• “The Cuban Connection”
  Conversation with Elizabeth Graver about our historical novels inspired by true stories of our grandmothers in Tablet Magazine.
• “Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction” Essay about exploring my family’s past by writing the novel Hotel Cuba in LitHub.
• “Queering the ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Coming to America Story” An essay on the writing of Hotel Cuba in the Chicago Review of Books.
• “My Grandmother, the Undocumented Immigrant”
  Creative non-fiction piece combining memoir and travel writing in Tablet Magazine.
• “Guiltless Pleasures” (PDF)
  Short story about the food entrainment business and the search for meaning, in Crazyhorse.
• “I Know Where I’m Going” Short story set in Morocco in Image Journal.