Essays & Archive
Essays & Archive
Selected nonfiction. Not everything published — only the pieces that belong together.
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Personal essays
Nonfiction written close to the ground.
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Cultural criticism
Silence, complicity, representation, and the stories a culture agrees not to examine.
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Investigation & archive
Selected work from the record: cases, documents, and the institutions around them.
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West Texas
Writing rooted in the country between Alpine and Marfa.
- Who Disappears From the Sentence How passive voice and institutional language decide where responsibility for violence is allowed to remain.
- My Hands Kept the Record Twenty-four years in professional kitchens, and what the body remembers that the hierarchy chose to forget.
- The City Looked Away Seventeen victims, mostly Black, brown, and queer — and the institutions that had already perfected the art of not noticing.