MIRA PTACIN
AUTHOR

LITERARY & JOURNALISM
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Give a Cluck: On Keeping Chickens Modern Farmer Hub. March, 2022.
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“The Uterus and the American Dream.” Art-Making and Domestic Labor in Bergman Island Lit Hub. January 21, 2022.
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On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood Lit Hub. December 9, 2021.
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Entering Through the Side Door: A Path for Approaching Your Truth in Difficult Material Poets & Writers Magazine. September/October 2021.
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A Sacred, Unlikely Friendship, Maintained Through Terrifying Times Modern Loss. July 13, 2021.
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How to Live on an Island During a Pandemic Vogue. March 11, 2021
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Martha Lempart & the Polish Women's March Vogue. February 11, 2021
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The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women Could Vote Lit Hub, February 10, 2021
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The Art and Education of Owling New York Times, February 7, 2021
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Inside the World of High End Apocalypse Gear Inside Hook, October 19, 2020
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How I Found My Inner Prepper Mom New York Times, September 24, 2020
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Could Doomsday Bunkers Become the New Normal? New York Times,
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How Harry Houdini Became the Champion of Mother's Day
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Advice From a Prepper Mom GEN Magazine, March 24, 2020
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How To Stay Married After Losing a Baby New York Times, Feb 18, 2020
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Future Healers of Tomorrow Harper's January 2020
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Water Witching Down East Magazine November 2019
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Excerpt from The In-Betweens Buzzfeed October, 2019
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Guide Dogs Lenny Letter May 15, 2018
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Peak Season Down East Magazine December, 2017
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Are You Living With a Ghost? Lenny Letter August 8, 2017
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Guards vs. Inmates VICE July 2017
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Trials in the Hypermedia Age VICE July 2017
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Dougal Robertson's 'Survive the Savage Sea' Tin House Summer 2017
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How to Protest Better Lenny Letter May 31, 2017
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Ned and I Modern Loss November 30, 2016
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Poland's Coat Hanger Rebellion Lenny Letter October 12, 2016
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Maine's Remarkable Women Portland Press Herald September 4, 2016
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Hard Truth and Deep Trauma Behind Bars Lit Hub March 24, 2016
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The In-Betweens Tin House Magazine, FAITH Issue, Spring 2016
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Pregnant in Prison Elle Magazine November 17, 2015
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Libraries Navigate Digital Lending Poets & Writers Nov/Dec. 2014
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A Ukulele Renaissance AARP Magazine Nov/Dec. 2014
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Jules Freerange Nonfiction April 10, 2014
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Just a Moment Slice Literary Magazine Fall Issue 2013
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Is Baby a Luxury? Guernica May 13, 2013
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The Way Life Should Be: The House of E.B. White Writers’ Houses January, 2013
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Here We Go On The Rumpus July 2012
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Un-bearing Guernica March, 2012
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A Narrow Slice of Things The Rumpus February 22, 2012
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IMPORTANT NEW EMOTICONS McSweeney’s January 6, 2012
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A Kind of Love The Fertile Source April 12, 2011
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I Can See for Miles and Miles and . . . SMITH Magazine Sept. 14, 2010
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Migration LUMINA Literary Magazine Volume 9, Spring 2010
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Adoption Cerise Press July 2010
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Fall Harvest Nerve.com Dec. 9, 2009
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Poor Her Soul The Sunday Salon Nov. 8, 2009
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Harvest The Citron Review Sept. 2009
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Bleeker and Mott Epiphany Literary Magazine Spring 2009
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Canine to Five The Morning News Jan. 24, 2007
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Working for the Living Anderbo.com 2005
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Choose Whose Words You Use CommonDreams.org Jan. 21, 2005
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Who’s Your Daddy? CommonDreams.org Dec. 17, 2004
ANTHOLOGIES
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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York (Seal Press 2013)
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THE MOMENT: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial 2013)
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Get Out of My Crotch: Twenty-One Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (Cherry Bomb Books 2013)
INTERVIEWS
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Writer, with Kids: Cari Luna interviews Mira Ptacin (June 2014)
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Katherine Boo, National Book Award Winner Nonfiction 2012 National Book Foundation (2012)
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Domingo Martinez, National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction 2012, National Book Foundation (2012)
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Anne Applebaum, National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction 2012, National Book Foundation (2012)
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Being Yourself: Freerange’s Mira Ptacin talks with Baratunde Thurston Freerange Nonfiction (December 2012)
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Veganomics: A Coversation about Creation & Consumption with comedian Myq Kaplan Freerange Nonfiction (July 2011)
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Mexican High: 5 Questions for author Liza Monroy Freerange Nonfiction (January 2011)
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Dissecting the Messiness: 5 Questions for Sander Hicks, author, activist & founder of Soft Skull Press Freerange Nonfiction (January 2011)
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Missives from the Other Side of Silence: 5 Questions for author Kim Kupperman Freerange Nonfiction (December 2010)
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Embedded: A New Tool for Converting ‘Patriots’ into Progressives: Interview with Tim Robbins, TruthOut.org (June 10, 2005)
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Revelations from an Insider: Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the Bush Administration, Civil Disobedience, and the Eternal Fires of Hell, CommonDreams.org (March 29, 2005)
REVIEWS
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Saints for All Occasions Portland Press Herald (May 7, 2017)
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Polar Opposites, All the Same Cerise Press (Summer 2010 issue)
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Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store New York Magazine (2006)
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Oilily New York Magazine (2006)
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Rock & Soul New York Magazine (2006)