At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write
Lit Hub

I have to be good at so many things. Can’t I be bad at tennis?
Motherwell

A Love Letter to My Mother-in-Law
Cup of Jo

In Praise of the Campus Novel
Lit Hub

Fictionalizing the Lower East Side: Assimilation and Opportunity in the Jewish Immigrant Experience
Jewish Book Council

In Treatment?
Bookends, 2021

What My Mentor Taught Me: Susan Scarf Merrell on Cutting Timelines and Embracing the Blank Space
Bookends, 2021

BookEnds Alumni Inaugural Speaker Event: Rebecca Makkai on Time in Endings 
Stony Brook, 2021

“My Amazon Order History Tells Me Who I Was—And Who I Am”
Your Teen Magazine, 2019

“When do you stick something even when you’re not the best at it?”
Motherwell Magazine, 2019

“My Mother Is Not This Blanket”
Full Grown People, 2018

“Birds”
Full Grown People, 2016

“On Being My Children’s Memory Keeper”
Motherwell Magazine, 2016

“Seven and still sucking his thumb”
Motherwell Magazine, 2016

“Reunited”
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 2016

“Unaccompanied Minor”
Mamalode, 2015

“New Canaan”
Halfway Down the Stairs, 2015

“Crash”
Named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2016 edited by Jonathan Franzen
Under the Gum Tree, 2015

“My Son’s Bris Was Going Fine—Until I Needed to Prove I’m Jewish”
Kveller, 2015

“Clutch Situation”
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 2013