1. We're not always okay and that's okay. 2. The surest path to regret is assuming you know anything about anyone. 3. That I'm allergic...

For the New York Times, I wrote about the bittersweet discovery that language, and the stories it carries, is not a straight path. Read...

1. The healing power of the right stone, gifted to me by dear friends, at just the right times in my life. 2. To really listen to my...

"I would not be alive if not for a series of small heroic acts." For McSweeney's, I wrote about the everyday heroic acts of my...

"I always knew that the main character in my novel would be dead..." Over at Tor.com, I wrote about how terms like fantasy & magical...

Immigrant stories are not timely, they're timeless. For Bustle, I wrote about why it's time to listen to and center the voices that have...

For Catapult, I wrote about about experiencing life apart from loved ones, and death and grief from afar. "In Spanish, to say I miss you...

You can't obsess your way out of a problem. If we each do what we can, when we can, honestly and wholeheartedly, we are collectively...

Some years teach, some years leave you with more questions than answers. (Zora Neale Hurston said this much better: “There are years that...

Funny story, really… The summer between eighth and ninth grade, I spent much of my time hanging out with my sister and her friends. She’s...