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)