selected writing
essay | criticism | translation
Translation of Los analfabetas by María Paz Guerrero: The Common
Mysticality: Poetry as an Act of Mysticism: Academia Letters
On Community and Colonoscopies: A Pandemic Essay: Avidly
Feelings Forward: On Reading Books and Ourselves: Los Angeles Review of Books, Blog
A Tarot Deck Offers Spiritual Solace to Scholars: Hyperallergic
The Daily Text Poems of a Los Angeles Tele-Haikuist
Anonymous story for “Sex Diaries”: New York Magazine’s The Cut
#RopaSucia and No me llamo mamacita: Revista de Estudios de Hispánicos
reviews | interviews
A Cosmos of Bodies: On Jazmina Barrera’s “Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes”: Los Angeles Review of Books
Friday Reads: Amora by Natalia Borges Polesso, translated by Julia Sanches: The Common
Interview with Sean Manning on translating Ida Vitale: The Common
An Unusual Invitation: X Artists’ Books launches X Projects, an experimental publishing project that questions what a book might not be after all: BRUT Magazine
Friday Reads: The Reconception of Marie by Teresa Carmody: The Common
Rewriting the West: A Discussion about the Cultural History of the American “Frontier”: Los Angeles Review of Books
Interview with Cinelle Barnes: Los Angeles Review of Books, Blog
Interview with Richie Deegan: The End of Austin
Review: Calypso Jews by Sarah Phillips Casteel: E3W: Ethnic and Third World Literatures
higher ed research | resources
“We All Have Levers We Can Pull: Reforming Graduate Education”: Los Angeles Review of Books
Alumni@Work video interview: University of Texas at Austin Enrollment Management and Student Success
editing
academic
I consult with scholars on their research and provide developmental editing, proofreading, and indexing for their scholarly monographs, journal articles, and tenure review files.
Publishers include: Duke University Press, The University of Texas Press, Palgrave MacMillan, and a variety of scholarly journals.
literary
-Literary translations from Spanish and Portuguese to English
-Creative nonfiction/memoir
-Biography
-Cultural criticism
-Literary essay
materials preparation
I help individuals develop job and grant application materials, including but not limited to: cover letters, resumes/CVs, personal statements, research outlines, and teaching statements.
sound bite book review
one minute video book reviews in any category, in any language, from readers like you
Twitter: BookSoundBite
Beyond Babylon
by Igiaba Scego | translated by Aaron Robertson
published by Two Lines
reviewed by Stephanie Malak
Hurricane Season
by Fernanda Melchor | translated by Sophie Hughes
published by New Directions
reviewed by Stephanie Malak
feelings:SLAM
Founded in 2020, the Visionary Futures Collective (VFC) is an organization of humanists working to respond to the COVID-19 crisis across US campuses. Their work is shaped by the BLM movement, addressing racial and gender inequities in Higher Ed exacerbated by the pandemic. Among their many projects is a caregivers survey where 309 respondents chose one of four emotional reactions to their institution’s COVID-19 plan of action: 148 felt abandoned, 124 felt somewhat supported, 33 felt adequately supported, and 4 felt fully supported.
feelings:SLAM visually imagines these individuals’ responses across various styles and borders within poetic structures.
[The Archivist tarot card in feelings:EMBED is by artist Claire Chenette, image courtesy of the VFC]
hollywood cemetery | cinespia