Writing

Writing

SCREENPLAYS + TV SCRIPTS


Land Forth

A workplace comedy set in post-apocalypse New York, where employees commute via time-travel and the Native CEO is steamrolled by board members looking for a life raft.


Dead Set

A figurative haunting becomes literal when Andrew’s late ex-husband Lucas reappears in the comedy club they ran, making it impossible to move on personally or professionally.


Recover

Five strangers connect in a trauma recovery support group.


Villette

A mini-series adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s most misunderstood novel.


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A comedy pilot about an aspiring YouTube celebrity


Spec scripts

  • What We Do In the Shadows: “Bicoastal” 
  • Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23: “The Red Menace”
  • 30 Rock: “Gotta Hand It To ‘Em”

Essays


Puncture

Grace and Gravity – 2022

An essay about tragedy and transformation in a Build-a-Bear Workshop. Read here.


Tragedies of Omission: Philip Roth’s Adapted American Pastoral

 Electric Literature – 2016

Film review. Read here.


Reading Like a Tomboy: Looking For Myself in Literature

 The Toast – 2015

Personal essay on representation in vintage and contemporary YA literature. Read here.


Pennington’s Party Tips for the Reserved

The Toast – 2013

How to escape more or less gracefully from an extrovert’s social habitat. Read here.


Writing lessons

Ploughshares Literary Magazine Online – 2013

Learning to be vulnerable and true to oneself as a writer by reading the Brontës. Read here.


A Brontë Fragment

The American Scholar Online – 2013

Essay prompted by a manuscript fragment of Charlotte Brontë’s poetry at auction. Read here.


Book

A Girl Walks Into a Book: What The Brontës Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work

Seal Press, of Da Capo Press/Perseus Books, Hachette Book Group – 2017

A braided narrative of biography, literary criticism, and memoir about the Brontë sisters, their novels, and my own coming of age.