My Work
Here’s what I’ve been making. Some of these stories are mine, and some belong to people who trusted me with theirs. Pull up a chair.
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Audio memoir · 35,000+ downloads
The Silence Between Hello
The three people who raised me, told through the things they left behind.
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Producer · 100+ episodes
BIO Podcast
Conversations with Pulitzer winners and bestselling biographers, including the documentary season Four Paths, One Impossible Dream.
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Co-founder and host · 40 episodes
Ink Slingers
Interviews about life writing and the people who do it.
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Television · New York Emmy nomination
Pushing It, COZI TV
I starred in and co-produced this reality series following my work with women through pregnancy and early motherhood.
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A new video podcast
The physical cost of holding it all together in midlife.
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Things I Meant to Tell You
Personal essays, criticism, and a monthly book club with authors and special guests. Free to read.
Memoir · MA thesis
Inheritance: A Memoir
The story of my Finnish immigrant grandmothers and the lives they made in northern Minnesota in the early 1900s.
CUNY Graduate Center
Essay
I Am Not Your Doctor. That Is the Whole Point.
Livelong, The Long View · 2026
Book review
Review of Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War
Australian Policy and History · 2026
Criticism
A Polite Arrangement
On Justin Ellis’s The Cruelty of Nice Folks
Things I Meant to Tell You · 2026
Essay