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Publications
2023. The Box, a novel, Graywolf Press, House of Anansi Press
2023. “Soledad,” Estado Vegetal, University of Minnesota Press
2023. “Furniture Dreams,” an excerpt from The Box, Menagerie
2023. “Estranging English,” Literary Hub
2023. “Changeling,” an excerpt from The Box, Cardiff Review
2023. “10 De-anthropocentric Dystopian Novels in Translation,” Electric Literature
2023. “Of Snow and White Paper,” an excerpt from The Box, Adroit
2023. “The Box: Experiments and Inspirations,” Women Writers
2023. “To an Imagined Eye on behalf of Another,” with Lee Deigaard, How Far So Near, Carroll Gallery, Tulane
2022. “Cafe Crypsis,” Storm Cellar
2022. “A Foot on the Sky,” Unbound, New Rivers Press
2022. Awabi, second edition, Digging Press
2022. “Singularity,” Litro
2022. “A Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl,” Digging Through the Fat
2021. Listen, we all bleed, essays, New Rivers Press
2021. Listen, we all bleed excerpt, The Learned Pig
2021. “Singularity,” Stoneboat
2021. Review: Zoospeak by Gordon Meade and Jo-Anne McArthur, Antennae
2021. “Mills Creek,” Necessary Fiction
2021. “Disorienting Stories by Women,” A Personal Anthology
2021. “The Indoor Gardener,” Arcturus
2020. “Cold Light,” Entropy
2020. “Fossils,” The Scales Project
2020. “The Urban Wild Coyote Project,” Cosmonauts Avenue
2019-2020. Kiskadee, monthly column, Manqué Magazine
2020. “Seasons of Sunken Hydrophones,” Changing Tides, Pact Press
2020. Drafts of a Suicide Note excerpt, Digging Through the Fat
2020. Artificial Wilderness, Selcouth Station Press
2020. “How Long is a Wish-Walk Minute?” Thirty Times a Minute by Colleen Plumb, Radius Books
2020. “Another Word for Dive is Sound,” Permafrost
2020. Animals Across Discipline, Time & Space, McMaster Museum of Art
2020. “Not Just Crimson,” Black Warrior Review
2019. Drafts of a Suicide Note, Regal House Publishing
2019. Awabi, first edition, Digging Press
2019. “Breadcrumb #547” [Mutations], Breadcrumbs
2019. “Estivate,” The Spectacle Revue
2019. “Resonant Mirtazapine,” Entropy
2019. “The Snail,” The Deck Hand
2019. “To Dream As You,” Capacious
2019. “Kyoto and the Ultrasonic Bat Detector,” Manqué
2019. “How Long is a Wish-Walk Minute,” Little Patuxent Review
2019. “Art and the Saturday Gardener’s Secret Weapon,” Chaleur Magazine
2019. “The Urban Wild Coyote Project,” Waccamaw
2018. “Coconut Octopus…” Dreams, Strange Days Books
2018. “The Thingness of Sound,” Sonic Field
2018. “Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus),” trans. Gregory Papadoiyannis (Greek), Eyelands
2018. “The Slip,” Quail Bell
2017. “Bubbles,” The Spectacle
2017. “Turning Tables,” The Hypocrite Reader
2017. “Ayuka Breathes,” The Island Review
2017. “Amagoya,” Conclave: Voices from the Edge
2017. “Ayuka Breathes,” Five on the Fifth
2016. “Ama no Musume,” Dark Matter: Women Witnessing
2016. “History, Archaeology, and De-anthropocentrism in Sound Art,” The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art, Routledge Press
2016. “Seeks Position After Final Meal With Friend,” The Hypocrite Reader
2016. “Corregidora: Corporeal Archaeology, Embodied Memory and Improvisation,” with Nina Eidsheim, Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity, Duke University Press
2016. “Cosmopolitan Cannibal,” Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy, Open Court Press
2016. “Calderas,” The Hypocrite Reader
2015. “Towards Vital Materialist Aesthetics (Editorial),” Evental Aesthetics
2014. “Reading: Aesthetics, Ownership, and Form of Life in Agamben’s The Highest Poverty,” Evental Aesthetics
2013. “Listening to EDM: Sound Object Analysis and Vital Materialism,” Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies
2013. “Snail, Shark, Spirit (Editorial),” Evental Aesthetics
2013. “Sound Art,” “Sound Sculpture,” “Sound Installation,” “Christian Marclay,” “Yann Novak,” “Steve Roden,” “Mem1,” “Charlemagne Palestine,” “Max Neuhaus,” “Henry Gwiazda,” “Matmos,” “Phill Niblock,” “Margaret Leng Tan,” and “Trimpin,” The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Oxford University Press
2013. “Sound Art,” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press
2012. “Hegel’s Being-Fluid in Corregidora, Blues, and (Post)Black Aesthetics,” Evental Aesthetics
2011. “Frances Dyson’s Sounding New Media,” with Nina Eidsheim, Organised Sound
2010. “The Glammogr and the Present Inquiry,” UCLA Center for Studies on Women Newsletter
2009. “Pierre Schaeffer,” Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century, Salem Press
Forthcoming Publications
2024. “Notes from Underwater,” Cincinnati Review
TBA. “Ghosts of a Third,” Cybernetics and Ghosts, Subtext Books
Awards and Recognition
