On August 31, 1999, a handmade bomb exploded in a popular Moscow shopping mall. I was there, and watched rubble, dust, and screaming erupt around me. Read more about the event and my changing understanding of this experience in an essay over at Pacific Standard.
A few exciting updates: My collection of poems entitled "Short-Shorts" was named a semi-finalist in the Gazing Grain Press Feminist Poetry Chapbook contest. I'd been…
A Facebook friend who’d moved to the U.S. from St. Petersburg in his thirties recently posted a frustrated status update in which he complained about…
I'll be at Bloombars in Columbia Heights this Sunday from 3-5pm, as part of the PERFORMETRY series, doing my first reading since I moved back…
On a panel about memoir at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference this past March, Stephen Elliott loosely quoted Michelangelo: I…
Love this reflection on work, life, writing and optimism from Emily Gould: Last weekend I talked to a friend who has a books-related job. This…
My latest article is up at The Jewish Daily Forward. It's a profile of a prominent community leader in the predominantly Russian neighborhood of Brighton…
Continue reading → “Pat Singer Is the Mother of Brighton Beach”
"Experiment, play, dare to be really bad, fool around, and just notice what an incredible luxury it is to be in this formative, uncertain, experimental…
Over a year ago, I wrote: There are hundreds of small presses cropping up all over the country, publishing in small volumes, often using handmade…
Continue reading → Ugly Duckling Presse in the News and in My Heart
My translation of a personal essay by Andrei Krasnyashykh just came out in the Summer 2012 issue of The Massachusetts Review. The essay "On the Dream…
Continue reading → More of my translations, in The Massachusetts Review
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