Published essays.
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The Goat in the Stairwell
The commotion outside our apartment highlighted the quiet within. Unspoken words poked at the cracks in our marriage, picking them apart, unravelling their edges. They were becoming harder to ignore.
I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh for the summer, spending time with my husband and our fourteen-year-old daughter. He was Bangladeshi American and working on a project here.…
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The Monkeys Don’t Care
Dusk at Kathmandu’s Pashupatinath Temple is monkeys. Settling into the November chill, succumbing to the dark vignette of the horizon, this time is theirs.
The monkeys don’t care about doorways marked “Hindus only.” Spirituality is a privilege. They choose their doorways, whichever they please, whichever they need, amongst the myriad…
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Meeting the Mistress
‘Who is she?’ I ask in a hesitant whisper, simultaneously dreading the answer and needing to know.
Our bedroom is dark, though it’s only 7PM. The January cold seeps through the windowpane of our New Jersey home and I shiver. I’m twenty-four hours into the hell he dropped me into last night when he ended our twenty-year marriage over...
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Escaping Firecrackers in the Desert
Editors’ Choice Articles
Solas Awards Gold Winner | Adventure Travel
The night is black. I can’t read your features, but I know you’re scowling. We’ve been held captive behind your blockade for the past six hours and we’ve found a way around it. You threw rocks at the car that came to rescue us and now I’m running to it, through the frigid Bolivian desert, clinging to my suitcase. We don’t speak a word to each other–I don’t speak Spanish, and you don’t speak…
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Turn Left at the Pigeons
Editors’ Choice Articles
Solas Awards Gold Winner | Women’s Travel
I hear them before I enter the Kora. Flapping and cooing, they feast on corn offerings from red plastic bowls. I know this because I’ve been here before, in what feels like a different life. I watch a woman crouch down in a position not available to me since I was five, hands busily tying a piece of brown straw around the base of a small piece of bok choy. Finished, she tosses it neatly into a pile…
Writing awards.
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Solas Awards, Best Travel Writing
2024 Gold, Adventure Travel
2024 Gold, Women’s Travel
2024 Silver, Bad Trip
2023 Bronze, Animal Encounters