Essays, etc.
"Little Lost Girl," Chapter 16, December 10, 2021
"Meeting Aunt Z," Chapter 16, February 27, 2020
"Drawers," Green Briar Review 7:1 Winter 2020
"Rabbit Summer," New Ohio Review 25, Spring 2019
"#MeToo Has Been Almost 200 Years in the Making," Washington Post "Made by History," 9 January 2018
"Real Kid," 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2018
"The Growing Rock," Gettysburg Review, Winter 2017
"My Father's Tooth," Sycamore Review, 28:2 (2017)
"Scissors," Hippocampus, April 1, 2017
"Whirlaway," Gravel, December 2017
"A Common Thread: A Once-Rebellious Daughter Finds the Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree," Nashville Scene "Vodka Yonic," 6 April 2017
"I'm A Single Woman. I Decided to Change My Last Name, Anyway," Washington Post "Soloish," 11 July 2016
"Working Girls: My Summer as a Typist, and the Women Next Door," Nashville Scene "Vodka Yonic," 16 October 2016
“The Lost Stories” in At Grandmother’s Table: Women Write About Food, Life, and the Enduring Bond Between Grandmothers and Granddaughters. Ed. Ellen Perry Berkeley. Fairview Press, 2000.
"Meeting Aunt Z," Chapter 16, February 27, 2020
"Drawers," Green Briar Review 7:1 Winter 2020
"Rabbit Summer," New Ohio Review 25, Spring 2019
"#MeToo Has Been Almost 200 Years in the Making," Washington Post "Made by History," 9 January 2018
"Real Kid," 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2018
"The Growing Rock," Gettysburg Review, Winter 2017
"My Father's Tooth," Sycamore Review, 28:2 (2017)
"Scissors," Hippocampus, April 1, 2017
"Whirlaway," Gravel, December 2017
"A Common Thread: A Once-Rebellious Daughter Finds the Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree," Nashville Scene "Vodka Yonic," 6 April 2017
"I'm A Single Woman. I Decided to Change My Last Name, Anyway," Washington Post "Soloish," 11 July 2016
"Working Girls: My Summer as a Typist, and the Women Next Door," Nashville Scene "Vodka Yonic," 16 October 2016
“The Lost Stories” in At Grandmother’s Table: Women Write About Food, Life, and the Enduring Bond Between Grandmothers and Granddaughters. Ed. Ellen Perry Berkeley. Fairview Press, 2000.
Selected Awards and Honors
Best American Essays 2020 Notable for "Rabbit Summer," New Ohio Review 25, Spring 2019.
Best American Essays 2019 Notable for "Real Kid," 1966--A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2018.
Editor's Prize, New Ohio Review, for "Rabbit Summer," judged by Dinty W. Moore.
Fellow, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University, 2019
Best American Essays 2018 Notable for "My Father's Tooth," Sycamore Review 28:2
Nonfiction winner, Betty Gabehart Prize, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, 2018.
Runner-up, American Literary Review Nonfiction Contest, 2017.
Finalist, Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Southampton Review, 2017
Finalist, The Pinch journal personal essay contest, 2017
Mad Men and Working Women named one of 34 “epic feminist books” by Teen Vogue magazine.
2nd Place, Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Media & Civil Rights History Award, 2011
David Sloan Award, Outstanding Faculty Paper, American Journalism Historians Association, 2009.
Maurine Beasley Award for Outstanding Paper in Women’s History, AJHA, 2009.
Best American Essays 2019 Notable for "Real Kid," 1966--A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2018.
Editor's Prize, New Ohio Review, for "Rabbit Summer," judged by Dinty W. Moore.
Fellow, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University, 2019
Best American Essays 2018 Notable for "My Father's Tooth," Sycamore Review 28:2
Nonfiction winner, Betty Gabehart Prize, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, 2018.
Runner-up, American Literary Review Nonfiction Contest, 2017.
Finalist, Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Southampton Review, 2017
Finalist, The Pinch journal personal essay contest, 2017
Mad Men and Working Women named one of 34 “epic feminist books” by Teen Vogue magazine.
2nd Place, Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Media & Civil Rights History Award, 2011
David Sloan Award, Outstanding Faculty Paper, American Journalism Historians Association, 2009.
Maurine Beasley Award for Outstanding Paper in Women’s History, AJHA, 2009.
Media
"Feminism and Mad Men," UMES 30, interviewed by Joshua Wright, WMES Radio, March 24, 2019 (interviewed about Mad Men and Working Women book).
Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote (documentary). Produced by Yoshie Lewis. March 2017. Dist. American Public Television (interviewed about suffrage in Tennessee.)
“Eleanor in Love and Politics,” Interchange, hosted by Douglas Storm, WFHB Radio, March 14, 2017 (interviewed about ER and 1930s Ladies' Home Journal campaign).
Women's Suffrage and the Media (website/database; part of editorial team).