Faculty News

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April 2020

March 2020

  • Library Journal gave a starred review to Chelsea Bieker's forthcoming novel Godshot, saying protagonist "Lacey May's is an irresistible voice, part gullible believer, part whip-smart independent spirit who surprises at every turn."

  • Rolling Stone published Melissa Petro's op-ed "Michael Bloomberg Wants to Silence Those Who Discuss Their Past — Including Me." 

  • NYQ Books will publish Michael Montlack's poetry collection Daddy in April. 

  • Carment Bugan has been shortlisted for the International Beverly Prize for Literature for her memoir Life Without a Country.

  • "Surrender," an essay by Nina Boutsikaris, is a Sunday Short Read selected by Creative Nonfiction. 

  • The New York Times published Rachel Simon's essay "My Mom, My Dad and Amazon's Alexa" in its Ties column. 

  • Laura Yeager's essay "Leaving New York" appears in WOW! Women on Writing, as part of its Friday Speak Out series.

  • DC Comics has released Matthew Cody's graphic middle-grade novel Zantanna and the House of Secrets. 

  • Robert Repino talked about the Democratic Presidential primaries on the podcast The Devil Advocates. 

  • The Newslette interviewed Amina Akhtar as one of the "women we admire" for its article "We Found Love: How to Make the First Move in Career, Romance, Friendships." 

  • Lara Ewen looks at what's behind (and ahead for) NYC's many vacant storefronts in her aricle "How Chain Stores Are Rightsizing New York City Retail" for Retail Dive.  

  • Kirkus reviewed Lev A.C. Rosen's forthcoming middle-grade novel Camp, saying "This novel has the appeal of a rom-com movie-makeover but with more substantive explorations of self-betrayal, self-evaluation, and eventual awakening."

  • Print Club Ltd. published Anni Irish's article "Four Shows To See In New York City This Winter." 

  • Alanna Schubach's short-story "Next Door" appears in the current issue of Juked, a literary magazine. 

  • Seth Fried won the Missouri Review Editors' Prize for his short story "Trezzo."

  • "When my father was taken to prison for his public protest against Ceausescu in 1983, I wrote poems to his pictures...He 'came back' in my descriptions, and I articulated a sense of grief and loss for my mother and sister, too. This is how I knew that there was something special about writing." Carmen Bugan talks more about the transcendant power of writing in an interview with Pulp. 

February 2020

  • Columbia Journal published Kate Angus' poems "Tell Me About Last Night" and "Thirteen Years and This Is What You Are to Me Now." 

  • The Millions' list of Most Anticipated Books for the first half of 2020 includes two novels by Gotham instructors: God Shot by Chelsea Bieker, forthcoming in April, and You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat, forthcoming in June. 

  • Michael Montlack's poem "A Friend of Farrah" appears in the Ocean State Review. 

  • Elemental magazine published Melissa Petro's article "Short-Term Abandonment of Your Loved Ones May Help Your Mental Health." 

  • "Servant of the People hits close to the bone at times, but offers a ray of hope too, packaged in smooth production, tight writing, fine performances, and laugh-out-loud sequences," writes Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, of the Ukranian TV show that starred that nation's current president Volodymyr Zelensky, for the BBC. 

  • Kody Keplinger talked about Dungeons & Dragons and body positivity on the podcast Dyking Out with Carolyn Bergier. 

  • Carmen Bugan and her memoir Life Without a Country have been longlisted for the International Beverly Prize for Literature. 

  • Publishers Weekly interviews Robert Repino about his forthcoming middle-grade novel Spark and the League of Ursus, and how he was inspired by his favorite childhood movies in the podcast PW KidsCast. 

  • Laura Yeager is blogging for Cure Today. Her most recent post is "The Gift of the Paper Fan."

  • When Lev Rosen got the idea for his forthcoming novel, he wanted to write "a contemporary queer YA version of a 1960s Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedy." He explains how that idea evolved into Camp, (releasing in May), in this interview with GeeksOUT.

  • Dave Hanson's play The Tenants has been accepted and will be staged at the New York Theater Festival's Winterfest. 

  • Gay Mag published Matt Jones' essay "Poses for the Beginning Figure Model." 

