A selection of writings that can be found online.
Essays:
On being a writer parent to a child with language disabilities, Psychology Today
On the subject of the lasting damage of child abuse, The Rumpus
On my fears about life under Trump, before the election of 2016, The Rumpus
On craft, the use of secondary characters, Hunger Mountain
On the writer’s life and learning along the way, The Review Review
On life’s imponderables, and how to write about them, Redux Lit Journal (originally in Colorado Review)
A wry look at being swamped by life, New York Times
Interviews:
On Weekend Edition, NPR
With Lisa L. Lewis on Literary Mama
With Natalie Baszile on The Rumpus
With Catherine La Sota on Electric Literature
With Leah Hood, on the subject of being “older”, Medium.com
With Nichole Bernier, on what constitutes “success”, Fiction Writers Review
Book Reviews:
On Samrat Upadhyay’s Mad City, New York Times
On Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, New York Times
On Christine Sneed’s Paris He Said, New York Times
Short Fiction:
“A Country Where You Once Lived”, in Hunger Mountain, from If I loved you, I would tell you this