ESSAYS

Essays are listed in chronological order below. Those connected to Scarlett are listed first.

“Healing Histories,” Bittersweet: Linked Through Slavery (March 9, 2023)

“The Plantation Cake,” in Slavery’s Descendants (Rutgers University Press, 2019)

“Inventory,” The Sun (September 2017)

“Things Sweet to Taste,” The American Scholar (Summer 2017)

“Reading Buchanan,” in What the Presidents Read: Childhood Stories and Family Favorites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025) 

“A Writer’s Companion: Keats in Our Time,” Tupelo Quarterly (February 2023)

“Here with You,” Southern Humanities Review (Winter 2019)

“Miniature,” Broad Street (Spring 2018)