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.