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    Bylines.

• Foreign Policy
• Fansplaining
• Vox, 2016–2025
• The Daily Dot, 2012–2016
• The Backlot (formerly After Elton), 2012–2013 (offline)
• Salon
• The Mary Sue, 2011–2012
• Manga Bookshelf, 2011
• Common Ties, 2006–2007 (offline)
• The Columbus Dispatch, 2004–2005
• The Bloomington Herald-Times, 2000–2003

     Miscellaneous.

• 2020, co-wrote and hosted the BBC Radio 4 documentary Can I Still Read Harry Potter?
• Submissions Editor, Big Bang Press, 2013–2014; oversaw 15 participating authors through outlining, drafting, writing, revising, and pitching their manuscripts
• Edited the YA fantasy A Hero at the End of the World, a Kirkus Best Book of 2014
• Book Smugglers notable Young Adult book blogger, 2010
• Co-created/ran the first Big Bang fanfiction challenges, which became a widespread multi-fandom fic/art challenge format still popular today

Other writing.

• I have a newsletter! It is about Wang Yibo! 
• Co-created the Shenanigansverse, about a bunch of insufferable Boston theatre kids and their insufferable hijinks
• Co-wrote and produced the fannish rom-com audio drama podcast Kaleidotrope, about a magical college campus where all the tropes are real, starring James Evans and Matthew Menendez, nominated for Audioverse awards for Best Writing and Best New Podcast, 2018
• “Ndoli Jowei at the Church of Signs Following” — short story about a trans girl who visits a charismatic church and discovers she speaks snake, published in the Fight Like a Girl  YA anthology, 2013
• I Seem To Be a Verb, an Arthur/Eames Notting Hill AU in which Eames is Tom Hardy and Arthur runs a nerdy applied sciences bookstore.