Writing

Drystorm
An alien’s report about what happened to the people of planet Earth after the backwards rain.

Published in filling Station

Fantasy Road Trip for Depressed Motherfuckers
A young couple goes on a surreal road trip with no definitive end in an expression of angst and anger at the world.

Published in Reed Magazine

Winner of the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction

Nominee for the 2022 Pushcart Prize

Mr. Muskrat’s One-Way Ticket to the Great Unknown
A futuristic fairy tale about Midville, a small midwestern town, that transforms from small and rural to a wealthy tourist hotspot. A wormhole appears on the outskirts of Midville, which the townspeople don’t think much of until a wealthy capitalist named Eli Muskrat arrives with promises to make the town rich off of the wormhole.

Winner of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures

Underlying Overworld
A young couple is created digitally so that their maker can analyze their relationship in varying environments. “Underlying Overworld” is an exploration of our unending quest to define romantic love and of human compatibility filtered through algorithms.

Atonement
A meditation on a feeling of being lost that so many of us feel in young adulthood upon discovering that a) the well-trodden paths that we are expected to take barely feel human, and b) the people we’re expected to be don’t line up with the way we think of ourselves.

Winner of UCSC Senior Essay Award