2024. Republic of Consciousness Prize, US and Canada (shortlist): The Box
2023. Foreword INDIES Book Award (anthologies finalist): Unbound
2022. ASLE Book Awards (creative writing finalist): Listen, we all bleed
2021. EcoLit’s Best Environmental Books: Listen, we all bleed
2021. SPD nonfiction bestseller: Listen, we all bleed
2020. Best of the Net (nominee): “Not Just Crimson”
2020. International Book Award (best new fiction finalist): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2020. Foreword INDIES Book Award (literary fiction finalist): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2020. Independent Publisher (IPPY) Award (cover design winner): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2020. Next Generation Indie Book Award (cover design winner): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2019. Eyelands Book Award (finalist): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2019. American Book Fest Best Book Award (General Fiction finalist): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2019. Selcouth Station Press Environmental Chapbook Competition (winner): Artificial Wilderness
2019. Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize Competition (finalist/honorable mention): Listen, we all bleed
2019. Digging Press Chapbook Series Competition (winner): Awabi
2018. Eyelands International Flash Fiction Competition (winner): “Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)”
2018. Permafrost Book Prize (finalist): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2017. Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest (honorable mention): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2017. Conium Review Book and Chapbook Prize (semifinalist): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2016. Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Program (fiction shortlist): Drafts of a Suicide Note
2015. Aeon Award for short fantasy fiction (shortlist): “Persimmon Wonderseeker and the Mystery of the Deadly Lambshade”
2011. Oxford Bibliographies Online Music Graduate Student Award
2011. Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA
2010. Mellon Fellowship of Distinction, UCLA
2009. Student Paper Award, College Music Society (Pacific)
2008. Mellon Fellowship of Distinction, UCLA
2003. Merit Award and Scholarship, NEC
2001. Anne Louise Barrett Fellowship for Music Studies, WC
2001. Billings Prize for Music Studies, WC
Readings and Presentations (selected)
2024. Estado Vegetal with Giovanni Aloi, Manuela Infante, and Caroline Picard, University of Minnesota Press podcast
2023. The More-Than-Human Multiverse, panel discussion, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
2023. The “Weak” Novel: Radical New Fiction from Graywolf Press, panel discussion, AWP
2022. Listen, we all bleed, Winter Celebration of the Arts, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN
2022. “A Foot on the Sky,” Rourke Museum, Moorhead, MN
2022. “A Foot on the Sky,” Zandbroz Variety, Fargo, ND
2022. Listen, we all bleed, Spotlight series, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
2022. “The Indoor Gardener” (The Box), Botanical Speculations
2022. Awabi, SMOL Fair
2021. The Box, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting (SLSA)
2021. Listen, we all bleed, SLSA
2021. Listen, we all bleed, PhantomPower podcast
2021. Listen, we all bleed, Compassion Arts Festival
2020. Artificial Wilderness, The Next Best Book Club
2020. Drafts of a Suicide Note, Festival of Language, AWP20 offsite, San Antonio, TX
2020. Drafts of a Suicide Note, Regal House Reading Series
2020. Drafts of a Suicide Note, KGB Bar, New York, NY
2020. Drafts of a Suicide Note, Normal Books, Athens, GA
2020. Awabi, KGB Bar, New York, NY
2020. “Seasons of Sunken Hydrophones,” Regal House Reading Series
2019. Listen, we all bleed, Beastly Modernisms, University of Glasgow
2019. “Ayuka and the Useless Speculation,” Experimental Theory and Radical Thought, The New School/Parsons
2018. Listen, we all bleed, Animal Sounds, Resonance FM
2018. Listen, we all bleed, SLSA, Toronto, Canada
2016. Awabi, SLSA, Atlanta, GA
Positions
2019-2020. Monthly columnist, Manqué Magazine
2011-2017. Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Evental Aesthetics
Professional Affiliations
Authors Guild
Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
European Society for Aesthetics
Education
2012. PhD. Musicology. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2008. MA Qual. Music History and Literature. University of Southern California (USC)
2005. Graduate Diploma. Piano Performance. New England Conservatory of Music (NEC)
2003. MM. Piano Performance with Academic Honors. NEC
2001. BA. Music with Honors, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Wellesley College (WC)