Where to find my work
The opening chapter of Funeral Games
(Longlisted for the Crime Writer’s Association Emerging Dagger Prize, 2025)
Helen Cantor has been the faculty advisor to the admissions department at her small alpine liberal arts college for so long that no one can remember exactly when she got there—including Helen herself. But when the department’s unpleasant admin ends up dead right before the campus’ annual re-enactment of the Funeral Games from Book XXIII of the Iliad, it’s up to Helen and her former student Julia, now a paid consultant working to “maximize enrollment and achieve the college’s revenue goals,” to figure out how the admin died, just in time to save both the Funeral Games and the college’s big admissions weekend.
The Atlantic
The Surprising Eighteenth-Century Origins of Fanfiction
What Jane Austen Thought Marriage Couldn’t Do
The Radical Eighteenth-Century Way of Paying for College
Advice From the Eighteenth Century: How to Write a Business Letter
Adam Smith and the Romance Novel
Vox
Teaching Veronica Mars in a Season of Campus Sex Crimes
Vice Terraform
The Future of Urban Housing (short story)
Reunion (short story), also re-published in Watch/Worlds/Burn
NEA/Santa Fe Reads Library Competition, 2024 (First Prize)
The Hero and Her Mother: On seeing the Greeks again with my five-year-old daughter
Santa Fe Reporter, 2024 Writing Contest winner
Adam Smith Works
Gulliver’s Travels: Adam Smith’s Favorite Novel
Why Adam Smith Hated Epictetus
Jane’s Austen’s Theory of Moral Sentiments: Pride, Prejudice, and Prudence
Sense, Sensibility, and Adam Smith
The Failed Spectator in Persuasion
Public Lectures
“Against Stoicism: Adam Smith’s Literary Answer to Epictetus”
“The Virtues of Jane Austen’s Good Enough Parents”
“Wealth and Virtue in Jane Austen”