Publications

2021

• “On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood” – LitHub, June 2, 2021

2020

• Fidelis – Potomac Books, September 2020
• “This Memorial Day, Let’s Honor Essential Workers” – The Wrath-Bearing Tree, May 24, 2020
• “Intrigue” – Consequence Magazine, May 1, 2020

2019

• “#MeToo Made Me Reconsider My Wartime Affair” – The Nation, December 31, 2019
• “Removing Barriers to Motherhood” – Yale Medicine Magazine, September 24, 2019
• “Veterans’ Memoirs Go Beyond The Stereotypes” – Washington Post, July 5, 2019
• “They Shall Not Grow Old- And Neither Have We” – WWrite Blog, World War I Centennial Commission, June 17, 2019
• “Writing Women at War” – Foreign Policy, April 13, 2019
• “Sisterhood is Powerful” – Foreign Policy, February 3, 2019
• “Stand At Attention And Bite The Bullet” – Foreign Policy, January 27, 2019

2018

• “I’ve Never Looked More Dignified on a Hike” – The War Horse, December 5, 2018
• “Let Women Be Warriors” – New York Times, November 24, 2018
• Review: Kate Germano’s “Fight Like A Girl” – The War Horse, Sept 2018
• “How Skateboarding Helped Me Cope With War” – New York Times, May 26, 2018
• “Nepal Tried to Claim Her Too” – The War Horse, April 2018
• “Ridgeline” – Journal of War, Literature, and the Arts, March 2018

2017

• “The Thickest Glass Ceiling in the Marine Corps Breaks” – New York Times, Sept 25, 2017
• “Brothers” in It’s My Country Too, University of Nebraska Press, July 2017
• “Circumstances, Misfortunes, or Fortunes”- The War Horse, May 2017
• “What Civilians Don’t Understand About Military Sexual Harassment” – Rolling Stone, March 14, 2017
• “Little” in The Road Ahead, Pegasus Press

2016

• “Listening for Home” in Retire the Colors, Hudson-Whitman Press
• Consequence Magazine, Spring 2016:
  • “Float” – winner of the Consequence Fiction Prize
  • “Saturday”
• Penthouse,“Christmas Stories”- January 2016 (print issue)

2015:

• “Focusing on Leadership as Marine Corps Mandate to Integrate Women in Combat Units Nears” – New York Times At War, December 15, 2015
• Vassar Quarterly, Fall 2015 – “No One Left Behind”
• Task and Purpose, “Marriage Equality Enables Military Families to Share Their Stories” July 2015
• “Testing A Few Good Women for Combat” – New York Times At War, March 19, 2015
• 2015 Words After War Submission Contest Winner, “No One Left Behind”

2014:

• “‘Basetrack Live,’ the Story of a Marine’s Deployment, and His Return Home” – New York Times At War, November 13, 2014
• “A Sister, and Brother, in Arms” – New York Times At War, September 15, 2014
• The Chariton Review, “So What’s It Like?” – Fall 2014
• “Reflections on Falluja and the Impermanence of Victory” – New York Times At War, January 28, 2014

2013:

• “A Mortuary Affair in Iraq” – New York Times At War, April 25, 2013