The Work

Creative Nonfiction

The Game” Women on Writing CNF Contest 2nd Place (July 2025)

The Kicker” Honorable Mention, READ Magazine’s Summer 2025 CNF Contest; reprinted in The Sunlight Press (October 2024)

Kill Your Dragons” Midstory Magazine (May 2024)

Some Facts about Cows” The Razor (March 2024)

Sowing Lessons” Awfully Hilarious – Period Stories (March 2024)

Keep Going” SugarSugarSalt Magazine (December 2023)

Language Arts” Saranac Review #18 (May 2023)

Marriage in the Mountains” Gordon Square Review (November 2022)

Omissions” The Brooklyn Review (January 2022)

Essays

“The Trouble with Heroes” Book Review, Adirondack Life (Nov/Dec 2025, print only)

“Turn the Page: Grief & Growth in Sixth Grade” Oh Reader #8 (June 2022, print only)

My Grief & Growth Notebook: A Visual Roadmap for Change What’s Your Grief  (February 2022)

Three Books to Bring Conversations about Death, Grief, & Loss into the ClassroomWhat’s Your Grief (July 2021)

What a Children’s Book Taught Me (and My Students) About GriefGreater Good Magazine (July 2021)

Artwork

Boy by Lucy Zhang” (collage) Flash Frog (January 2026)

In Search of Open Doors” (part of my “Flyers for When You’re Lost” series) Libre Lit (January 2026)

The Barn at the End of the Road” (photo) *82 Review (Dec 2025)

Rock Nest” (collage) Silly Goose Magazine (November 2025)

Shades of Summer” (photo) The Sunlight Press (June 2025)

Bereavement Birds” (comic) What’s Your Grief (August 2024)

Have Book, Will Travel” (collage) 805 Art + Lit (August 2024)

“Swimming Upstream” (collage) Libre Lit (June 2024)

Growth Emerges in a Rough Place” (collage) Aureation Zine Issue 5 (June 2024)

Getting Schooled”(graphic narrative) MUTHA Magazine (November 2023)

Published by Lauren