  • Jessica Sticklor's YA fantasy novel Into the Fairy Forest (published under her author's name J.M. Stephen) was released on December 3rd by D.X. Varos . 

  • Anni Irish's article " 'Cruising Utopia' Ten Years Later: Revisiting Queer Scholar José Esteban Muñoz's Most Influential Work" appears in NewNowNext. 

January 2020

  • Book Riot recommends Amina Akhtar's novel Fashion Victim on its list of Mystery Book Recommendations Based on Films and TV Shows. 

  • Jon Gingerich's short story "Thornhope, Indiana" won the Saturday Evening Post's 2019 Great American Fiction Prize.

  • Sarah McColl wants you to "Stop Trying to Fight Your Chaos and Just Make Something." She's got suggestions for you on how, over at Forge magazine. 

  • Cullen Thomas visits Eastern State Penitentiary, America's most historic prison, with writer Samuel Barlow, who served time there, in his Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons series in The Rumpus.

  • Entropy magazine's list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 includes two by Gotham instructors: I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry by Nina Boutsikaris and Joy Enough by Sarah McColl. 

  • Bedazzled Ink Publishing has released Jessica Sticklor's novel The Beekeeper's Daughter (under her author's name Jessica Stilling). 

  • Electric Literature named Chelsea Bieker's forthcoming novel God Shot to its list of Most Anticipated Debuts of Early 2020. 

  • Lara Ewen looks at the ripple effects of the Walmart Disarmament in her article "What's Gained and Lost When Retailers Drop Firearms Sales," for Retail Dive. 

  • Anni Irish interviewed one of the doctors working to keep women alive in during and after labor and childbirth, in her article “In The Global Effort To Prevent Maternal Deaths, Doctors Without Borders Is LeadingThe Way,” for Elite Daily.

  • Liveright Publishing will release Sarah McColl's memoir Joy Enough in paperback on January 14th. 

  • Finally, an N&M Special, a sketch comedy show co-written by and co-starring Jim Mendrinos, is available now on Amazon Prime. 

  • "What I’ve learned for decades about communicating is that the most important part is trying to understand what’s going on in the other person’s mind in what they feel or think. If you don’t have some understanding, there’s no hope your point of view can ever get across," says actor Alan Alda in his interview with Mara Reinstein for Parade magazine.  

  • Longreads published Blaise Kearsley's essay "Why Mr. Bauer Didn't Like Me." 

  • Business Insider published Melissa Petro's essay "I Didn't Take Maternity Leave as a Self-Employed Worker, and I Regret It." 

  • Anni Irish wrote "Challenging Gender and Racial Stereotypes in the Legal Profession" for Fordham Law News. 

December 2019

  • Lara Ewen wrote the 2019 Holiday Gift Guide for Librarians and Book Lovers for American Libraries magazine. 

  • Lake Union Publishing announced it will publish Amy Sue Nathan's novel Well Behaved Wives, set in 1962 at a finishing school for homemakers. 

  • Bustle named Chelsea Bieker's forthcoming novel Godshot to its list of The 20 Must-Read Books of 2020, calling it the one "most likely to get you triple-digit likes on Instagram." 

  • Edward Einhorn directed the feature film The Last Cyclist, which will debut at the 2020 Boulder Film Festival. 

  • The picture book A Day for Skating, illustrated by Madeline Valentine, is out now from Candlewick Press. 

  • Set Designer Ethan Tobman needed to re-create high-security, off-limits federal spaces for the film The Report. Mara Reinstein interviews him on how he did it, for Architectural Digest. 

  • Kirkus reviewed Matthew Cody's forthcoming middle-grade graphic novel Zatanna and the House of Secrets, calling it "a page-turning emotional mystery." 

  • Inlandia: A Literary Journal published Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's essay "Dusk Therapy." 

  • Anni Irish interviewed WNBA star and guard for the Washington Mystics Natasha Cloud about her gun-reform activism and work for Everytown for Gun Safety in her article "Meet the Professional Athlete Who Is Standing Up to Gun Violence," for Bustle.

  • Tal McThenia's article "The Curious Case of Monte Carlo's Suspect 'Suicide Epidemic' " is up now at Atlas Obscura.

