Literary Nonfiction

“White Coat, Black Habit,” Ruminate, Fall 2021.

“As Though He Has Fallen From a Great Height” Months to Years, 2021.

“Of Birds and Men and Night” wildness, Feb 9, 2021. ( Listed as. notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021.)

“Nurse Clappy Gets His” The Literary Review, Winter 2014.  (Listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2015.)

“White Cloth Ribbons”  Harvard Review, Fall 2015.  (Listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2016.)

"This Will Sting and Burn" The Sun, January 2016. (Reprinted in abridged version in Readers Digest, 2017)

"Empathy Machine: The Singular Science of Nancy Andrews" in What It Means To Be Human, Artists in Context, Cambridge MA,  2016.

The Tyranny of Diagnosis, in Loupette and the Moon, Nancy Andrews, 2012.