Short Writing Projects
Collections, stories, essays, journalism, articles, and other communications
Chapbooks
AMONG FRIENDS & LOVERS. Published by Arc Pair Press. 2020
Confessional, poetic, and performative, this collection of hybrid essays blends literary criticism, autobiography, and the imaginative "I" to reflect on the nature of love, language, friendship, and intimacy.
HOW TO SWIM, Published by Another New Calligraphy, 2013—LIMITED EDITION | OUT OF PRINT
A watercolor painting of a purple vase with yellow flowers on a red surface.
Short Stories (Selections)
“Endling.” Another Chicago Magazine. 2 July 2020.
“The Hydra’s Heads.” The SFWP Quarterly. Issue 20/Winter 2020.
“The Great Bear.” The Forge Literary Magazine. 20 January 2020.
“Students of Aristotle and Bards.” Animal. January 2019.
“What the Tarot Said.” Blue Fifth Review: Flash Fiction Special. 8.8. 2018.
“One of the Animals.” Bennington Review. Issue 5. 2018: 262 – 270.
“Persephone at the Edge.” Psychopomp Magazine. Issue 5.3. Spring 2018. (Reprint, originally published in Dark Sky Magazine.)
“Helen’s Return.” Sphynxation, art book by Cristina Nualart. 2016.
“The Vampires.” Tahoma Literary Review. Issue 3. 2015: 109-116.
“Bondage.” Flying House 2012 Anthology. Issue 3. 2012. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2012.)
“Love and Paradise at Superdawg.” PANK. March 2009. Web.
“The Ficus Trees.” 303 Magazine. June 2009. (Awarded Best Fiction, 303 Magazine: Best of 2009)
“Winter in Istanbul, 1996.” Exquisite Corpse. Bureaus. Volume 15. Summer 2008.
Creative Nonfiction / Essays (Selections)
“All the Ways We Exist.” Watershed Review: 10th Anniversary Edition. 46.1. 2023. ( linked to original publication in Issue 39.2, Dec. 2017)
“Armenian Barbeque and an All-Male Birthday Party.” All Her Stories …. 14 November 2018.
“For My Darling Knucklehead: Deciding to Live with a Street Dog.” Dogs Today Magazine. 15 February 2018.
“Birds Flutter and Pterodactyls Are Dead.” Puerto del Sol. 47.1 Summer 2012: 189 – 196.
“Erotics and the Cannibalism of Love and Knowledge: A Dramatic Monologue with Essayistic Tendencies and Authorial Intrusions.” Ekleksographia. Wave Four: Performance Issue. Summer 2011.
“Hecate Leaves Muddy Footprints at the Crossroads: A Response to Mark Lamoureux’s Spectre.” Black Radish Books/Blog. 1 Nov. 2010.
“Reading Rebbecca Brown.” H_NGM_N. Issue 9. Fall 2009.
“Poetry and the Mother Language: A Conversation with Gertrude Stein, Bernadette Mayer, Kathleen Fraser, and a Young Californian.” Moria. 11.4 Spring 2009.
Hybrid Writing
“On Montaigne and 3 Men Named M.” Wicked Alice. March 2015.
“The X-Lover.” DEATH HUMS. Issue 2. May 2013: 31 – 35.
“How to Swim.” Seven Corners. April 2013.
“The Mythologizing of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.” The Collagist. Issue 10. May 2010.
Nature & Conservation Writing
Conservation communications: Articles, blog posts, social media posts, and communication strategies for wildlife and environmental conservation organizations
Journalism (Arts & Culture and Public Policy Selections)
Arts and culture journalist, Civilnet. Yerevan, Armenia. 2016
“A Look Inside Sergey Parajanov Museum”
“A Look Inside Cafesjian Center for the Arts: Marcos Grigorian Exhibition”
“A Look Inside the National Gallery of Armenia: The Bronze Age by Benik Petrosyan”
Contributing writer, Word Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 2013 - 2014
“Vietnamese Literature 101: A. Guide to the Literary Canon”
“The Other Side of Town”
“Top Eats: The Secret Garden”
Daily news education and public policy reporter, Medill Reports Chicago. 2012
“More standardized tests in CPS schools inflames debate”
“CPS Arts Education Plan moves forward for December debut”
“CTU targets business executives as protests over school closures escalate”
“Math quiz: Count the kindergarteners’ tests”
“Bashing CPS teachers won’t fix school problems, parent group says”
“Part-time faculty negotiate over lost classes at Columbia College”
Prose Poems
“Poem for Turkeytown, PA.” After Hours. Winter 2014: 28.
“The Season of Endings, Wrapped in Wool.” Monkeybicycle. August 2010.
“#1,” “#4,” “#7,” “#8,” and “#9” (from Mining the Bones). trnsfr. Winter 2010: 14 – 15.
“The Natural History Museum.” JMWW. Winter 2010.
“Rib Bones” and “Metacarpal.” KeepGoing: Revelation. Issue 37. Fall 2009.
Critical Work
“Foreword: The Cultural Politics of National Art Gallery.” National Art Gallery by Shmavon Azatyan. Purcell Press. 2019.
“Genre, Identity, and Ethnic Representation in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.” Popular Culture Review. Summer 21.2 (2010): 83 – 90.
Book Blurbs
Moss Covered Claws by Jonah Barrett. Blue Cactus Press. 2021.
They Become Her by Rebbecca Brown. What Books Press. 2014.
