Saved is a mixture of object, ethnography, and language combined with a sense of personal intimacy that addresses our human mortality. The work engages readers' collective and individual memories through everyday objects, such as a star ornament and a worn matchbook.

Individually photographed on a white background, with close attention to the wear apparent on its surface, each object embodies a unique presence and biography. The prose evokes the relationships, experiences, and memories between the objects of the dead, the relatives and friends who saved them, and the deceased. Based on interviews with the object owners, the interviewee's language is directly incorporated into the prose, as language also contains the power to mediate loss. 

Published by Artsuite (Wilson, NC), the book also includes “Mattering,” an essay by Cora Fisher, Curator of Visual Arts Programming at the Brooklyn Public Library, and micro-essays with photographs by five artists/authors: Sonya Clark, Alex Espinoza, Erika Hayasaki, Swati Khurana, and Leslie Gray Streeter. 

Works from Saved: Objects of the Dead have been shown in over thirty exhibitions, published in five literary journals, and featured in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.