The Waves Writing Group

A wave of enthusiasm for my writing group: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Alice Butler and Rebecca Hurst. Three women who are not afraid to tell me the truth. That’s true love.

Image credits:

Meghann Riepenhoff, ‘Littoral Drift #26 (Tower Beach, Hilton Head, SC 05.28.13, Tidal Pools, Dipped and Buried)’, cyanotype. © Meghann Riepenhoff.

Esther Teichmann, plate 15 (part of) diptych from ‘Mythologies’, 2010, C–type. © Esther Teichmann.

George Lange, ‘Francesca Woodman – 101 N. Main St. #8’, 1976, archival pigment print. © George Lange Photography.

Ron Jude, ‘Sea Grotto (North)’, from the series 12 Hz, 2017, printed 2019, Inkjet print. © Ron Jude.

Select Fiction and Poetry

‘A Magpie and an Envelope’
Thoughts One Can’t Do Without series
Juxtapress, February 2021

‘The Book of Mary’
Film+Place+Architecture
‘Water’, Issue 1, 2019 (forthcoming)

‘Like Water in Water’
(a short story)
Hotel, No. 4, Spring 2018

‘Mothball Moon’
PNR, 229, May 2016

‘Not a Dead Letter’
Flash: The International Short Story Magazine
Vol. 7, No. 2, October 2014

‘Like a Lake’
Short Fiction, No. 9, Autumn 2015
‘Like a Lake’ is now available in paperback.

Select Essays

‘Moeder, Maman. Mom’
in Chantal Akerman: Afterlives, edited by Marion Schmid and Emma Wilson (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019)

‘Smack-dab: Finding Love in the Painting of Manny Farber’
in Manny Farber, eds. Michael Almereyda, Jonathan Lethem and Robert Polito (Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, 2019)

‘Two Hares Falling Out of Breath’
Cabinet Magazine, Issue 6 / Spring 2018–Winter 2019

‘The Closed Cosmogony of Utopia’
Frieze Masters, Issue Five, October 2016

‘Collapse’
A few words on middleness
Cabinet Magazine, Issue 56 / Winter 2014–2015

‘Colors / Aquamarine’
No past, no future
Cabinet Magazine, Issue 51 / Fall 2013

‘Encircling Black and Blue’
Photography and Culture, Volume 6, Issue 3, 2013

‘Tragic Candy, Time: Minou Drouet and the Photograph’
Cabinet Magazine, 2011

‘Alicious Objects: Believing in six impossible things before breakfast; or reading Alice nostologically’
Photographies, 2011

‘“Phantoms of the Past, Dear Companions of Childhood, Vanished Friends,” Making Sense of Sally Mann’s Trees’
Making Sense: For an Effective Aesthetics
Edited by Lorna Collins and Elizabeth Rush (Peter Lang, 2011)