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Published Work

Links and clips and a few things only in print.

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Essays

Boys in the Snow
JMWW "In the Pocket" flash issue, 13 September, 2018
excerpt from my in-progress book-length memoir

Sex and Mending 
Ink & Voices, 19 March, 2018

Radio
Atticus Review, 15 March 2018 

Arguing in a Wetsuit
Seattle's Child, Issue No. 458 , 1 November 2017

Ghost of Seattle Past: An Anthology of Lost Places (foreword)
Chin Music Press, 2017
WA State Book Award nonfiction finalist 


Tit for Tat
Under the Gum Tree, Issue No. 18, January 2016
excerpt from my in-progress book-length memoir

Under Construction 
Terrain.org, 6 July 2015

Origination
Literary Mama, October 2013

Canoe 
Bacopa Literary Review
2nd place Creative Non-Fiction contest, Spring 2013

In Falling
Shambhala Sun SunSpace, November 2012

10:15 on a Saturday Night
Hip Mama magazine, 2012

Notes from the Laundry Pile
Stratus Journal of Arts & Writing, Summer 2011


Profiles and Interviews


Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace Interview w/ co-editors Carolyne Wright & Eugenia Toledo
Soundings Review, Summer 2016

To Take Back, To Make Right, To Make Useful: Ana Maria Spagna talks about her new book Reclaimers. 
Soundings Review, Summer 2015 
AMS-interview_Clip

Rewriting the Rules with Author Elissa Washuta
Bitch magazine (online), 13 Aug, 2014

Hugo House's Brian McGuigan on Inspiring Your Own Creativity 
We Were Just 17, Part III, crosscut.com, 11 August, 2014

Chicago's Wealth Divide Teaches Seattle's Art Scene How to Bridge the Gap 
We Were Just 17, Part II, crosscut.com, 15 July, 2014

Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen gets the F* Out of Her Own Head 
We Were Just 17, Part I, crosscut.com, 1 July, 2014


Book & Film Reviews


First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper
Bitch Magazine

10 Novels for Summer Reading
Brain Child online, 3 July 2015

How to Grow Up by Michelle Tea. The Rumpus, April 2015

Love and War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance by Tom Digby. 
Bitch magazine, Issue 66, Spring 2015
Bitch No 66 LOVE+WAR Review Clip

Pale Hope in a Dreary Place: Review of Pale Harvest by Braden Hepner.
High Country News, 16 February, 2015

She's Beautiful When She's Angry Will Probably Make You Cry....
Bitch magazine (online), 28 January, 2015

My Body is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta 
The RUMPUS, 18 November, 2014

Tragedy, Coincidence, and Patterns: Review of Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West 
​by Sarah Alisabeth Fox.
High Country News, 15 September, 2014

My Body is a Book of Rules, by Elissa Washuta.
Bitch magazine, Issue 64, Fall 2014 
Bitch64_MyBodyIsABookOfRules_REVIEW_CLIP



Guest Blogger


Lessons in Community, Rejection, and Doggedness: What I'm Actually Learning in an MFA Now That I've Finally Gotten Around To It
​Brevity Blog, 16 March, 2015

Micro-Lesson from How to Begin When Your Head is Empty
Hugo House, February 2015

Daughters, Sisters, Mothers, Wives. Write For Us.
Literary Mama, After Page One, April 2014

Truth & First Person Journalism / AWP 2014
Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, March 2014

Just Because It's Your Birthday
Interdependence Project, November 2012

Compassion, Wisdom, and Tee Tee the Turtle
Interdependence Project, October 2012


​Poetry


Pennsylvania Anthracite
Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue 2, May 2014


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