Literary Nonfiction

“On Birkenau, by Gerhard Richter,” in the Ekphrastic Review, discusses Richter’s abstract Birkenau paintings, photography, and depictions of horror.

“Lived in the Fire,” on the long shadow of past violence as it falls across the plantation ruins of St. Croix, is forthcoming in Tampa Review in 2024.

“Like Dogs,” on the place of dogs in Rwandan society, the experience of uncomfortable embodiment in a foreign place, and whether anthropology is a forgivable sin, appeared in the Kenyon Review, March/April 2022. You can hear me read the piece aloud and also read about my most memorable job.

“A Ghost Map of Kigali,” on navigating Rwanda’s past and present, won the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s creative nonfiction award and was published in Anthropology & Humanism.

“Bones of Buried Kings,” on human remains and the act of looking, appeared in the literary magazine The Rumpus and was included in a Memoir Monday reading list.

“No Pictures Accompany This Essay,” in Epoiesen, considers the ethics and problems of looking at human remains, both personally and professionally, and plays with expectations about visual presentation and proof.

“What We Save, What We Destroy: A Reading List on Difficult Heritage,” an aggregation of longform articles and essays, with commentary, appeared in Longreads.