Writing

 

essays

The Queen Bee of Downtown Durham, Bitter Southerner

Family Trees, Vela Magazine

Becoming the Ghost, Catapult

What, Rabbit?, Switchback

For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People, Tupelo Quarterly

On Lore and Luck in Krakow, Misadventures Magazine

Your Heart Beats Fast Forever, Sycamore Review

Girlhood, Womanhood, Friendship, and Loss, The Millions

The Woods Behind the Palace Park, The Common

“Festival,” “Millennium,” “Etymology,” Sweet

 

translations
from the Polish, poetry by Anna Piwkowska

“A letter written on Prusów Mountain in August 1995,” Mantis

“Iphigenia’s Morning,” “Toward Passage,” “Uncertain Days,” Lunch Ticket

“Three Paths to the Lake,” “She Lay on a Lawn Chair,” “Red Finches, White Bread,” Gigantic Magazine

“Everyone’s Dead, the Rest Are Gone,” A Public Space

Selected Poems, PEN America

“A letter from Paul Éluard to his wife who is in Cadaqués with Salvador Dali,” The Massachusetts Review

“Blue Sweater,” “Phaedra,” “Wet Roses,” eXchanges

“Untitled,” “St. Petersburg 1998,” “Tyrrhenian Sea 1997,” “Ithaca,” Hayden’s Ferry Review

“Goats,” “Ismene, Sister of Mine,” “Marina,” Inventory

“This Was in Odessa,” The Common

“Tower of Babel,” “Autumn,” “They’ll Bury Us, Bury, Scatter Into Ash,” InTranslation

 

articles

A Weekend Guide to Pinehurst and Southern Pines, Our State Magazine

Creating Fresh, Drinkable Water Powered Only by Ocean Waves, CityLab

The Art of Letterpress Finds a Home in Durham, Our State Magazine

Finding Peace on the Mountaintop, Our State Magazine

In Between a Bike and a Car, CityLab

36 Hours in El Paso, Tex., The New York Times

Palace-Hopping in Poland, The New York Times

INDY Week

Tales of the Cocktail