  • The Cortland Review published Michael Montlack's poem "Ghent Farm House (c. 1790),"  

  • Quirk Books will release Robert Repino's middle-grade novel Spark and the League of Ursus in April 2020. 

  • Amazon Prime is now airing Jacob, a documentary about Jacob Appel, (and featuring an interview with Gotham President Alex Steele). 

  • "When our 16-month-old stopped sleeping through the night, my marriage became a battleground." Melissa Petro writes about using emotional granularity to navigate and survive crisis, for Elemental. 

November 2019

  • Melissa Petro's essay "The Rescue Rooster Next Door" is up now at Tenderly.

  • Carmen Bugan's "New Life" is the poem of the week at the Poetry Centre at Oxford University-Brookes. 

  • Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's essay "A Lot of Old Sitcoms Don't Hold Up. The Mary Tyler Moore Show Does" is up at Buzzfeed.

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing selected Matt Jones' essay "No Heart, No Moon" for its 2019 edition. 

  • Ashley Shelby's short story "The Ingenious Futility of Warblers" is featured in Audobon magazine's first-ever fiction issue. 

  • "Pressuring people to stay home, or invest in costly, lengthy journeys by rail or sea, is not how we ought to tackle the crisis of our warming planet," writes Alanna Schubach in her op-ed "Enough With the Flight Shaming Already!" for the Nation.

  • Catapault Books announced it will publish Shahnaz Habib's nonfiction travel book Airplane Mode in 2021. 

  • Joselin Linder and her memoir The Family Gene will be featured on CNN's Something's Killing Me in its November 3rd episode. 

  • Broadway World interviewed Edward Einhorn about Performance for One, the show written and directed by Edward where an actor performs for one audience member at a time, now running in Manhattan. 

  • Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's essay "Images of My Mother" appears in the current issue of the literary journal Belle Ombre.

  • Lion's Roar published Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's essay "How Mr. Rogers Taught Us to Love." 

  • Jody Gray is the co-creator, co-writer, co-lyricist, and composer for the animated children's series Fairy Tale Forest, now in production by M.Y.R.A Entertainment. 

  • Nina Boutsikaris' memoir I'm Trying To Tell You I'm Sorry is a small-press bestseller for the second quarter in a row. 

  • "To publish short nonfiction...you need only follow a few basic steps – and they’re the same steps whether you’re a seasoned professional or a total newbie," writes Melissa Petro in her article "Four Steps to Getting Published More," for The Writer magazine. 

  • Jacob Appel won the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Faulkner-Wisdom Award for best individual poem, for "Plea to Our Future Worst Selves on a Cold Winter Night." 

October 2019

  • Picador USA has released Tatjana Soli's novel The Removes in paperback. 

  • "There's nothing wrong with dreaming...but [my] approach really failed to do, what it prevented me from doing, was failing faster and better," writes Benjamin Buchholz in his latest Path to Professionalizing column for The Writer magazine. 

  • Sacred Fools, a theatre company in Los Angeles, is staging a production of Dave Hanson's play Waiting for Waiting for Godot, opening November 8th.  

  • Literary Hub published Kate Angus' essay "Maybe the Secret to Writing Is Not Writing?" 

  • Emily Rapp Black reviewed the new memoir Homesick by Jennifer Croft for the New York Times. 

  • The Kitchn published Melissa Petro's article "Meal Planning Saved My Marriage." 

  • The Academy of American Poets named Shamar Hill its new Director of Institutional Giving and Stewardship. 

  • "Some will rave that this movie is a daring reinvention of the superhero genre [but] the frightening bottom line [is] this film is a relentlessly savage cesspool, desperate for us to reflect on the violence in our culture, perhaps not realizing that it is the latest contributor." Mara Reinstein reviews Joker for Us Weekly.

  • Knopf announced that it will publish two new picture books written and illustrated by Madeline Valentine, the first one to be More Than Fluff, about personal space from the point of view of a fuzzy baby chick.

  • BookRiot's list of "20 Must-Read Books Set Off the Beaten Path" includes Ashley Shelby's novel South Pole Station.  

  • Lev A.C. Rosen's young adult novel Camp, a romantic comedy set at a LGBTQIA summer camp, comes out in May 2020 from Little, Brown Children's. 

