How Straight Spouses Cope When Their Partners Come Out
Can Hailing a Ride Really Be About Making Friends Again?
Don’t Call Me "Lucky" For Not Having Been Sexually Assaulted
Taste of Home
The Sentence Thief
Father Christmas
Glad I'm Not You
"Hello, is it me you're looking for?"
Photo Credit: Melody Rowell
Welcome! I'm a writer in Washington, D.C., who looks for stories that resonate beyond the Beltway. And I'm committed to telling those stories well. In 2014, I published a widely shared feature story in Slate on straight spouses—straight men and women who used to be married to gay partners. Over the course of a year, I interviewed a cross-section of sources, including a psychotherapist who helps straight spouses adjust to life on the other side of the closet door and the founder of a suburban D.C. chapter of the Gay Married Men's Association.
I can't shake my love for a good essay, often combining the personal with the critical. I've written about the language of sexual assault for DAME Magazine; my tough-guy dad, “Brooklyn Tommy,” for The Toast; schadenfreude for The Morning News; and on a range of topics for other publications.
In my previous life, I covered Capitol Hill for a Bloomberg subsidiary. At some point, I will write about the time a member of Congress asked me—lucky me, the only female reporter in sight—what I thought it was like to birth a conference report and compared it to passing his kidney stone.
I mostly write nonfiction, because you really can't make up gems like that. I have a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. I’m also dabbling in fiction and having more fun with it than I ever could have imagined.
Editorial assignments welcome! Please email me at chgrimaldi [at] gmail [dot] com. Or, you can connect below. Thanks!
I can't shake my love for a good essay, often combining the personal with the critical. I've written about the language of sexual assault for DAME Magazine; my tough-guy dad, “Brooklyn Tommy,” for The Toast; schadenfreude for The Morning News; and on a range of topics for other publications.
In my previous life, I covered Capitol Hill for a Bloomberg subsidiary. At some point, I will write about the time a member of Congress asked me—lucky me, the only female reporter in sight—what I thought it was like to birth a conference report and compared it to passing his kidney stone.
I mostly write nonfiction, because you really can't make up gems like that. I have a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. I’m also dabbling in fiction and having more fun with it than I ever could have imagined.
Editorial assignments welcome! Please email me at chgrimaldi [at] gmail [dot] com. Or, you can connect below. Thanks!
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