I write articles for a variety of publications on Medium, including Travel Memoirs and Know Thyself, Heal Thyself. 
​Find my essays HERE: medium.com/@elenavalewahl_73956

I contributed to the level:deepsouth online anthology, a collection of stories from members of Gen. X set in the South. Sadly, that anthology went offline in December of 2023. You can read my essay on the blog section of this site.

Click here to read my Scary Mommy piece on experiences as a female Boy Scouts volunteer.

Here are articles I wrote for CityBeat, a local Cincinnati paper, published under my former name,
​Elena Stevenson: www.citybeat.com/author/elena-stevenson

I also wrote pieces on community issues and economic development for Soapbox Cincinnati as Elena Stevenson. 
A profile of Asian Community Alliance: http://www.soapboxmedia.com/features/0728asiancommalliance.aspx 
A piece on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles contributor: http://www.soapboxmedia.com/innovationnews/1201tmnt.aspx
An article on a specialty cookie business: http://www.soapboxmedia.com/innovationnews/420queen-city-cookies.aspx

When I first ventured into fiction, I wrote movie screenplays. One of them, "Night of Dreams," placed third in Cincinnati Film Festival's Short Feature Screenplay Competition in 2011.