featured work
My Basketball Miracle
Storytellers’ True Stories About Family by Chicago Story Press (October 2024); Published in an anthology on family
Naked
A personal narrative about the time I ran naked through Yale’s library; Yale Daily News (November 2024)
sidebraid stories
Dear Basketball (#6)
It’s been over five years since I last wrote to you. So much has happened since then: a global pandemic, ChatGPT, Caitlin Clark?! My stepdad (and diligent rebounder) took off to Heaven. I started a new decade (#30) and have since gotten mistaken for a high schooler. The Chicago Sky won a WNBA championship! The Bulls are still rebuilding, like every other Chicago sports team. And of course, I met HER.
Allow Me to (Re)Introduce Myself
Most folks who’ve read my stories BS (Before Substack) probably know me as a basketball player, a queer millennial pioneer, and a girl who has worn a sidebraid every day for the past decade. But as I plunge into this new platform, welcoming new faces and rejoicing with familiar ones, it dawned on me that most people in my life—parents and besties included—don’t know how Writing and I became kindred souls.
The Girl with the Light Bulb Tattoo
The saddest days of my life to date were a three-day stretch in the spring of my junior year of high school. May 19. May 20. May 21. 2012—the year we misinterpreted the Mayan calendar, convinced the world was coming to an end. And for those three days that’s exactly what it felt like inside my head.