There are new reading recs by yours truly up today on The Shepherd! This list is for all you parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and caregivers who need to have hard conversations with little ones about pets dying.
I am thrilled to share I have a new essay published in Off Assignment as part of their Letter to a Stranger series. Read "To the Iditarod Man" here, and also check out my "Behind the Essay" interview for the
Photo by Jonathan Wiggs for The Boston Globe. I am over the moon to have Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter featured in The Boston Globe: "In new book, local author explores loving and losing our beloved pets." Thank you
I am so honored to announce that I have been chosen to be the Roslindale Book Ambassador for September & October 2022!!! You can check out my list of recommended reading on Rozzie Bound Co-op's Bookshop.org page, and on Thursday
Today marks ONE MONTH that Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter has been out in the world! I can't believe it has been a month. It both flew by and also felt like the longest month of my life. More below
The summer 2022 issue of Wellesley magazine is up online now, and your girl is all over it! I got to write a feature story profiling conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson ’93! I had my first ever photo credit with a shot
FUN FACT 1: In middle school, I had a book-themed party for my 13th birthday where we hung out at the Burlington, Massachusetts Barnes & Noble. FUN FACT 2: Today through 4/22 on the Barnes & Noble website you can
I'm delighted to have a micro-essay (prose poem???) in the summer 2021 issue of Thimble Literary Magazine. Thank you to the editors for giving my and Richie's dead dogs a home in Vol. 4, No. 1. You can read
For the full piece, see it in Wellesley Magazine.Published in the winter 2020 issue. — My girl Wanda the betta fish (RIP) finally gets the obituary she deserves in the winter 2020 issue of Wellesley Magazine. Writing this piece for the Endnotes
It's official!!! On January 30, I sold my book Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter, to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! My editor is the wonderful Naomi Gibbs, known for editing many incredible books, including some of my favorites from the past