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The messy middle.

Sharp, emotionally honest essays about womanhood, mental health, reinvention, ambition, and creative identity—written from the thick of it.

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Modern life,
without the soft-focus filter.

Three pieces that introduce the larger questions in my work—identity, money, grief, ambition, and the horrifying realization that you are apparently the adult now.

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One deeply observed essay.
No pretending I have the answers.

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