Poetry
Variations on Home and Lines in Sink Review No. 19
BEWILDERMENT and Vocation in Your Impossible Voice
Five prose poems at Tarpaulin Sky Press
Iraklio, written for The Lakkos Artists Residency in Heraklion, Crete
The Flood, After the Flood, and Cloister Kitchen in The Inquisitive Eater
A Reader’s Guide to Exile and Novel at NOÖ Journal, selected by guest editor Melissa Broder
Three poems at Coconut
The City Dreaming at Poet Republik
Longing Sonnet at The Best American Poetry Blog
Poems have appeared in print in:
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, anthology published by Red Hen Press, Barrow Street , Denver Quarterly, The Homestead Review, LIT, Mantis, Redivider, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Valley Voices
Prose
A Skilled Sport, an essay on the performance of femininity, the “Latin woman,” sexual harassment… in Gulf Coast Online.
The Science of Silence, a short story in Kenyon Review Online.
On Consumption, an essay on eating in the “First World” and the “Third World” in The Inquisitive Eater
Book Reviews
2023
Mothers and Dogs by Fabio Morabito. Short stories in translation. Review in the Chicago Review of Books.
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe. A heady experiment in genre that grapples with anti-Black racism and its long history. Review in the Chicago Review of Books.
2022
The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan. Duras’ second novel, translated to English for the first time. Review in the Chicago Review of Books.
Girl by Camille Laurens, translated by Adriana Hunter. Review in the Chicago Review of Books.
2021
Real Estate by Deborah Levy. The third installment in her beautiful “working autobiography” about being an artist, woman, mother after age 40, in The Chicago Review of Books.
To Walk Alone in the Crowd by Antonio Muñoz Molina, trans. from Spanish by Guillermo Bleichmar. A novel of collaged advertising, literary biography, love story, for lovers of modernism, Edgar Allan Poe, cities (Madrid, New York, Paris), flaneurs, found poetry, in The Chicago Review of Books.
Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios. A polyphonic, experimental short story collection translated from Spanish, in The Literary Review
In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend. A nonfiction deep dive into the places and people in the current mushroom craze, in The Chicago Review of Books
FEM by Magda Carneci. A poetic novel, exploring revelations based on a young woman’s sexual development and dreams, translated from Romanian, in The Chicago Review of Books.
Unsolaced: Along the Way to All There Is by Gretel Ehrlich, an elegy to wild places, by an adventurer and amazing woman, in The Chicago Review of Books
2020
Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans, a passionate work of advocacy by Deborah Rowan Wright, in The Chicago Review of Books
We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth, a memoir by tech millionaire Jennifer Risher in The Chicago Review of Books
The Beauty of Their Youth, a short story collection by Joyce Hinnefeld in The Literary Review
A Woman Like Her, a nonfiction account of the honor killing of Qandeel Baloch, by Sanam Maher, in The Chicago Review of Books
Topics of Conversation, a novel by Miranda Popkey, in The Chicago Review of Books
Other Stuff
An interview by The New School Writing Program on my years curating the “Monday Night Poetry” reading series at KGB Bar in New York City
“Notes on Nostalgia,” guest post on The Best American Poetry Blog
Other guest posts on The Best American Poetry Blog: “What Copy Writing Taught Me about Poetry,” “Why Do People Go to Poetry Readings?”, “Borges and the Case of the Traitorous Translator,”