  • Kirkus reviewed Scott Alexander Hess' new novel River Runs Red, calling it a "lyrical, gritty read." 

  • Selected Shorts, the literary podcast and reading series, featured Seth Fried's short story "Sea Monster," in its Under The Surface episode.  

  • Melissa Petro's article "The Write-At-Home Mom" appears in The Writer magazine. 

  • Gail's New Boyfriend, a feature film written and directed by Jim Mendrinos, is an official selection of the Dumbo International Film Festival. 

  • Carmen Bugan talks about poetry and the language of freedom on The RC Podcast, produced by the University of Michigan. 

  • N. West Moss' short story "Au Pair" appears in the Saturday Evening Post. 

  • Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviewed mystery author Gary Phillips about comics, crime, and conspiracies for Shotgun Honey magazine. 

September 2019

  • Carmen Bugan's poetry collection Lillies from America comes out September 20th from Shearsman Books. 

  • The Writer magazine published Susan Breen's article "Choosing the Right Form for Your Story." 

  • Real Simple published Melissa Petro's article "How to Feel at Home in a New Neighborhood." 

  • "When the means to create art is bestowed on a select few, it will also be enjoyed by a select few," writes Alanna Schubach in her op-ed "Bernie Sanders Could Be the Best Arts President in US History." 

  • Tal McThenia's article "The Quest to Find a Lost Arctic Explorer's Buried Soup" is up now at Atlas Obscura. 

  • The literary magazine The Blotter published N. West Moss' essay "The Cliffs of 3a.m." 

  • Crooked Lane Books released Carole Bugge's mystery novel Pride, Prejudice and Poison: A Jane Austen Society Mystery (written under her pen name Elizabeth Blake) on August 13th. 

  • Ahead of the Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot launching on Fox, Mara Reinstein ranked "The 90 Most Important Moments" of the original, for The Ringer. 

  • St. Louis Magazine recommended Scott Alexander Hess' new novel River Runs Red in its Read This Now column. 

  • The Bergen International Film Festival selected and screened Gail's New Boyfriend, a feature film written and directed by Jim Mendrinos. 

  • "If a blind character I play [has] magic, that's fine, but it needs not to make it so they can see. If I'm going to play a blind character, that's a part of their life." Kody Keplinger talked disability, creativity, and fancy dice on Dragon Talk, the official podcast of Dungeons and Dragons. 

  • The Odd Magazine published Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's flash fiction story "Noise." 

August 2019

  • Pride, Prejudice, and Poison: A Jane Austen Mystery, Carole Bugge's latest mystery novel (written under her pen name Elizabeth Blake), comes out August 13th from Crooked Lane Books. 

  • Michael Montlack's poems "Is Richard Simmons Missing? Or Is He Just Dearly Missed?" and "The Court Jester" have been published by Tupelo Quarterly. 

  • DC Kids, an imprint of DC Comics that publishes work for middle-grade readers, announced it will publish Matthew Cody's graphic novel Zatanna and The House of Secrets in February.

  • "Moon" by Carmen Bugan is a Poem of the Week in the Irish Times.

  • Nina Boutsikaris' memoir I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry is a small-press bestseller for second-quarter 2019. 

  • Mara Reinstein's article "Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers Look Back on Hart to Hart 40 Years Later" is a cover story this month for TV Guide. 

  • Litbreak published an excerpt of Masha Hamilton's novel in progress Iris Rising. 

  • The Riverfront Times reviewed Scott Alexander Hess' new novel The River Runs Red, calling it a "captivating novel" that "masterfully captures the cultural through-lines that have defined [St. Louis] since its inception." 

  • Divya Sood's short story "Fear" is one of 10 selected for the 2019 Masters Review Anthology. 

  • Pacific Standard magazine published Melissa Petro's essay "My Husband Paid Me to Be a Stay-At-Home Mom." 

  • Bedazzled Ink Publishing announced it will publish Jessica Sticklor's novel The Beekeeper's Daughter (under her author's name Jessica Stilling) in September. 

  • The Van Alen Institute, a design and architecture nonprofit that promotes better use of public space, chose Seth Fried's novel The Municipalists as its Book Club pick for July. 

