Selections from Ovaries and Bovaries: The Hell of A Dame (subscribe) (full archive)
39 weeks
The circle of life
Baby bumps
Like you mean it
Life porn
Rooting for your rebirth
The art of losing
Awakenings
Justice, not vengeance, for Anonymous
The beginning, the middle, and the poop on the floor
Quitting the third shift
TinyLetter, 2015-2018
Esmé Weijun Wang Writes Through the Story
Publishers Weekly, 2019
Don’t Submit. Pitch.
How Publishing My First Novel at 25 Almost Ruined Me for Life
How to Live Without Ecstasy Every Day
'The Americans' Is a Great Show, But Its Characters of Color Deserve Better
Catapult, 2017-2018
I Hated Breastfeeding—so I Quit
Let's Stop Gawking at Moms over 40
I'll Keep My 'Post-Baby Body'
Glamour, 2018
Why You Should Remove the Word “Lucky” from Your Vocabulary
Does Getting Weed Delivered to the Hair Salon Count as Self-Care?
InStyle, 2018
Review: Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland
Review: Donald Hall’s A Carnival of Losses
America, 2018
Why We Need To Talk About Pregnancy Weight Gain
I'm Pregnant with My Second—Shouldn't It Be Easier This Time?
Becoming a Mom Made My Sex Life Better—So There
My Formula-Fed Miracle
The Unwanted Empathy of Motherhood
I'm A Pro-Choice Liberal—So How Did I End Up At A Pregnancy Crisis Center?
I Was in Recovery from Anorexia—And Then I Got Pregnant
Refinery29, 2016-2018
The If of It: Lunatic Independence in Nine Easy Steps
SCRATCH: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, 2017
Against Confession: On Intersectional Feminism, Radical Catholicism, and Redefining Remorse
Longreads, 2017
How Lifetime Became One of The Best Places in Hollywood for Women
BuzzFeed, 2016
On Alicia Machado and What We Get Wrong About Beauty Queens
Fusion, 2016
In 'Equity,' Women's Greed Is Good
New Republic, 2016
I’m 32, But I Sometimes Feel Like A Teen Mom
ELLE, 2015
Poorer, for Richer: on Trav Pittman and Kelly Daniela Norris
Unicorns in the Wild: on female genius in directing
Mercy. Danger. Style. Absurdity: on Janicza Bravo
The Romance of Rewatching
The Antianorexic Heroine
A Multiplicity of Shadows: on allusive casting
What Rough Beast: on poetry in prestige television
The Antiheroines (featured column):
Elizabeth Jennings, The Americans
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Claire Underwood, House of Cards
Carmela Soprano, The Sopranos
Sally Draper, Mad Men
Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer
Brianna Barksdale, The Wire
Monica Lewinsky, The Price of Shame
Emma Sulkowicz, Carry That Weight
Rachel Goldberg, UnREAL
Clair Huxtable, The Cosby Show
Bright Ideas, 2014-2017
Stay Gold
The Rumpus Interview with Sandra Bernhard
The Last Poem I Loved: Kenneth Koch’s “To My Twenties”
Albums Of Our Lives: Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black”
The Read Along #5: Laura Goode
The Rumpus, 2011-2016
The Inventive Solipsism of Mondegreens
Primer, 2015
Emergency Pot Cookie (Or, the Nascence and Destruction of my First Real Writing Job)
Vela, 2014
If You Still Hate Birds
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2013
The Bee Years (with Jenna Lê)
The Millions, 2013
I Was A Child Pageant Star: Six Adult Women Look Back
NYMag.com, 2013
Girls Behind The Camera: An Interview with Meera Menon
The Believer: Logger, 2013
Collaboration, Not Competition
IndieWIRE Women & Hollywood, 2012
Brown Girls on Film (with Meera Menon)
Racialicious, 2012
Dead or Straight: The Conundrum of the Lesbian Coming-of-Age Story
The Los Angeles Review of Books, 2012
Money, Sex, and Tweens (with John Cusick and Rachel Rosenfelt)
The New Inquiry, 2011