“A Visceral Scroll through the Smokelong Quarterly Barbie Catalog.” Smokelong Quarterly. 27 Dec. 2023. Web. Craft essay/review.

“Another Bride in Porto.” The Keeping Room, Minerva Rising Press. 6 April 2023. Web.

NAR Cover: Gary Kelley

 

Emerson’s Egypt.” North American Review. Vol. 306.3. Fall 2021. Print. Cited on list of “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2021” in Best American Essays  2022, edited by Alexander Chee.

Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with YiYun Li. A Public Space Books. 14 Sept. 2021.  Print. (After taking part in a Twitter-based online book club reading of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, facilitated  by A Public Space, a literary magazine and organization, and fiction writer Yiyun Li, my “tweets” were among those selected for an anthology of materials and essays.  This active reading series continues as APStogether on Substack)

Kissing Her Ellipses: Dreams and Narrative Texture in Nabokov’s “Ultima Thule Theme”.” Nabokov Studies, vol. 17, 2020, p. 85-95. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nab.2020.0008.

“Pennies for Imagination, Wildflowers for Details.” Kenyon Review Online, Nov./Dec. 2019. Web. Longlisted for Wigleaf magazine’s Top 50 (2020)

Pagophagia, 1912.” Wikimedia Foundation. Heart of Knowledge. Issue 1. Web/e-zine. July 2019. Web.

What Mennonite Girls are Good For.” Witness: The Modern Writer as Witness. Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Vol. XXXII, No. 1. Spring 2019.

The Interrogator Recites a Love Song

Cover art: Plympton

The Interrogator Recites a Love Song.” Simply E, New York Public Library and Plympton. August 2018. Reprint of the original:  “The Interrogator Recites a Love Song.” Witness: The Modern Writer as Witness. Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  28.1. 2015.  Print. Cited on list of “Distinguished Short Stories “  in Best American Short Stories 2016, edited by Junot Diaz.

Everything That’s Something Comes From Chicago.” Hemingway Shorts, Vol. 3. May 2018. Print

“The Body Confesses.” Scoundrel Time. 3 April 2018.

“Purpose of Plunder.”  Midwestern Gothic. Web. 20 Aug. 2015. (Reprint:  Nucleus: A Faculty Commons Quarterly. Vol. 9: Winter 2018. New York City College of Technology. Page 15.)

Foragers by Jennifer Sears

Foragers: Cover by Electric Literature

 

“Foragers.”  Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading Series. Issue 248. Feb. 15, 2017

“Foragers” appears also in Electric Literature’s collection: 11 Stories and 1 Poem On the Power and Prison of Gender

“Of Faith Broken Open and Other Evidences of Love (A Response to poet Jeff Gundy’s Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace). Mennonite Life.Vol. 70. 1 June 2016.

“My Emerson.” Emerson Society Papers Vol. 27.1  Spring 2016. Print. 9-11.Writer Mary Gaitskill

Interview. “Mary Gaitskill: Never the End.”  Guernica Magazine. Web. 14 May 2016. Web. Interview with Mary Gaitskill about her publication of the Mare,  the physical nature of writing, and the likeness between the writing process and the digestive system.

“Canticle for Gigi Sauvageau.” Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. Special issue: “Boundaries of Taste.” 15 June 2015.

Excerpt from "Hem" by Jenny Saville

From “Hem” by Jenny Saville, Guernica Magazine

“Sleepers.” J  Journal: New Writing on Justice. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.  8.1. Spring 2015. Print.

“Prayer Song for Johnny Cash (Who Stepped in to Save My Poor Soul).” Cosmonauts Avenue.  Volume 1, Issue 6. 15 April 2015.

Prayer Song for Johnny Cash-Cosmonauts Avenue

Prayer Song for Johnny Cash-Cosmonauts Avenue

“Sins and Symbols.”  Fiction International: Phobia/Philia.  #47. Ed. Harold Jaffe.   San Diego State University, San Diego, California. November 2014.

 “If Love is an Idea.”  Sequestrum. 1.1 March 2014. Web.

“You Can Be Madonna If You Want To.”  Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and the Humanities. Vol. 8, No. 2.  University of Toronto. Spring 2012.

“How to Be a Staircase.” Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. Dec. 2010. (A strange piece but one of my favorites. I miss those dance days.)

“Players.”  Lost and Found: Stories of New York. Vol. 2. Ed. Thomas Beller. New York: Open City Press. 2009. Anthology.

 “Foragers.” So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Vol. 16, No. 2 George Mason University. Summer/Fall 2007. Winner of fiction contest.

“A Slight Change in Tuesdays.” Fence. Vol. 9, No. 1. Winter/Spring 2006. Cited in Best American Non-Required Reading.

 “The Order.” Ninth Letter: Arts and Literary Journal.  Vol. 1, No. 2 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Fall/Winter 2004.