  • Author and essayist Eric LeMay interviewed Nina Boutsikaris about her memoir I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry on the New Books Network. 

  • Lara Ewen's article "Rock Bottom: Tracing the Decline of Diamond Retail" is in Retail Dive. 

  • Gabrielle Bellot wrote about the graphic novel On A Sunbeam—"the moody, women-centered, graphic novel space opera we need right now'—for Literary Hub.

  • Barbara Demarco-Barrett's short story "Noise" appears in The Odd Magazine.

July 2019

  • En Route, a short film directed and co-written by Pamela Harris, is an official selection of the SoHo International Film Festival. 

  • For Publishers Weekly, Gabrielle Bellot interviewed novelist Edwidge Danticat, who tells her "Sometimes people know our most vulnerable places. Because of that, we do things we know we shouldn’t do—things that have tragic outcomes. This is the kind of conflict that I’m drawn to..."

  • GQ's list of "The 31 Best Beach Reads" includes Seth Fried's novel The Municipalists. 

  • "Thirteen interviews. Six days. Three States. One crazy CRAZY story." Mara Reinstein wrote an oral history of the groundbreaking TV show In Living Color, on the 25th anniversary of its series finale, for The Hollywood Reporter. 

  • The Mary Sue published Kody Keplinger's essay "How Dungeons and Dragons Became so Wonderfully Gay." 

  • Publishers Weekly reviewed Carole Bugge's forthcoming novel Pride, Prejudice, and Poison (written under the pen name Elizabeth Blake), calling it a "winning, fine whodunit." The mystery novel will be released by Crooked Lane Books in August. 

  • Radix Media published Ashley Shelby's novella Muri as part of its Futures: A Science Fiction Series.

  • Laura Yeager's essays "When Your Grass Is the Worst in the Neighborhood," "Looking for Long-Term Care Insurance," and "Cancer Destroyed My Figure, so I Ate to Comfort Myself" are all featured in Cure Today. 

  • The Center for Fiction named Alanna Schubach one of its 2019 Emerging Writers Fellows. 

  • "The American Folk Art Museum earned...Best Manhattan Venue a few years ago, largely because of impresario Lara Ewen, who brings in a wildly diverse and frequently excellent mix of global folk styles along with Americana and singer-songwriters." So says New York Music Daily, which also called Lara "Manhattan's most fearless impresario" and said she "has one of the most magically mutable voices in town."  

  • The Poetry Foundation published Gabrielle Bellot's essay "Lady of the Moon" about the poet Amy Lowell. 

  • Carmen Bugan's forthcoming poetry collection Lillies From America received a special commendation from the Poetry Book Society. 

  • Justina Ireland's YA novel Dread Nation is now out in paperback. 

  • 1, 2, 3, Jump!, a picture book illustrated by Madeline Valentine, is out now from Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan. 

  • In Salon, Seth Fried and fellow novelist K Chess talk about world building in speculative fiction, alternate universes, and why Seth needs to stop describing his new novel The Municipalists as "The Death and Life of Great American Cities meets Jeeves and Wooster." 

  • Emmy magazine published Mara Reinstein's interview with novelist Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, and new television mini-series State of the Union. 

  • Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's article "Actor Omid Abtahi's Career Prospers in Second Season of American Gods" is in Orange Coast Magazine. 

  • Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies published Nina Boutsikaris' essay "On Very Short Books, Miniatures, and Other Becomings." 

June 2019

  • Nina Boutsikaris' essay "Surrender" has been selected for the anthology The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, to be released in 2020 by Rose Metal Press. 

  • The Blotter published N. West Moss' essay "The Engagement Party." 

  • Atlas Obscura published Tal McThenia's article "How a Candy Craze Almost Wiped Out the Barrel Cactus." 

  • Gail's New Boyfriend, a film written and directed by Jim Mendrinos, debuted at the Hoboken Film Festival.  

  • Barbara DeMarco-Barrett wrote "11 over 70: Writers Who Persevere" for the Authors Guild Bulletin. 

  • Flavorwire named Gabrielle Bellot's LitHub essay "James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni's Room" to its Recommended Reading list of the "sharpest, funniest, and most thoughtful writing of the week." 

