essays & criticism

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Essays // Fiction // Translation

Letters on Ashon Crawley’s “The Lonely Letters,” Full Stop [friendship, race, vulnerability, failure]

The Acknowledgments Are My Favorite Part of a Book, Electric Literature [acknowledgments page, paratext, books]

Tip of the Tongue, Entropy [dementia, grief, composure while caregiving, forgetting]

In Search of the Miraculous, Kaleidoscoped [google searches, a separation, Bas Jan Ader, mirrors]

A Book is Not a Baby, LitHub [inadequate metaphors, motherhood, writing]

The Art of Stillness, Guernica [figure modeling, cancer screenings, images of the body] *Notable essay in Best American Essays 2021*

The Hunter and the Hunted, Catapult [being stalked, running, obsessive attraction]

Savage Skin, Palimpsest [childhood best friends, top surgery, mastectomies]

Petrushka (translation from Spanish of Pepa Merlo), Alchemy [watching, time passing, intimacy with strangers]

The Art of Attention, Electric Literature [teaching poetry, Odyssey Works, close attention]

Every Bed I've Ever Slept InCosmonauts Avenue [lovers, prophecy, grief]

The ‘Now More Than Ever' EpidemicTheo Westenberger Estate [overused phrases, political moments]

Matryoshka: On (Be)coming and (Be)longingTheo Westenberger Estate [family clothing, femininity, growing up]

To Read the Day After the Election, Works & Conversations [empathy, artmaking, politics]

Wind and Smoke: On documentation in contemporary art, Emergent Art Space [indexicality, traces, documentation]

Book Reviews

Seven Books About Authorship Hoaxes, Electric Literature
Conduits to a Feeling: On Sophia Giovannitti’s Working Girl, Los Angeles Review of Books
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey, BOMB
Tamar Adler on Reviving Food From a Bygone Era, Los Angeles Review of Books
Virtual Roundtable on “Future Sex," Public Books
The Artist as Culture ProducerGlasstire
The Art of the Affair: Artists and Six Degrees of Separation, Glasstire

Interviews & Profiles

Maggie Millner: Inventing the Form of Yourself, The Rumpus
Emily Barker: On Disability, Artmaking, and Healthcare, BOMB
Lars Horn: Bodies of Water, Bookforum
Cyrus Grace Dunham: On Turning the Body Into a Home, Electric Literature
Chelsea Hodson: On Expanding and DissolvingThe Adroit Journal
Nina Katchadourian: On Humor and BeautyGlasstire
SPACE on Ryder Farm: Where Artists Go to GrowedibleManhattan
Is Alex Morrison Austin's Boldest Museum Educator?, Glasstire

Art Criticism

Humus: Earthworks and Surrender, SFMOMA’s Open Space
Ai Weiwei, Austin, and Instagrammable ArtGlasstire
Is Alex Morrison Austin's Boldest Museum Educator?, Glasstire
The Unnameable: Send Me SFMOMAGlasstire
Bing WrightGlasstire
Laura Lit at Women and Their WorkGlasstire 
Lucas Simões at Lora Reynolds GalleryGlasstire
Disappearing Photographs: John Steck Jr. at Blue Star Contemporary, Glasstire
Carnage of the Body: Erin Neve and Sara Sudhoff at grayDUCKGlasstire
Prickly Heat: Liz Rodda's LatestGlasstire
The Power of Refusal: Kevin McNamee-Tweed's Departure from AustinGlasstire
Spiderwebs in Chelsea, Tomás Saraceno, Eyes Towards the Dove
Three Chelsea Picks: Shotz, Bartley and Kurland, Eyes Towards the Dove
Dream of the Red Chamber, New York, Eyes Towards the Dove
Sophie Calle: Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, Eyes Towards the Dove
A Sense of Place, Pier 24, San Francisco, Eyes Towards the Dove

Catalogue Essays

Double Exposure (forthcoming from Saint Lucy Books, 2024)
No Wend (Gregory Rollins, 2021)