Courtney Eldridge has written for McSweeney’s, The New York Times Magazine, Nerve, and others.
Her essay "Thanks, But No Thanks" [full text
here
] was included in the collection
Alone in a Kitchen with an Eggplant
by Jenni Ferrari-Adler.
“You know, there was a part of me that was so defiant, and a part of me that was so ashamed, and I really couldn’t say which was which at any given point in time. ”