This semester, when I signed up for a creative writing-fiction workshop, I thought: this should be interesting. It’ll make me… Read more 73 & counting

And with that, all my Fulbright translations from my year in Ljubljana were published. It took a year to translate… Read more January: the month of translations

Why hello there, snow. Where have you been? Your absence has allowed my sister, brother, and me to race around… Read more Hello, snow.

Thanks to my friend, Devin, for passing along a CFP on Orhan Pamuk’s Snow, and to Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein for… Read more *New Publication* The Poetics of Politics and the Politics of Poetry (in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow)

So, I have an old phone. That’s not news to anyone who knows me. I carry around an LG Cosmos… Read more My dumb phone and me

Before I knew what the words meant, I wrote an ending to a short story in college: something about how… Read more On saying good-bye

    When Elizabeth Gilbert’s self-indulgent turned feel-good Julia Roberts story Eat, Pray, Love hit the theaters in Europe, it was a… Read more All I ever got to was the eating. But that was enough.