Essays and Recommended Reading
“I Stole My Neighbors’ Tragedy to Write a Short Story,” Electric Lit
“Twelve Haunting American Short Stories to Read this Halloween,” Electric Lit
“Running Joke,” WOMEN = BOOKS, Wellesley Centers for Women WRB Blog
“What You’re Not Reading Now,” for WOMEN = BOOKS, Wellesley Centers for Women WRB Blog
“Middle-Age Spread,” for WOMEN = BOOKS, Wellesley Centers for Women WRB Blog
“Free to Be, Cinderella and Me” for WOMEN = BOOKS, Wellesley Centers for Women WRB Blog
“The Then of Now,” Talking Writing
Book Reviews
“In a Library, There are No Hypocrites,” Review of Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith for WOMEN = BOOKS, Wellesley Centers for Women WRB Blog
“Things Underneath.” Review of How to Be Both by Ali Smith. Women’s Review of Books
“Nothing But Being Told You Don’t Belong.” Review of How To Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique, and Goree: Point of Departure by Angela Barry. Women’s Review of Books
“Sarah Silverman: Idiot Savant.” Review of The Bedwetter, by Sarah Silverman. Talking Writing, April 2011.
“Sticky Tables.” Review of Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson. Women’s Review of Books
“Brought to Light.” Review of The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett and Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy. Women’s Review of Books
“Disoriginated.” Review of Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen, The Incognito Body by Cynthia Hogue, and Innovative Women Poets. Women’s Review of Books
“Taking the Risk.” Essay review of The View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro and The Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien. Women’s Review of Books
“Bait and Switch.” Review of Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead. The Cincinnati Review 3:2
“The Stuff of Wonder.” Review of Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender, Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, and Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz. Women’s Review of Books
Blog Posts and Interviews
“One Year In: Writing the Novel,” my interview series for the Ploughshares blog
Blog posts for Ploughshares are collected on this page.
In Honor of National Short Story Month: Antonya Nelson, and “Here Is a Little Something To Remember Me By,” by Dan Chaon, Missouri Review
Scholarly Chapters in Edited Books
“Vision and Re-Vision in Creative Writing Pedagogies.” Exploring Signature Pedagogies. Nancy Chick, Regan Gurung, and Aeron Haynie, editors. Stylus Press. 2008.
“‘The Sun’s Children’: Shadow Work in the Black Arts Poetry of LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka.” Post-Jungian Criticism. Ed. James S. Baumlin, Tita F. Baumlin, and George H. Jensen. Buffalo: The State University Press of New York, 2003.
“The Entanglements of Teaching Nappy Hair.” Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics. Ed. Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen Reddy. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2002.
