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"When the Blood Mobile Passed by" published in No Contact
was listed on Memoir Monday on November 1, 2021
Clearing Off a 2020 Bookshelf: A List Story

The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion
When the Emperor Was Divine / Julie Otsuka
The Resisters / Gish Jen
Weather / Jenny Offill
A Burning / Megha Majumdar
Little Fires Everywhere / Celeste Ng
Corona / Bushra Rehman
Everything Inside / Edwidge Dandicat
Leave the World Behind / Rumaan Alam
Real Life / Brandon Taylor
Black and Blue / Anna Quindlen
We the Animals / Justin Torres
March / John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
A Children's Bible / Lydia Millet
The Gone Dead / Chanelle Benz
Eloquent Rage / Brittney Cooper
The Great Believers / Rebecca Makkai
Election / Tom Perrotta
Going Postal / Terry Pratchett
On Immunity: An Inoculation / Eula Biss
Mercy / Lucille Clifton
Just Mercy / Bryan Stevenson
Someday / David Levithan

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"I Went to the Creek" (poem). "Ad Libitium" in Annals of Internal Medicine. February 2021.

Of it, the poetry editor said: "It is simply exquisite, fantastic, beautiful."
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"Shared Scars" (poem). WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. Spring/Summer 2020.
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"Not a Game" (poem). Harmony at ASU. 2020
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"Starting Pitches." The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

"A pitch pipe is used to blow each half step on a Western scale. It is a moment when the audience sees into the rehearsal--hears what is necessary to arrive at the music. It is sound that sets into motion the rest of the song."

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“Built for Two” (poem). Feminist Studies 45:1. Spring 2019.



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Maze Rat: On Joyce Carol Oates's Hazard's of Time Travel. Women's Review of Books. November/December 2018.

"With the general world-ending tone of our contemporary moment, dystopian and
post-apocalyptic novels are thriving. . . . Joyce Carol Oates, with a prolificacy that enables her to be ever-timely, has joined the fray, exploring our power to analyze and resist the world around us in her latest novel, Hazards of Time Travel."
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On Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach. Pleiades Book Review 15.2, Summer 2018.

"Jennifer Egan's writing continues to reach depths that reveal worlds to us both familiar and new through her dexterous attention to the story and the words."

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“Lessons Learned” (poem). Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 39.2. Special Issue. “Mapping Gendered Violence,” guest editor Anastasia Christou. June 2018.


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“Disorientation in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine: The Imprisoned Spaces of Japanese Americans during World War II.” Race and Displacement. Houston Baker Jr. Foreword and Trudier Harris Afterword. University of Alabama Press. 143-161.

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