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“Grieco has curated a vibrant, pulsing mosaic of human experience.”

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See you at the 2025 Washington Writers Conference!

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See you at the 2025 Manuscript to Marketplace Writers Conference! 

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Read my new Get LIT column in the Washington City Paper!

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About Me

I am a writer, developmental editor, teacher, and disability advocate in the Washington, DC area. You can read my work in The Washington Post, The Week, Al Jazeera, The Independent, Huffington Post, Craft Literary, Brevity, The Rumpus, Shenandoah, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Poet Lore, Fairy Tale Review, and many more newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. My writing has been included in the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for Best American Essays, The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictionn. I write a monthly column about authors and books for Washington City Paper, and edit novels and prose collections for various small presses.

I have a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Education, extensive teaching experience, and I love to speak with large and small groups about education, disability support, mental health, and all things writing! I currently teach creative writing, literature, and composition/rhetoric at American University and Marymount University. I have participated on and/or moderated panels at AWP, The Washington Writers Conference, The Writer’s Center, the 1455 Summer Literary Festival, Conversations and Connections, and more.

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Advocacy

Essays and Fiction

They rage, and I struggle to help 

An essay published in The Washington Post.

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One to Ten

Honorable Mention in Pigeon Page’s Short Fiction Contest!

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The Novel, The Map

An essay featured in Craft Literary.

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