is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
Narrating Estrangement is written by those who have decided to distance themselves from, or have been driven out by, their families.
"My parents drank wine with dinner every night. There’s nothing remarkable about that, but to a kid growing up in Mid-Missouri it was weird."
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents Author’s Memo “The Wave” examines the problem of pleasure and...
In the autoethnographic "Spinach Lasagna", the narrator joins a family of southern Italians and learns that grieving is cultural.
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
"This autoethnographic poetry is born of my personal experience, witness, as well as currently chronicled and ancestral lore."
Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentAutoethnographic MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
··13 min read"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
"I wrote Asha’s story to give voice to all the women in rural Bangladesh who cannot speak out against their abusers or society."
