Tag: Literary journal

I am pleased to announce publication of my flash fiction story, “The End of Instruction,” in The River Online. I would like to thank the editors for recognizing my writing and finding a place for it in their journal. This is my sixth publication since July 2023. I’ve published four nonfiction essays and two flash fiction stories. At my current rate I’ve published two essays or stories per year, and as it’s only April and I’ve already published twice in 2025, I expect to publish at least one more piece before the end of this year, giving me more momentum to publish at an even quicker pace moving forward. What I don’t always share in these blog posts about my recent successes, however, is the process of publication and how rife with failure it can be. Therefore, I thought it might be useful to reflect on this topic now. As you may know, publication is Read more…

I want to show my appreciation to nonfiction editors Sarah Persons and Vicky Oliver at LIT Magazine. They both worked hard to shepherd me through the publication of my most recent essay “The Hedonists’ Checklists“. Seeing potential in the essay, they prodded me to rewrite the ending, and if it wasn’t for their note, the essay may have languished in publication purgatory, otherwise known as Submittable, forever. I’ve now had two excellent experiences with publications run out of The New School in NYC. Christine Ro at The Inquisitive Eater (another New School publication) was equally amazing to work with when she helped me polish “Ready to Gorge” in 2024. Rather than simply publish the essay, Christine provided extensive notes, even recommending the title. It was her suggestion that I pull the phrase “ready to gorge” from the last paragraph of my essay in order to front load the intent of my message and capture more Read more…

Eric Akoto at Litro Magazine UK published my most recent essay, “How I Love You,” on January 11th, 2025 for the Editor’s Pick, Essay Saturday feature of the website. I’m grateful that Eric and his team provided a home for this essay and I was overjoyed when I read their description of my essay as “a meditation on love, mortality, and existential fear.” The essay is all of these things, and if you take the time to read it, I hope you understand that it is ultimately a love letter written in a strange and discomfiting form.

The Inquisitive Eater, an online publication run by the Creative Writing Program at The New School, published my most recent essay, “Ready to Gorge,” on June 20th, 2024. The essay focuses on beef intestines and other seemingly disgusting Korean meats. Special thanks to Nonfiction Editor Christine Ro for help with this essay. The Inquisitive Eater publishes online year-round. If you like my essay also check out Hannah Walhout’s amazing 2023 essay “Year of The Egg.”