Selected Writing

Cover Stories —
Beautiful Lives, Beautiful Deaths
Los Angeles Times, Image magazine – 2023

The Tarot Card Tells Its StoryLos Angeles Times, Image magazine – 2024


Essays —
Beautiful Lives and Beautiful Deaths
The Surfer’s Journal – 2025

To the Portrait of Anonymous Kisses
Off Assignment magazine – 2024

The MarbleThe Missouri Review – 2022

Baja California, 1995‍ ‍G*Mob magazine – 2022

I Find Myself Riding the Subway‍ ‍G*Mob magazine – 2022


Interviews and Reportage —

The Board Shorts That Changed Surf Culture for Girls
Los Angeles Times, Image magazine – 2026

Artist Kyna Payawal Will Keep You Lingering
Los Angeles Times, Image magazine – 2026

D.J. Waldie, A Bard and a Barnacle
Los Angeles Times, Image magazine – 2025


Editor —
AM SURF – No 1– 2024

Literary Criticism —
Bodily Dissociation as a Female Coping Mechanism in The Shapeless Unease, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, and Girlhood‍ ‍‍ ‍
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies – 2022


Print Anthologies —
First Day, Last Day(No Style Press – 2016)
Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them(Bloomsbury – 2014)

Substack —
Still Stoked

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