
Author of OKSANA, BEHAVE! & SOMETHING UNBELIEVABLE (@randomhouse). Prof @AuburnU. Fiction Editor @SouthernHReview. Mom who makes dad jokes.
Auburn, AL
Joined December 2012
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Is your name Oksana? Did you have two ectopic pregnancies, have your new book not sell, get drunk, and search for your dead grandmother's old apartment in Santa Monica? If so, then my new story, "The Glow," up now @GuernicaMag, is just the thing for you!
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Check out our new online fiction feature "Sleds Like Bats" by Jeffrey S. Chapman!
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Our latest book review is now up on the site! Read N.S. Boone's review of Jorie Graham's KILLING SPREE, out today from @fsgbooks
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Ready to submit your poems of witness?
The Auburn Witness Prize is open now until June 1. Submit 3 poems for judge A. Van Jordan
Winner receives $1,000 & the opportunity to read at an event presented by @TheJuleMuseum
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Check out our new online fiction feature "Sugar Pop" by Johanna Castro!
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Listen to familiar music in "I Believed in the Sound" by Diana Keren Lee
Explore SHR 58.4: southernhumanitiesreview.com…
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Pray the levees hold in "On Hurricane Ida and Other Disasters: A Letter to My American Son" by Gabriela Mayes
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Replying to @PuncturedLines @BergstromBooks @OlgaLivshin @katiefar @jkolchpoetry @mashawrites @apartan @IrinaReyn1 @lucy_silbaugh @IamAlinaAdams @aliner
Ok, now you can marvel at the FULL list of the participants!
(sorry to all, we're clearly overwhelmed by the awesomeness of this upcoming event.)

ALT Background: Blue Foreground: Word in yellow reads: Featuring Words in white read: Valerie Bandura, Svetlana Binshtok, Daniel Blokh, Katie Farris, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Victoria Juharyan, Andrea Jurjevic, Ilya Kaminsky, Julia Kolchinsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Ellen Litman, Olga Livshin, olga mikolaivna, Asya Partan, Irina Reyn, Ena Selimović, Lucy Silbaugh, Alina Sivorinovsky Wickham, Lana Spendl, Alina Stefanescu, Natalya Sukhonos, Vlada Teper, Katherine E. Young, Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, Olga Zilberbourg, and Lena Zycinsky.
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Submissions open this Sunday, February 15th in fiction (print and online) and nonfiction!
Fiction is capped so submit early!
Learn more: southernhumanitiesreview.com…
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I had such a good experience with these editors when they published my story "Not Everyone Says Goodbye." Send in your best work!
Submissions open February 15 in fiction (print & online) & nonfiction!
There are a limited number free subs available. We will close fiction (print) after 250 paid subs are received & close online fiction after 100 subs are received.
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Less than 2 weeks left to apply to Auburn's MA program in English/Creative Writing! Gain publishing experience with SHR and two years of full funding!
Deadline: Feb. 15
More info at cla.auburn.edu/english & applygrad.auburn.edu
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Watch gray smoke gather in "Liquid amber trees" by Jessie Wingate
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Assume a "Posture of Apology" by Lim Hyeon translated by Yaerim Gen Kwon
Read an excerpt: southernhumanitiesreview.com…
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Auburn's MA program in English/Creative Writing is open for applications until February 15th! Gain publishing experience with SHR and two years of full funding! More info at cla.auburn.edu/english and applygrad.auburn.edu.
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Join us in congratulating contributors Shala Erlich, Christine Hale, Maggie Nye, and Nell Smith!
Their work in SHR was selected as "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025!
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Wear a crust of dirt in "After the Rain" by @tinybecomings
Find SHR 58.4 here: southernhumanitiesreview.com…
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This! "Maybe that money would have been better spent on multiple debuts, or on supporting a variety of authors at more advanced stages of their careers."
lithub.com/the-publishing-in… @mashawrites thanks for the recommend @SashaVasilyuk
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Feel your teeth buzz in "Someone Else's Wish" by Julie Pecoraro
Read the story's beginning here: southernhumanitiesreview.com…
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Hi! My essay, "The Publishing Industry Gambled On Me...and Lost" is up @lithub today.
And no, the humor of a novel about a postpartum mom feeling like a loser not selling was not lost on me! 😆
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Sleep, cascading, in "Reasons to Launch One Thousand Ships" by Clayton Spencer
Explore SHR 58.3 here: southernhumanitiesreview.com…
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Claim rage and the scent of rain in "Ensuring That My Grief Knows I Mean Business, in the Land of Swinging Bridges" by Clayton Spencer
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