  • Tatjana Soli was longlisted for the 2019 Simpson Literary Prize, awarded to writers who have "earned a distinguished reputation and the approbation and gratitude of readers." 

  • "We’re told our system is meritocratic, that anyone who works hard and wants it enough can pursue a quality higher education and vault themselves up the class ladder. This isn't true," writes Alanna Schubach in her essay "How the Other Half Goes to College" for Jacobin magazine. 

  • Ben Obler's essay "In A Perfectly Dreadful World" appears in the Springboard English Language Arts textbook for middle-school students, published by The College Board. 

  • Tor Books announced it will publish two novels by Jennifer Marie Brissett, starting in 2020 with her speculative fiction novel Eleusis, set on another planet where people from Earth have fled after its destruction.   

  • Food52 published Sarah McColl's essay "The Undeniable Fun of Chile Con Queso, Before and After My Parents' Divorce," in its My Family Recipe section.  

  • Scholastic announced it will publish Kody Keplinger's middle-grade novel Lila and Hadley in the spring of 2020.  

  • In the Harvard Review, Carmen Bugan reviews the poetry collection Atmospheric Embroidery by Meena Alexander, saying it "raises important questions about how much poetry can help us to understand the suffering of others."

  • Crooked Lane Books will publish Carole Bugge's novel Pride, Prejudice and Poison in August, under the pen name Elizabeth Blake. It's the first book in a series of cozy mysteries set in North Yorkshire among members of the Jane Austen Society.

  • En Route, a short film directed and co-written by Pamela Harris, screened at the Anthology Film Archives as part of the NewFilmmakers NY series. 

May 2019

  • Blackstone Books will release Carole Bugge's forthcoming novel Pride, Prejudice and Poison (written under her pen name Elizabeth Blake) as an audio book, narrated by Justine Eyre.

  • Divya Sood's novel Find Someone to Love will be released by Riverdale Avenue Books on May 30th. 

  • Care.com published Melissa Petro's article "What Moms Really Want for Mother's Day (and It's Not a Box of Chocolates)." 

  • Billboard published Mara Reinstein's op-ed "Why Veteran Artists Should Stick to Three New Songs Per Concert." 

  • Tal McThenia's article "Erection Fever: How New York's Raw Gay History Ended Up in a Box" appears in Popula.

  • Nine Mile Press published Matthew Lippman's poetry collection A Little Gut Magic. 

  • "I think I speak for all discerning readers when I say that it can be frustrating when otherwise great books fall down on the giggle front," writes Seth Fried in "The Funniest Writing You Haven't Read" for Electric Literature. 

  • Harper Books announced it will publlish Jennifer Armstrong's next nonfiction book When Women Invented Television. 

  • The feature film Another City, written by Kuros Charney, is a selection of the Manhattan Film Festval and will be shown there on May 1st. 

  • Shahnaz Habib is a winner of The JCB Prize, "India's most valuable prize for literature," for her translation of the novel Jasmine Days, written by Benyamin.

  • Nina Boutsikaris' memoir I'm Trying To Tell You I'm Sorry will be released on May 15th by Black Lawrence Press. 

  • Carole Bugge's historical thrillers Edinburgh Twilight and Edinburgh Dusk, published by Thomas + Mercer under the pen name Carole Lawrence, are Amazon best-sellers, reaching the top 20 lists for both Traditional Detective Mysteries and Historical Mysteries. The third book in the series Edinburgh Midnight will be released next year.

  • The Chicago Quarterly Review published Ashley Shelby's short story "Migrant's Milk." 

  • Dancing Girl Press published Mary Donnelly's poetry chapbook Mad World Colored Oil. 

  • Gabrielle Bellot's essay "Compass" appears in Mal magazine.

  • Sarah McColl talked about structuring her memoir, discovering the value of her own writing, and "the incredible sense of personal power when you can create your own happiness with very little," in an interview with The Rumpus. 

  • The Writer magazine published Jessica Sticklor's article on creating truly memorable characters in fiction, "Beyond a List of Adjectives." 

  • Guideposts published Laura Yeager's essay "Follow the Star" in its Angels On Earth magazine.