Selected Writing

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Women, Self, and Society

  • Kara Loewentheil Says How You Think about Yourself Is Your Superpower

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, June, 2024

  • Historian Janus Adams Is Fighting Back

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, April, 2023

  • Kathy Sidell Believes Success Requires This One Crucial Thing

    Liberty Road

  • Why Canada's Former First Lady Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Says “We’re All One Trauma Away from Each Other”

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, May 2024

  • Melissa Gilbert Reflects on Aging, Staying Vibrant, and What She'd Tell Her Younger Self

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, February 2024

  • For Julia Turshen, the Goal Is to Feel Free

    Liberty Road

  • Gillian Anderson Asked Women to Share Their Sexual Fantasies

    — Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, October 2024

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Essays & Reporting

  • Even After Dying, Andrea Gibson Shows Us How to Live

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, November, 2025

  • 5 Ways to Be a Better Listener In Your Relationships

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, October, 2025

  • Never Fake an Orgasm Again—and Other Truths I Learned at 40

    —Camille Styles, February, 2025

  • It’s Time to Break Down Society’s Binary Views on Motherhood

    —Vitruvi

  • A Perfect Weekend in Mexico’s Wine Country

    Goop

  • How to Heal after Losing a Pregnancy

    Goop

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Profiles and Interviews

  • Arthur C. Brooks Has the Secret to More Joy

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, August, 2025

  • Rainn Wilson Says We’re in Need of a Spiritual Revolution—and We Can Start by Doing This One Small Thing

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, July, 2023

  • A Fire Took Pico Iyer’s Home. 30 Years Later, He Explores the Grief, Lessons, and Surprises of It All

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, January, 2025

  • Social Justice Attorney Lindsay Toczylowksi on the Immigration Raids in LA

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper

  • Acclaimed Journalist Lisa Ling Explores One of the Most Critical Topics Facing Humanity

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, September 2024

  • Phil Stutz on Why Gratitude Is a Creative Act

    Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, November 2024

  • Novelist Jodi Piccoult on the Power of Storytelling

    — Maria Shirver’s Sunday Paper, August 2024

Video Reporting

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  • How veterans find meaning and purpose in therapy dogs, Part One

    FOX-14 TV

  • How veterans find meaning and purpose in therapy dogs, Part Two

    FOX-14 TV

  • Veterans share their experiences with VA healthcare

    KOAM TV

  • The joy of being a ham radio enthusiast

    KOAM TV

  • Carla Rockmore on taking risks in midlife

    — Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper

  • The Disappearance of Small-Town America