Writing
I write about faith, family, and what happens when you leave behind the beliefs that built you.
My newsletter, Things I Meant to Tell You, lands in inboxes when inspiration strikes — essays about religious trauma, complicated family dynamics, and the slow work of figuring out who you are when no one's telling you who to be.
Books in Progress
Collective Memoir A book about the women who left Laestadianism, a fundamentalist sect most Americans have never heard of. Built from oral histories I've collected over several years. Currently seeking representation.
Tulsa A memoir-reportage about the year I spent in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a participant in a program that paid remote workers to move there, and about a city that has spent a century choosing what to remember and what to remake. In progress.
Selected Essays
What It's Really Like to Leave Laestadianism: The Work After Leaving
The Silence Between Us (on siblinghood)
The Cruelty Is the Point
What DNA Can't Tell You: The Real Story of Inheritance
The Invisible Curriculum: What I Wasn't Taught and How I Learned It Anyway