PUBLISHED WORK — Mira Ptacin

Published Writing:

Lit Hub

My Child Doesn't Love to Read and I'm (Starting To Be) Okay With That
October 6, 2025
Marie Claire

She Was Fired for Defying Trump—But She's Coming Back Swinging
July 30, 2025
Longreads

Eight Limes, No More: The Accidental Poetry of Found Lists
July 15, 2025
The Guardian

The prison classroom was where she could finally be herself. Now it’s gone
May 10, 2025
Harper's Bazaar

The Woods Are Not Neutral: When a neo-Nazi Moves to Town
April 11, 2025
The Atavist

The Crash of the Hammer
October 30, 2024
Lit Hub

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

The Three Questions: On Motherhood, Jon J. Muth's “The Three Questions,” and the Value of Learning to Live Moment to Moment
March 11, 2024
Vogue

Mourning Ritual: How We Celebrated Halloween in Maine This Year
November 3, 2023
New York Times Book Review

We’ve Come a Long Way…Maybe
September 2, 2022
Modern Farmer

Give a Cluck
March, 2022
Lit Hub

The Uterus and the American Dream: Art-Making and Domestic Labor in Bergman Island
January 21, 2022
Lit Hub

On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood
December 9, 2021
Poets Writers Magazine

Entering Through the Side Door: A Path for Approaching Your Truth in Difficult Material
September/October 2021
Modern Loss

A Sacred, Unlikely Friendship, Maintained Through Terrifying Times
July 13, 2021
New York Times

“Familial Entanglements
May 6, 2021
Vogue

How to Live on an Island During a Pandemic
March 11, 2021
Vogue

Martha Lempart and the Polish Women’s March
February 11, 2021
Literary Hub

The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women Could Vote
February 10, 2021
New York Times

The Art and Education of Owling
February 7, 2021
Inside Hook

Inside the World of High End Apocalypse Gear
October 19, 2021
New York Times

How I Found My Inner Prepper Mom
September 24, 2020
New York Times

Could Doomsday Bunkers Become the New Normal?
June 26, 2020
Literary Hub

How Harry Houdini Became the Champion of Mother’s Day
May 8, 2020
GEN Magazine

Advice from a Prepper Mom
March 24, 2020
New York Times

How to Stay Married After Child Loss
February 18, 2020
Harper's Magazine

Future Healers of Tomorrow: Inside a summer camp for young mediums
January 15, 2020
Down East Magazine

Water Witching
November 2019 issue
Buzzfeed

I Talked to my Deceased Brother Through a Spiritualist
October 1, 2019
Lenny Letter

Guide Dogs
May 2018
Down East Magazine

Peak Season
December 2017
New York Magazine

Inside a Camp For Female Mediums
November 17, 2017
Lenny Letter

Are You Living With a Ghost?
August 8, 2017
VICE

Guards vs. Inmates
July 2017
VICE

Trials in the Hypermedia Age
July 2017
VICE

Day One: The First 24 Hours in Prison
June 2017
Tin House Magazine

Lost Found: Survive the Savage Sea
Summer 2017
Lenny Letter

Protest Better
May 31, 2017
Down East Magazine

Cover Story
December 2016
Modern Loss

Ned and I
November 30, 2016
Lenny Letter

Poland Coat Hanger Rebellion
October 12, 201
Portland Press Herald

Maine Remarkable Women
September 4, 2016
Lit Hub

Hard Truth and Deep Trauma Behind Bars
March 24, 2016
Tin House Magazine

The In-Betweens
Spring 2016
Elle Magazine

Pregnant Women in Prison
November 17, 2015
Poets Writers Magazine

Libraries Navigate Digital Lending
Nov/Dec. 2014
AARP Magazine

A Ukulele Renaissance
Nov/Dec. 2014
Freerange Nonfiction

Jules
April 10, 2014
Slice Literary Magazine

Just a Moment
Fall Issue 2013
Guernica

Is a Baby a Luxury?
May 13, 2013
White Writers’ Houses

The Way Life Should Be: The House of E.B
January, 2013
The Rumpus

Here We Go On
July 2012
Guernica

Un-bearing
March, 2012
The Rumpus

A Narrow Slice of Things
February 22, 2012
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

IMPORTANT NEW EMOTICONS
January 6, 2012
The Fertile Source

A Kind of Love.
April 12, 2011
SMITH Magazine

I Can See for Miles and Miles and . . .
September 14, 2010
LUMINA Literary Magazine

Migration
Spring 2010
Cerise Press

Adoption
July 2010
Cerise Press

Polar Opposites, All the Same
Summer 2010 issue
Nerve.com

Fall Harvest
December 9, 2009.
The Sunday Salon

Poor Her Soul
November 8, 2009
The Citron Review

Harvest
September, 2009
Epiphany Literary Magazine

Bleeker and Mott
Spring 2009
The Morning News

Canine to Five
January 24, 2007
New York Magazine

Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store
2006
New York Magazine

Oilily
2006
New York Magazine

Rock Soul
2006
Anderbo.com

Working for the Living
2005
CommonDreams.org

Choose Whose Words You Use
January 21, 2005
CommonDreams.org

Who’s Your Daddy?
December 17, 2004

Interviews:

National Book Foundation

Katherine Boo, National Book Award Winner Nonfiction 2012
2012
National Book Foundation

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

Anne Applebaum, National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction 2012
2012
Freerange Nonfiction

Being Yourself: Freerange’s Mira Ptacin talks with Baratunde Thurston
December 2012
Freerange Nonfiction

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

Mexican High: 5 Questions for author Liza Monroy
January 2011
Freerange Nonfiction

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

Missives from the Other Side of Silence: 5 Questions for author Kim Kupperman
December 2010
TruthOut.org

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

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