Is,” Afar Magazine, August 2024
-”How to Lose Your Hearing,” Oprah Daily, January 2023
-”Silence Brought me a Community and an Escape,” New York Times Magazine, July 2022
-”The Vehicle for my Feelings: How Sign Language Helped a Deaf Author Find her Voice,” The Guardian, May 2022
-”The Oscar Winner is a Flawed Triumph for the Deaf Community,” Slate, March 2022
-”There’s More to the ASL Performances in CODA than Nonsigners Realize,” Slate, February 2022
-”Don’t Fear a Deafer Future,” New York Times, October 2021
-"Marlee Matlin Knows How to Make Change," Bustle, August 2021
-"I was fortunate to get my vaccine, but the hurdles are too great for many Deaf people," CNN, April 2021
-“5 Captions on Captions,” Activating Captions exhibition, Argos Arts, April 2021
-'Sound of Metal' is a Heartwarming--and Frustrating--Take on Deafness," Mic, January 2021
-"Why 'Dinner Table Syndrome' is Getting Worse for Deaf People," BBC, October 2020
-"Masks are a Barrier Against the Coronavirus, But Also for Deaf People," Washington Post, July 2020
-"Pandemic Journal," New York Review of Books, April 2020
-"Residency Supports Deaf Writers," Poets & Writers, April 2020
-"That Feeling When Humiliation From Years Ago Hits You All Over Again," New York Magazine, February 2020
​-"The Frustrating Fight for Closed Captions On In-Flight Entertainment," Conde Nast Traveler, January 2020
-"Deafness Isn't a Threat to Health. Ableism Is," Healthline, July 2019
-"A Clearer Message on Cochlear Implants," The New York Times, November 2018
-"ASL and Deaf Privilege," CUNY Center for the Humanities, October 2018
-"Texas' Twisted Excuse for Removing Helen Keller," CNN, September 2018
-"All Words Fly," Guernica Magazine, August 2018
-"Deaf Prisoners are Trapped in Frightening Isolation," CNN, June 2018
-"The Superpowers of Akil Kumarasamy," Work in Progress, May 2018
-"When it Comes to Depicting Disability, Hollywood Keeps 'Cripping Up'," CNN, March 2018
-"The G.O.P.'s HR620 Will Gut the Americans With Disabilities Act," NBC, February 2018
-"A Brief History of Time," Harper's, November 2017
-"America's Enduring Pastime: Baseball, Misogyny, and Reading The Natural," LitHub, October 2017
-"The Hearing World Must Stop Forcing Deaf Culture to Assimilate," NBC, October 2017
-"A History of Silence: Review of Belladonna," Music & Literature, September 2017
-"Interview with AGT's Mandy Harvey," Elle, August 2017
-"The Right to Remain Silent: Ableism, the English to Prison Pipeline, and the Plight of d/Deaf Inmates," The New Inquiry, March 2017
-Interview with Lidija Dimkovska, The White Review, March 2017
-"Front Row Virgins: I'm 'Afashionable So This is Going to Be Just Great," Elle, February 2017

Sportswriting

- “On Unconditional Love, or Why I am a Mets fan,” July 2019
- Daniel Murphy's Butt Muscle, or the Politics of Disability," May 2019
- "There's No 'I' in March Madness," March 2019
- "Underdog Cities," January 2019
- "In Defense of the Bandwagon Fan," espnW, February 2018
- "Lost Verses to 'Meet the Mets'," August 2018
- "Top 5 Baseball Superstitions, Conclusively Rated," August 2018
- "A Totally, One Hundred Percent, Really Really Fictional Mets Fan Fantasy," July 2018
- "Weird Baseball," July 2018
- "Barbarity and Baseball" June 2018
- "The Inspirational Speech the Mets Desperately Need...from Netflix" June 2018
- "Things Nolan Gorman Doesn't Remember" June 2018
- "Ode to a Diehard" June 2018
- "William Hoy and What We've Lost" May 2018
- "Just Another Lady Thinkpiece," December 2016
- "I Don't Know's on Third," November 2016
- "Curtis Granderson and the Clemente Mets," November 2016
- "Mets Movie Moments," October 2016
- "Murphy's Law (and Other Great Baseball Superstitions)," October 2016
- "Harper Lee was a Mets Fan," February 2016
- "Generation Mets: A Family of Underdogs," October 2015

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