Writing
Samples of stories, poems, and prose included in my senior creative writing capstone Continental Drift: a “memoir-ish” collection exploring my travels between the seven continents before the age of 22. A “topography of the self” as my classmate described it, the work is segmented by continent, experimenting with form to interrogate how crossing borders affects personal identity—confronting themes of displacement, agency, stagnancy, belonging, and escape.
Letters to Who I’ve Been
A series of letters to the names I’ve held throughout my life, pre- and post-divorce/adoption, arranged reverse-chronologically.
Freeze
“It is a balmy zero degrees Celsius when I step onto the gangway. There are ice caps in the water. I am wearing a blue bikini.”
“The Hands That Held You”
(Written from the orphanage, Il Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence)