ESSAYS

GOING BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE I WAS RAPED - Women In The World / The New York Times

This is a personal essay in The New York Times, in the Women in the World section.  I've been working on it off-and-on for the past nine months — it was particularly difficult to write. Last summer, Colorado College invited me to return, and this article is the story of what happened when I went back and spoke publicly at CC about the rape the college had denied back when it happened.

A HIKER'S GUIDE TO HEALING - Modern Love, The New York Times

ON JOHN MUIR'S "TRAVELS IN ALASKA" - Tin House Literary Magazine

TWO MINUTE MEMOIR: THE NEWLYWED EXAMINATION - Psychology Today

THE WAY THROUGH - The Walrus

PROFILES

INTO THE WILD WITH ASPEN MATIS - Interview Magazine

RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF A CAMPUS RAPE - Dame Magazine

AFTER BEING RAPED HER FRESHMEN YEAR, THIS YOUNG WOMAN HIKED OVER 2,000 MILES TO SAVE HERSELF - Cosmopolitan

GIRL IN THE WOODS: SALON TALKS WITH THE AUTHOR ABOUT COMPASSION FOR SURVIVORS AND LEARNING STRENGTH THROUGH INDEPENDENCE - Salon

WHY WALKING THE HAZARDOUS PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ENABLED MATIS TO 'HEAL' - The Daily Mail 

MEMOIR EXCERPTS

HOW GETTING RAPED ON MY SECOND DAY OF COLLEGE LED TO A DARING DECISION - MarieClaire

GIRL IN THE WOODS: AN EXCERPT - Honeysuckle

REAL GIRL STORIES: ASPEN MATIS - Seventeen

REVIEWS

MS. MAGAZINE

MUSIC

I shared my book's music playlist today with Largehearted Boy editor David Gutowski. Check it out here.