This is a love letter to my people, my family and a version of me trying to overcome the trauma of almost seeing their mother die.
Autoethnographic Writing
Whether short-form or long-form, personal memoir or speculative fiction, The AutoEthnographer seeks to publish your evocative expressions of the cultural made personal.
Gratitude is a recurring theme I hear from readers of Patricia Leavy’s social fiction. This is an essay about Patricia Leavy novels.
"From dancing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Cow Palace in San Francisco, every venue taught me valuable lessons."
I share real world examples of why I believe the trans community uses empathy as a powerful tool to combat transphobia and promote self-love.
The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir Author’s Memo My memoir is about my growing up as the daughter of a Freudian...
There are multiple approaches to find one's poetic voice depending on the lens one chooses as a part of the author’s creative process.
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
This is a humorous narrative nonfiction account of the strangest job I ever had working for a kooky fitness guru in Manhattan for six years.
This particular piece, "What is Human, Remains" looks back at my first year as a teacher, and the unexpected activism in my students.
"In this autoethnodrama, a woman terminates a pregnancy without telling her husband."
"How universal homesickness is, even for those who didn’t come from the best homes; these salmon came from Concrete, Washington, and they still fight like hell to come back every single year."
This autoethnographic essay offers a musing on the intricate relationship between language, writing and identity through an autoethnographic account of my reading and writing experience from childhood to present, and from China to the UK via Germany.