Department of English

Because I Have Loved Somebody I am a Reservoir

This poetry collection reflects upon all facets of the love one experiences throughout a life, and how people, things, and places define themselves in relation to the soul. It is a love letter to the past and a thank-you to the present.

The Seven Ghosts of Old Fu City

An excerpt from a novel that follows Dai Yunting, a young woman who can see and speak with ghosts, and Lin Wanyu, a detective in the elusive Fourth Division that secretly handles crime cases with supernatural influences. Using Dai Yunting’s powers and Lin Wanyu’s investigative skills, the two women work together to solve cases related to supernatural occurrences, learning more about themselves, the world around them, and each other along the way.

Little Miss Dysfunctionality and Other Unpretty Thoughts

A collection of six short stories about love, family, and an attempt to move on from that which binds the narrators to their pasts.

Tell Me What This Is

A collection of five short stories about relationships that don't fit neatly into their boxes, whether it be friendship, family, or something in-between. The narrators all observe the world around them with a keen eye while struggling to understand themselves and their own desires.

Not Forgiveness, but Something Close

A collection of short stories told from the perspective of flawed narrators reckoning with the beauty of human connection and resiliency.

Identified patient

This poetry collection works toward subverting and making new meanings of familiar fairytales, subsets of pop culture, and daily life under consumer capitalism. These culturally-bound narratives emerge as erasing and splitting the speaker's self-identity, complicating girlhood, grief, and loss. Shadowed by projections of mental illness and insanity, these poems experience the normalization of gendered violence as it presents the need for transformation.

"Knight in the Rear-View Mirror" 

This honors project poetry collection welds together the world of Arthurian literature and of the modern-day to explore close friendship, family, and how stories are retold.

Sanctification (Screenplay)

Dovid Greenfield, a 19-year-old Orthodox Jewish man, comes to terms with his sexuality in the wake of a family wedding, and major developments in the American gay rights movement in the summer of 2015.

"Kainan na! (Time to Eat)"

"An Ocean Wide Enough"

"The Philosophers Widow"

"The Family Myth"

“Daughter Of”

My Senior Creative Writing Honors Project was a collection of poetry about my ever-shifting self-identity as a female Jewish American navigating anti-Semitism, familial and personal relationships, and the experience of leaving home. I have lovingly called it a “self portrait” of my life as a college student looking back on the most formative years of my life to date. 

"Sweet Oklahoma Water and Other Stories" 

A collection of stories about how our childhood shape us, and whether we can transcend those limits to discover new identities.