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§ 03 — Creative Nonfiction & Personal

The notebook— essays, in a quieter voice.

Where the reporting ends and the reflecting begins. Personal essays and literary nonfiction, entered through the image that started each one. Tap a frame to read.

Journalism · FeatureCat. 5 · Fall 2025

Underresearched to erased: women's healthcare through birth control

Four college students on birth control as the center of women's healthcare — and what it means as reproductive rights come under attack.

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Journalism · Feature2025

Student numbers, lopsided demographics are dating challenges at Eckerd

With 70% women and 30% men on campus, students on what dating and hookup culture really look like at a small liberal arts college.

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Journalism · Profile2025

“Is this place run by teenagers?”

How a Minnehaha Park seafood shack came to be run, almost entirely, by the kids of the neighborhood.

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Journalism · Feature2025

“It's probably the best place on earth”

Fifty years on Anna Maria Island, two hurricanes, and what “old Florida” loses when it rebuilds.

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Personal essayApr 2026

Te amo sempre, filha

Returning to Curitiba, and the host mother whose love outran her politics.

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Personal essaySummer

A Red Tide Summer

A summer guiding kayak tours on Anna Maria Island, and the red tide that turned the bay to a graveyard.

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Personal essayAutumn

Hello, again.

The memory of a seventh grade sleepover, in a college bar.

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Personal essay2025

Questions for a Bisexual

The questions people ask when you come out — and the answers I kept to myself.

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Creative NonfictionSpring 2020

Because, Minneapolis

A litany for a home city — written in the spring of 2020, and offered again now.

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