Crip Time in Pandemic Times at AWP 2022
I’m so excited to be speaking on a panel at AWP again! […]
Author: Marlena Chertock
Marlena is a digital storyteller and poetry editor at District Lit. Her first poetry book, On that one-way trip to Mars, is available from Bottlecap Press.
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Disability Justice is Climate Justice
I’m one little person. That’s partly a pun, because I have dwarfism […]
Interviewed on Plume for Writers Podcast
I was so happy to receive an email from Sam Tetangco to […]
Interviewed on DC Public Library’s Podcast
When Jenny Cavallero, a D.C.-based comedian, writer, filmmaker, actor, and disabled person, […]
AWP 2021
On Wednesday, I moderated the panel “Disability’s Influence on Literature: Realism As […]
Poetry in a Pandemic
It feels like March 2020 and December 37th at the same time, […]
Co-Chairing OutWrite, Washington D.C.’s LGBTQ Literary Festival 🏳️🌈📚📝
I am so excited to serve as the new OutWrite Co-Chair, along […]
Thank you, Nancy 💜
I can’t believe Nancy Podcast is coming to an end. It’s been […]
Last flight for On that one-way trip to Mars
Sadly my first book, On that one-way trip to Mars, is now […]
Social Distancing and Poetry
While self-quarantining and social distancing, it is more important than ever to […]
The Future is Disabled: Planning for Climate Change Must Include People with Disabilities
This essay first appeared in the Entropy Inherited Newsletter Last June, I […]
Crumb-sized a finalist in Etchings Press 2019 Whirling Prize
I’m so honored that my book Crumb-sized: Poems was included as a […]
Climate change planning must include the disabled 🌍♿
Update: Read my feature on climate change and disability in the January […]
Find me at these poetry events in 2020
Last year really flew by for me. Is this what getting older […]
A Year (& Decade) in Review: My 2019 Publications
As a new year and new decade looms, I’m reflecting back on […]
Poetry mentorship? Yes, it’s a thing!
“Sometimes all you need is someone to assure you that you’re a […]
Give the gift of reading 🎁📚
Still need to do your holiday shopping? Why not give the gift […]
Summer reading
Looking for some summer reading? I’ve got you covered! Find me and other […]
Micro-fiction published in Paper Darts ✨🚀🔴
Paper Darts Magazine chose my quirky sci-fi story about astronauts getting periods in […]
The power of sharing secrets
Earlier this summer, I attended a zine-making workshop at East City Books, […]