Selected Essays:

• [Upcoming] Santa Carola y su Corolla - Pheobe

• Memory War - Winner of the Columbia Journal 2025 Winter Print Contest

• Cellulose - Twin Bird Review

• Fractures - Sundog Lit

• Tropical Tinnitus - The Palisades Review

• Crested Oropendola - The Acentos Review

• Machines for Freedom - Sport Literate

• Watching the Watchmen - Encephalon

• Words that make me feel less alone - Tiny Love Story in the New York Times

• Opinion Piece: Good Intentions Can't Hide Bad Science: Synapse, UCSF Student Newspaper

Awards/Fellowships:

• Periplus Fellow, 2026

• Shortlisted for the 2024 Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest for nonfiction

Workshops

• Macondo Writer’s Conference, 2025

• Tin House, VONA, Lighthouse LitFest, Rooted and Written Fellowship by the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto, 2024

Work published during my neuroscience PhD (*first author, meaning one of the main authors)

• *Distinct Thalamic Reticular Cell Types Differentially Modulate Normal and Pathological Cortical Rhythms: Cell Reports, June 06, 2017

• *Mafb and c-Maf Have Prenatal Compensatory and Postnatal Antagonistic Roles in Cortical Interneuron Fate and Function: Cell Reports, Jan 29, 2019

• Nav1.1-Overexpressing Interneuron Transplants Restore Brain Rhythms and Cognition in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease: Neuron, April 04, 2018

• Conditional Bistability, a Generic Cellular Mnemonic Mechanism for Robust and Flexible Working Memory Computations: Journal of Neuroscience, May 30, 2018

• Augmented Reticular Thalamic Bursting and Seizures in Scn1a-Dravet Syndrome: Cell Reports, Jan 22, 2019

• Gamma rhythms and visual information in mouse V1 specifically modulated by somatostatin+ neurons in reticular thalamus: eLife, April 12 2021

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