Writing Portfolio

Game journalism/criticism

VICE

• “How an Augmented Reality Game Escalated into Real-World Spy Warfare”

• “How a Young Adult Author Got Her Start Writing 'Pride and Prejudice' Fanfic About Neopets”

• “What It's Like When Gaming Helps You Get Sober”

• “How a Bizarre VR Festival Encapsulated NYU's Awful COVID-19 Response”

• “'Astrologaster' Asks if Bad Medicine Can Make a Good Doctor”

Kotaku

• “The Case of the Disappearing Nancy Drew Video Games”

• “The Rise and Fall of the Frag Dolls, a Group that Blazed Trails for Women in Gaming”

• “Ring Fit Adventure Is A Sweaty Ray Of Hope During Self-Isolation”

• “Poor Pay, Abuse, And Harassment: How The World's Biggest Wizard School Lost Its Magic”

Magenta

• “Video Game UI Designer Anisa Sanusi on Balancing Design and Activism”

• "Meet Google’s Resident Video Game Artist: An Interview with Kellee Santiago"

FANBYTE

• “Please Let Me Apologize to My Squad in Apex Legends”

• “7 Great Games for Chilling Out on Vacation”

PlayStation Lifestyle

• “A Beautiful Betrayal: The Crazy Work Behind Cosplaying Persona 5’s Milady”

• “To All the Bioware Boys I’ve Loved Before”

Girls on Games

• “A Virtual Page-Turner: Doki Doki Literature Club Review”

• “The Witcher 3’s Lodge of Sorceresses Has an Image Problem”

• "Character Chameleon: Interview with Cosplayer Allen Ryde"

Not Your Mama's Gamer

• "Where The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt Goes Wrong in Depicting Women (and Why it Matters)"

lifestyle/culture

Quirk Books Blog

• “5 Times the Work of Jorge Luis Borges Appears in Pop Culture”

• “If Beloved Authors Had a 2000s Goth Phase”

Spry Lit

• “Behind the Words: Travis Baker” (Interview)

theater reviews/reporting

Washingtonian

• "A Columbia Heights Theater Camp Helps DACA Recipients Tell Their Stories"

DC Metro Theater Arts

• “DC Performing Arts Organizations Rally to Support Puerto Rico After Hurricane”

• “Charlottesville Theater Groups Respond to Last Month’s Deadly Rally”

• "Review: 'Noura' at Shakespeare Theatre Company"

• "Review: 'Jefferson's Garden' at Ford's Theatre"

• "Interview: Kyla Garcia on Playing Sarah Ridge Polson in ‘Sovereignty’ at Arena Stage"

• "Profile: Can Storytelling Change Our Response to Mass Shootings?"

FICTION

• Arcturus, Winter 2018

  • “The Glaring”

• Carve, Spring 2015

  • “Tip Over Your Jug So I May Drink”

• Crack the Spine, Issue 65, Spring 2013

  • “To Lillia”

• Virginia Literary Review, Spring 2013

  • “Mando Man”