Writing
I use word and image to tell a story. Objects especially have stories to tell and I embellish my work with found objects, doodads, text, photographs, collage, and video.
Recent Work
Interviews/Reviews
Genre-Fluid: Interviewed by Claire Vaye Watkins, BOMB
An Interview with Megan Galbraith, The Believer
Down Memory Lane, LAReview of Books
Perils & Paradoxes of Adoption, BLOOM
Soul-Searching and Self-Soothing, BLOOM
Dioramas of a Childhood, ZYZZYVA
Book Review, Hippocampus
Book Review, The Washington Independent Review of Books
Playing House: A Conversation with Megan Culhane Galbraith, The Rumpus
“The Strange Tradition of “Practice Babies” at 20th Century Women’s Colleges.” Hyperallergic
“An End. A Beginning. Choosing a Pseudonym for my Birth Mother.” Severance Magazine
Excerpt from “The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book,” Severance Magazine
“The Primal Wound: Viewing and Reviewing Personal History,” Tupelo Quarterly, curated by Emma Bolden
“Mini Utopias,” an interview with The Saltonstall Foundation
Podcasts
AdopteesOn, Ep. 168
Sex, Lies & The Truth
Adoption: The Making of Me
Pulled by the Root
Cut-Off Genes
Hybrid/Multimedia
“Little Red Gets her Period and Saves Planned Parenthood,” Redivider
Finalist, Redivider’s Blurred Genre contest (judge Lincoln Michel)
“Don’t Call Me Your Princess,” Four Way Review
“A Lover’s Discourse,” a multimedia essay, About Place Journal
“The Dollhouse: A Zine,” www.suffragettezine.com
“The Dollhouse,” Reservoir
Selected Essays
Maybe the ‘R’ in the R Train Stands for Revelation, Blood Orange Review
How The Lonely Doll Made Me Feel Seen, The ManifestStation
“The Girl in the Glass Coffin,” Hobart
“Hold Me Like a Baby,” Tupelo Quarterly
Notable Best American Essays, 2021
“Kiss on My Lips,” March Badness Tournament of Essays
“Confession,” Monkeybicycle
“Water,” My Body My Words, edited by Amye Archer & Loren Kleinmen
“11 New Feminist Books That Could Totally Change Your Year,” Bustle
“Two New Anthologies Look Beyond Body Positivity and Sexism,” BUST
“Sin Will Find You Out,” Catapult (edited by Nicole Chung)
Notable Best American Essays, 2017 and reprinted in Longreads & LitHub
“Talking Points,” The Coachella Review
“Kaizen: A Management Seminar,” Beyond
“Learning to Mother Myself,” The Manifest Station
“Consider the Lilies,” The Lost Daughters
“Puppet Tragedy,” Hotel Amerika, Vol. 11, Number 1
“Mother’s Day,” 51% The Women’s Perspective, WAMC-NPR (90.3 FM)
Critical Writing
“Child’s Play. How Creative Play Helped Unlock my Nonfiction,” Cleaver Magazine
“Animals as Aperture: How Three Essayists Use Animals to Convey Meaning and Emotion,” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
“That’s Not How I Remember it: Nonfiction and the Art of Dealing with Doubters,” The Review Review
Book Reviews
“Listening to Women is a Form of Political Action” Review of The Bindercast, Entropy Magazine
“Books We Can’t Quit: Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy,” PANK
“The Common Ground of the Universe,” review of ‘A Solemn Pleasure’ by Melissa Pritchard, Atticus Review
“Protagonist, Antagonist, Sympathizer, Spy,” review of “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Consequence Magazine
Guest Editor, The Notebook: A Progressive Journal for Women & Girls with Rural & Small Town Roots, The Home issue, Volume #2
Fiction
“Sooner or Later Everybody Leaves,” Rosebud, Vol. 1, Issue 2