Published Writing
I do original reporting for Northwestern Magazine, including feature articles, short profiles and interviews. I offer design feedback and develop the copy for Instagram stories and short videos to accompany articles as well. In my free time, I write poetry, creative nonfiction and flash fiction. Below are links to my writing. See my work history here.
Article Highlights
When his dreams of directing theater fizzled, Art Johnston instead became the leader of Sidetrack, a legendary gay bar in Chicago. Together with his co-owner and partner of 50 years, Pep Peña, the two have been relentless advocates for LGBTQIA+ rights, helping to pass major legislation in Illinois.
Published Spring 2024
Owner/founder of the Chicago-based bakery Justice of the Pies and star of Netflix’s Bake Squad, Maya-Camille Broussard chats with me about the inspiration behind her baking, creating accessible spaces for people with disabilities, and her favorite pie recipes.
Published Spring 2024
2024 articles
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Intervallic: A Video Game That Makes Music Practice Fun
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Design Firm Chromatic Brings Awareness to Lighting as a Social Justice Issue
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Yobee: Ruchi Gupta's Science-Backed Solution for Cradle Cap
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Kellogg Grad Organizes Aid for Ukraine
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2023 articles
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Sno-Gro Boot: Northwestern Grads Invent the First Expandable Boot
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Mail Call: The Black Women Battalion of World War II
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Chatting with Succession Writer and Playwright Will Arbery
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Dance Like the World Is Watching
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A Pen for Parkinson’s Patients
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Cue the Curves Makes Shopping More Inclusive
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2022 articles
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We’re in the Game: Northwestern Alums in the Video Game Industry
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Civil Rights Activist and Africana Scholar James Turner Passes
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LGBTQIA+ Health Care Gets a Checkup
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New Opera Memorializes Fannie Lou Hamer
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Multiyear Experiment in the Rockies Tests Climate Change’s Effects on Wildflowers
Chopped Champion Melanie Moss’s Sweet Success
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Guggenheim Fellow Angelo Madsen Minax Explores Life Through Film
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Comedian Lukas Arnold Finds TikTok Fame
Student Associates Take on Expanded Role at the Block Museum of Art
Interview: Mara Lieberman of Bated Breath Theatre Company
Eunice Byun, CEO of Material Kitchenware, Makes Business Personal
2021 articles
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Colores Mexicanos Supports Indigenous Artisans in Mexico
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Guggenheim Fellow Kate Zambreno “Troubles Genre” with Her Writing
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Interview: Journalist Nancy Johnson on Her Debut Novel The Kindest Lie
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Songwriter Kellen “Pom Pom” Pomeranz Wins Grammy for Her Work With John Legend
Hotel Alma Mater: Entrepreneur Ben Weprin Founds Graduate Hotels
Poetry Highlights
Poem published in North American Review, Summer/Fall 2020 print issue. This poem also appears in Chapter 8 of the open access textbook Elements of Creative Writing.
Poem anthologized in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, Trinity University Press, 2020