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PUBLISHED WRITING:

"The Crash of the Hammer: How Concerned Citizens Ran a Neo Nazi Out of Maine." The Atavist. October 30, 2024.

"​The Hard Art of Seeing Your Own Writing Through Rose-Colored Glasses." Lit Hub. July 22, 2024.

"The Three Questions: On Motherhood, Jon J. Muth's “The Three Questions,” and the Value of Learning to Live Moment to Moment" Lit Hub. March 11, 2024
"Mourning Ritual: How We Celebrated Halloween in Maine This Year." Vogue. November 3, 2023

“We’ve Come a Long Way…Maybe?” New York Times Book Review. September 2, 2022.
“Give a Cluck.” Modern Farmer. March, 2022.
“The Uterus and the American Dream: Art-Making and Domestic Labor in Bergman Island” Lit Hub. January 21, 2022.
“On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood” Lit Hub. December 9, 2021.

“Entering Through the Side Door: A Path for Approaching Your Truth in Difficult Material.” Poets Writers Magazine. September/October 2021.

“A Sacred, Unlikely Friendship, Maintained Through Terrifying Times.” Modern Loss. July 13, 2021.
“Familial Entanglements.” New York Times. May 6, 2021.
“How to Live on an Island During a Pandemic.” Vogue. March 11, 2021.
“Martha Lempart and the Polish Women’s March.” Vogue. February 11, 2021.
“The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women Could Vote.” Literary Hub, February 10, 2021.
“The Art and Education of Owling.” New York Times, February 7, 2021.
“Inside the World of High End Apocalypse Gear.” Inside Hook, October 19, 2020.
“How I Found My Inner Prepper Mom.” New York Times, September 24, 2020.
“Could Doomsday Bunkers Become the New Normal?” New York Times, June 26, 2020.
“How Harry Houdini Became the Champion of Mother’s Day.” Literary Hub, May 8, 2020.
“Advice from a Prepper Mom.” GEN Magazine, March 24, 2020.
“How to Stay Married After Child Loss.” New York Times, February 18, 2020.
“Future Healers of Tomorrow: Inside a summer camp for young mediums.” Harper’s Magazine, January 15, 2020.
“Water Witching.” Down East Magazine, November 2019 issue.
“I Talked to my Deceased Brother Through a Spiritualist.” Buzzfeed, October 1, 2019.
“Guide Dogs.” Lenny Letter, May 2018
“Peak Season.” Down East Magazine, December 2017.
“Inside a Camp For Female Mediums.” New York Magazine, THE CUT, November 17, 2017.
“Are You Living With a Ghost?” Lenny Letter, August 8, 2017
“Guards vs. Inmates.” VICE, July 2017.
“Trials in the Hypermedia Age.” VICE, July 2017.
“Day One: The First 24 Hours in Prison.” VICE, June 2017.
“Lost Found: Survive the Savage Sea.” Tin House Magazine, Summer 2017.
“Protest Better.” Lenny Letter, May 31, 2017.
“Cover Story.” Down East Magazine, December 2016.
“Ned and I.” Modern Loss, November 30, 2016
“Poland Coat Hanger Rebellion.” Lenny Letter October 12, 2016.
“Maine Remarkable Women.” Portland Press Herald, September 4, 2016.
“Hard Truth and Deep Trauma Behind Bars.” Lit Hub, March 24, 2016.
“The In-Betweens.” Tin House Magazine, FAITH Issue, Spring 2016.
“Pregnant Women in Prison.” Elle Magazine, November 17, 2015.
“Libraries Navigate Digital Lending.” Poets Writers Magazine, Nov/Dec. 2014.
“A Ukulele Renaissance.” AARP Magazine, Nov/Dec. 2014.
“Jules.” Freerange Nonfiction, April 10, 2014.

“Just a Moment.” Slice Literary Magazine, Fall Issue 2013.
“Is Baby a Luxury?.” Guernica, May 13, 2013.
“The Way Life Should Be: The House of E.B." White Writers’ Houses January, 2013.
“Here We Go On.” The Rumpus, July 2012.
“Un-bearing.” Guernica, March, 2012.
“A Narrow Slice of Things.” The Rumpus, February 22, 2012.
“IMPORTANT NEW EMOTICONS.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, January 6, 2012.
“A Kind of Love.” The Fertile Source, April 12, 2011.
“I Can See for Miles and Miles and . . .” SMITH Magazine, Sept. 14, 2010.
“Migration.” LUMINA Literary Magazine, Volume 9, Spring 2010.
“Adoption.” Cerise Press, July 2010.
“Polar Opposites, All the Same.” Cerise Press, Summer 2010 issue.
“Fall Harvest.” Nerve.com, December 9, 2009.
“Poor Her Soul.” The Sunday Salon, November 8, 2009.
“Harvest.” The Citron Review, September, 2009.
“Bleeker and Mott.” Epiphany Literary Magazine, Spring 2009.
“Canine to Five.” The Morning News, January 24, 2007.
“Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store.” New York Magazine, 2006.
“Oilily.” New York Magazine, 2006.
“Rock Soul.” New York Magazine, 2006.
“Working for the Living.” Anderbo.com, 2005.
“Choose Whose Words You Use.” CommonDreams.org, January 21, 2005.
“Who’s Your Daddy?” CommonDreams.org, December 17, 2004.

 

 

INTERVIEWS: 


“Katherine Boo, National Book Award Winner Nonfiction 2012.” National Book Foundation, 2012.

“Domingo Martinez, National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction 2012. National Book Foundation, 2012.

“Anne Applebaum, National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction 2012.” National Book Foundation, 2012.

“Being Yourself: Freerange’s Mira Ptacin talks with Baratunde Thurston.” Freerange Nonfiction, December 2012.

“Veganomics: A Coversation about Creation & Consumption with comedian Myq Kaplan.” Freerange Nonfiction, July 2011.

“Mexican High: 5 Questions for author Liza Monroy.” Freerange Nonfiction, January 2011.

“Dissecting the Messiness: 5 Questions for Sander Hicks, author, activist & founder of Soft Skull Press.” Freerange Nonfiction, January 2011.

“Missives from the Other Side of Silence: 5 Questions for author Kim Kupperman.” Freerange Nonfiction, December 2010.

“Embedded: A New Tool for Converting ‘Patriots’ into Progressives: Interview with Tim Robbins.” TruthOut.org, June 10, 2005.

“Revelations from an Insider: Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the Bush Administration, Civil Disobedience, and the Eternal Fires of Hell.” CommonDreams.org, March 29, 2005.

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