Articles & Essays

I’m best known for my website, CaptainAwkward.com, but I write and perform personal essays throughout the Chicago area and have written content for many online publications.

Vox:

• Do This For Me: How to convince older loved ones to socially distance 

VICE:

• How to Go Home for the Holidays When Your Family Is A Bit Much
• A Beginner’s Guide to Hosting Family for the Holidays Without Melting Down
• How To Get Through Isolation With Your Family When They Are A Bit Much
• How To Argue With Your Parents Like A Fellow Adult
• What To Do If Your Sibling Is Treating Your Parents Badly

BuzzFeed:

• Here’s What It’s Really Like To Be An Internet Advice Columnist (A conversation with Captain Awkward, Ask A Manager, Dear Prudence, Slate’s Care & Feeding, Ask A Clean Person, and Dr. NerdLove edited by Rachel Miller)
• Six Awkward Holiday Conversations You’re Dreading And How To Deal With Them 

The Archipelago (previously a literary magazine on Medium):

• When My Mom Was An Astronaut

Story Club Magazine (a web magazine that collects essays that were written as performance pieces):

• Alternate Endings to Hamlet
• Making New Friends At Camp

The Coral Project (a New York Times, Washington Post, and Mozilla Foundation project to help news organizations improve community engagement, now part of Vox Media):

• Why Captain Awkward Wanted A Different Kind Of Comments, July 2017

IndieWire:

• As Captain Awkward, I wrote a series of advice columns for characters in prestige TV dramas for IndieWire in 2014.
• The Hannibal one is the best.