Selected Work
Like Being Held
Bi All Means, May 2023
I have an essay in the third and final issue of Bi All Means, a zine celebrating bisexuality compiled and edited by Julia Koschler of the Munich Zine Library. The focus of this issue is on Joy and Community. All proceeds donated to Bi+ Pride Hamburg and to mutual aid.
In My Room
Hit the Decks, May 2021
I wrote about being stuck at home during the pandemic and the ways in which it was like being a 12-year-old metal nerd back in the 80s. Published in Hit the Decks, a magazine about music and cassette culture.
The Summer of Dead Birds
Utne, July 2019
Let’s get this out of the way: I am something of an Ali Liebegott superfan. It started 13 years ago with The IHOP Papers, her novel about a lovesick lesbian waitress named Francesca that I read almost straight through one hot summer afternoon while I sat at my desk. It’s a wonderful book: heartbroken and messy, packed with arresting images, so funny it hurts. Her next novel, Cha-Ching!, addressed the subject of addiction, and though the main character in that one was more mature, she was still just as tough and funny as I needed her to be. “She’d … always wanted to make a mood ring for alcoholics—the rainbow of colors could translate into words like lonely, and sorry, and marry me.”
Read the rest of my review here
Memoir as Addiction
The Millions, June 2018
I reviewed Michelle Tea's fine collection of essays, Against Memoir, for The Millions.
Pizzazz, or The Language of Memory
Utne Reader, April 2014
"You might not think about it much, but language and linguistics are all around you. And that’s precisely what author Katie Haegele illustrates in Slip of the Tongue (Microcosm Publishing, 2014). Whether it’s used to create art or simply to communicate, language is an integral part of the world we live in. Through interviews, research, and musings on today’s digital world Haegele breathes life into the contemporary state of the English language. The following excerpt, from “Either You Have It, or You Don’t,” links language and long-term memory with just one word: pizzazz."