LITERARY & JOURNALISM

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• 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 & the Polish Women's March Vogue. February 11, 2021

• The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women Could Vote Lit 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 Losing a Baby New York Times, Feb 18, 2020

• Future Healers of Tomorrow Harper's January 2020

• Water Witching Down East Magazine November 2019

• Excerpt from The In-Betweens Buzzfeed October, 2019

• Guide Dogs Lenny Letter May 15, 2018

• Peak Season Down East Magazine December, 2017

• Inside a Camp for Female Mediums 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

• Dougal Robertson's 'Survive the Savage Sea' Tin House Summer 2017

• How to Protest Better Lenny Letter May 31, 2017

• Ned and I Modern Loss November 30, 2016

• Poland's Coat Hanger Rebellion Lenny Letter October 12, 2016

• Maine's 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 in Prison Elle Magazine November 17, 2015

• Libraries Navigate Digital Lending Poets & Writers  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  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

• Fall Harvest Nerve.com Dec. 9, 2009

• Poor Her Soul The Sunday Salon Nov. 8, 2009

• Harvest The Citron Review Sept. 2009

• Bleeker and Mott Epiphany Literary Magazine Spring 2009

• Canine to Five The Morning News Jan. 24, 2007

• Working for the Living Anderbo.com 2005

• Choose Whose Words You Use CommonDreams.org Jan. 21, 2005

• Who’s Your Daddy? CommonDreams.org Dec. 17, 2004

ANTHOLOGIES

 

• Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York (Seal Press 2013)

• THE MOMENT: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial 2013)

• 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

 

• Writer, with Kids: Cari Luna interviews Mira Ptacin (June 2014)

• 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)

REVIEWS

 

• Saints for All Occasions Portland Press Herald (May 7, 2017)

• Polar Opposites, All the Same Cerise Press (Summer 2010 issue)

• Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store New York Magazine (2006)

• Oilily New York Magazine (2006)

• Rock & Soul New York Magazine (2006)