Interviewed on Plume for Writers Podcast
I was so happy to receive an email from Sam Tetangco to join an LGBTQ writers roundtable for the Plume: a writer’s […]
Tag: writing
Last flight for On that one-way trip to Mars
Sadly my first book, On that one-way trip to Mars, is now out of print. My publisher Bottlecap Press informed me that […]
A Year (& Decade) in Review: My 2019 Publications
As a new year and new decade looms, I’m reflecting back on the writing and publication success I’ve experienced. I still can’t […]
AWP 2019 panels accepted!
I’m thrilled that TWO of my panels were accepted for the AWP 2019 conference in Portland, Oregon! Dates/times still TBA. So keep […]
New job with World Resources Institute!
I am super excited to announce that I’m starting a new phase in my career! After three incredible years, I’m leaving the […]
Using a sensitivity reader for my latest writing project
I nightmare natural disasters. Tidal waves filling up my apartment building, floor by floor. Tornadoes suddenly appearing on the road in front […]
Upcoming panel for #AWP18: Crip Lit: Writing Our Truths
I am so excited to let you all know that I got a second panel into the Association of Writers & Writing Programs […]
Earth’s future is uninhabitable
I feel like I’ve just come back from a long trip to the future, and returned, and I’m stricken. I finished reading […]
Giving back to the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House
This year I served as the initial judge/reader in poetry for the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House Literary Prize contest. Thank you, Johnna Schmidt, for […]
The power of writers as activists
The incredible Taylor Lewis reflects on the power of writers as activists, her experiences teaching abroad in France, going to grad school […]
That’s a wrap on AWP 2017
Wow. AWP is over. I am exhausted, and sick (who gave me this cold?!), and heartened by the writing community I’m a […]
Interview in Crack the Spine
I was recently interviewed in Crack the Spine’s Wordsmith series! They asked me how long I’ve been writing, what my greatest challenge […]
2016 reflections
Some 2016 accomplishments I’m proud of: Bottlecap Press published my book On that one-way trip to Mars. More of my disability-themed poetry was […]
What is #OwnYourOwn?
The #OwnYourOwn hashtag has taken off this week. It’s a space on Twitter to encourage and inspire marginalized writers. It’s a call to #OwnYourOwn voice, #OwnYourOwn dreams, #OwnYourOwn […]
The dreaded reading — and how not to suck at it
D.C. science fiction writer Tara Campbell recently wrote an article in the Washington Independent Review of Books encouraging silent writers to go […]
Gotta’ have that grit. Gotta’ have that hustle
If you’re trying to get your art or writing published in literary magazines, you should really read Lincoln Michel’s Ultimate Guide to […]
‘Cemetario General’ in Cacti Fur
My poem “Cemetario General” was published in Cacti Fur. I wrote this poem in Chile, while traveling through that beautiful land of […]
An Approach to Teaching Poetry With Afghan Women Writers
On March 29, in a Saturday morning panel at the 2014 Split This Rock poems of provocation and witness poetry festival, the […]
Learning from the greats: Reaction to Chapter 9 of ‘America’s Best Newspaper Writing’
Chapter 9: The Classics APRIL 15, 2011 To be a reporter, to be a good reporter, one has to have a passion […]
Israeli philosophy professor influenced by childhood, writes about personhood to understand Holocaust
Marlena Chertock APRIL 13, 2011 Yoram Lubling always wanted to write. His undergraduate major was journalism. But after graduating, he never went […]