The Attending Reader
essay · collected winter 2026 · 4 min read
What a Virginia Woolf seminar taught me about clinical listening — and why close reading might be the first course in a psychiatric education.
Written Works
These are the pieces I couldn’t talk myself out of writing — essays about minds and medicine, small experiments in paying attention, the occasional love letter to a library. Some are polished; some are still warm from the oven. Either way, thank you for reading. That part is the whole point.
Essays
Neither One Is the Backup
essay · collected fall 2025 · 4 min read
On the organic chemistry flashcards living inside my copy of Middlemarch, and why I refuse to choose between the sentence and the synapse.
Flash nonfiction
The Word for It
flash nonfiction · collected october 2025 · 2 min read
An October office hour, a lost word, and the eight seconds it took to come home.
A Field Guide to the Sleepers of Davis Library
flash nonfiction · collected december 2025 · 2 min read
A taxonomy of finals-week sleep, compiled on the fourth floor with all due tenderness.
Poems
Hippocampus
poem · collected spring 2025 · 18 lines
On learning the brain keeps livestock: two seahorses, one to a temporal lobe, holding everything.
Superstition, with Water Fountain
poem · collected august 2025 · 16 lines
First-day pilgrims at the Old Well, drinking luck as if it worked. It might.
To the Previous Owner of My Used Mrs. Dalloway
poem · collected april 2025 · 16 lines
You wrote yes eleven times. Once, oh no. This is for you.
Attending
poem · collected february 2026 · 16 lines
From a Latin verb that means to stretch toward — on doctors, sunflowers, and practicing the reaching.