other writing
Essays, Fiction, Translation
The Art of Stillness
Guernica, June 2020
**honored as Notable in Best American Essays 2021
[figure modeling, cancer screenings, images of the body]
In Case You Need Reminding, A Book is Not a Baby
LitHub, Sept. 2020
[inadequate metaphors, motherhood, writing]
In Search of the Miraculous
Kaleidescoped, Winter 2021
[google searches, a separation, Bas Jan Ader, mirrors]
7 Books About Authorship Hoaxes
Electric Literature, Dec. 2023
[plagiarism, literary scams, appropriating other people’s stories]
Tip of the Tongue
Entropy, May 2021
[dementia, grief, composure while caregiving, forgetting]
The Acknowledgements Are My Favorite Part of a Book
Electric Literature, July 2021
[acknowledgments page, paratext, literary community]
The Hunter and the Hunted
Catapult, Sept. 2019
[being stalked, running, obsessive attraction]
Savage Skin
Palimpsest, 2019
[FICTION: childhood best friends, top surgery, mastectomies
Petrushka by Pepa Merlo (trans. from Spanish)
Alchemy, Winter 2018
[FICTION: watching strangers, time passing, distance]
Every Bed I’ve Ever Slept In
Cosmonauts Avenue, 2017
[lovers, prophecy, the uncanny, grief]
The Art of Attention
Electric Literature, March 2018
[teaching poetry, making performances for one person, Odyssey Works, close attention]
CRITICISM
BOMB, Summer 2025 [print]
Master of memoir Melissa Febos highlights the paradox that renunciation brings us into closer relationship with what we give up. I predict a “hot celibacy summer” afoot for many after reading this book.
Full Stop, Summer 2021
Epistolary criticism written with Leora Fridman, interweaving queer theory, Black studies, friendship, eros, intellect, art, religion, body, and breath.
SFMoMA’s Open Space, Nov. 2020
On Jemila MacEwan’s endurance performance, Human Meteorite, in which they dug an impact crater daily for a month in Point Reyes, CA.
BOMB, Spring 2023 [print]
Catherine Lacey’s criminally good novel troubles the boundary between performance and life, person and persona, as the narrator C. M. Lucca attempts to write a biography of her wife, the acclaimed artist X.
Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2018
Tamar Adler revises retro-kitsch recipes for dishes like Baked Alaska, Oysters Rockefeller, or Oeufs en Gelée.
Glasstire, July 2017
On Send Me SFMoMA, a program developed by Jay Mollica that allows phone users to poetically stumble upon works in the museum’s massive collection.
Los Angeles Review of Books, Nov. 2023
Conceptual artist Sophia Giovannitti reveals some of the gristliest joints of sex, power, money, and meaning in this work of autotheory about sex work and the artworld.
Glasstire, April 2017
Sharon Louden gathers 40 artists to create a picture of artistic citizenship, where competition is eschewed in favor of collaboration and camaraderie.
Glasstire, March 2017
Catherine Lacey and Forsyth Harmon create a web influence, tracing artists’ messy extramarital affairs, unrequited crushes, second and third marriages, lifelong friendships, fruitful mentorships, and inspiring muses and the art that was made as a result.
