English Department Faculty

Poetry

• “Deliver Me from My EpiPen,” forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review
• “Something Like a Prayer,” forthcoming in Image
• “Memento Mori: Bell Jar with Suspended Child,” forthcoming in Kenyon Review (online)
• “Mine Fire at Centralia,” forthcoming in South Dakota Review
• “On Story,” forthcoming in South Dakota Review
• “To a Four-Year-Old Daughter,” forthcoming in South Dakota Review
• “Honey,” forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review
• “Self-Portrait as Emma Bovary,” forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review
• “Creation Myth,” forthcoming in Sou’wester
• “Crown Cinquain for the Tattooed Man I Refused,” forthcoming in Sou’wester
• “No Response,” forthcoming in Sou’wester
• “Local Music,” forthcoming in Sugar House Review
• “The Game,” forthcoming in Washington Square Review
• “Flight Theory” (reprint), forthcoming in Waves anthology from AROHO
• “Crown Cinquain for a Lost Child, Eight Years Later,” Pleiades (June 2019)
• “Week Six of the Fire,” Pleiades (June 2019)
• “Interrogation Site,” Iron Horse Literary Review (March 2019)
• “Raising a Girl, 2018,” Mom Egg Review (March 2019)
• “Commute,” North American Review (February 2019)
• “Whale Fall,” North American Review (February 2019)
• “First Plow at Red Mountain Pass,” Valparaiso Poetry Review (December 2018)
• “After the Police Have Been Called,” ZYZZYVA (December 2018)
• “The Clearing” (reprint), Pushcart Prize XLIII (November 2018)
• “The Clearing” (reprint), SER TWO (October 2018)
• “Conneaut, 1982,” Pittsburgh Poetry Houses (October 2018)
• “Rose Garden at Villa Grimaldi,” Arkansas International (September 2018); nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize
• “Miscarriage” (reprint), Best American Poetry (September 2018)
• “Reading Issa,” Whiskey Island (August 2018)
• “Self-Portrait as Metaphor,” Whiskey Island (August 2018)
• “City Life,” The Florida Review (June 2018)
• “Hitching,” The Florida Review (June 2018)
• “If Imagination and Memory met, unexpectedly, one last time,” Baltimore Review (May 2018)
• “If Water Can Carry Us Anywhere, It Can Bring Us Home,” Crab Creek Review (April 2018)
• “When Horses Turn Down the Road,” FIELD (April 2018)
• “Biopsy,” Bennington Review (January 2018)
• “As I Near Forty I Think of You Then,” Gulf Stream (December 2017)
• “August in Laval,” The London Reader (December 2017)
• “Dora Maar Enters Her Own Blue Period,” Ninth Letter (December 2017)
• “He Waited for Days,” Measure (October 2017)
• “Lymphoma,” Measure (October 2017)
• “Herr’s Ridge, 1983: A Reënactment,” Minnesota Review (October 2017)
• “Stopping Over the Arno,” Poet Lore (October 2017)
• “The Clearing,” The Southeast Review (October 2017); won a 2019 Pushcart Prize
• “Fine Arts,” Penn Review (August 2017); nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize
• “Ways to Describe a Death Inside Your Own Living Body,” American Poetry Review (July 2017)
• “As for the Glossy Green Tractor You Were,” Subtropics (June 2017)
• “Recurring Dream,” Subtropics (June 2017)
• “Bear Fight in Rockaway,” Boston Review (May 2017)
• “Angelus,” The Greensboro Review (April 2017)
• “Maps for the Plotline,” Third Coast (February 2017)
• “Thirst,” Comstock Review (December 2016)
• “Silverton,” conc­īs (December 2016)
• “So Shiny Are the Spoils,” National Poetry Review (November 2016)
• “Waking to Two Borrowed Lines,” New South (November 2016)
• “The Big Thinkers,” Nimrod (October 2016)
• “Miscarriage,” Southwest Review (October 2016)
• “Fable,” Mississippi Review (June 2016)
• “Flight Theory,” Los Angeles Review (May 2016); forthcoming in Waves, anthology from the A Room of Her Own Foundation
• “Gettysburg,” Shenandoah (March 2016)
• “Western Slope,” Best New Poets 2015 (December 2015)
• “Mother of 2 Stabbed to Death in Silverton, Colorado,” Tahoma Literary Review (December 2015)
• “What Falls Behind,” Coffee House Poetry / Troubadour International (November 2015)
• “Advice for the New Mother,” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (November 2015)
• “Letter to My Foundling: #235, Boy,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal (October 2015)
• “Debt,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal (October 2015)
• “What We Should Really Be Afraid Of,” The Missouri Review (Poem of the Week, August 2015)
• “Letter to My Niece, in Silverton, Colorado,” Mid-American Review (December 2014); forthcoming in Milk Teeth, anthology from Hermeneutic Chaos; nominated for a Pushcart Prize; runner-up for Best Small Fictions 2015
• “Making Way,” reprinted in the anthology Hacks (September 2007)
• “Terra Straniera” (translation from original Italian), epigraph to The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani, Algonquin Press (September 2005)
• “Making Way,” The Boston Globe (June 2005)

Prose

• “How Did It End?” (flash fiction), The Lascaux Review (June 2017)
• “Self-Portrait as Cenotaph (Gettysburg)” (flash fiction), Nano Fiction (April 2016)
• “MAR Asks, Allison Adair Answers” (contributor interview), Mid-American Review blog (July 2015)
• “A Hypertext Tribute to James Tate” (digital arts project), co-authored with Christopher Boucher, Electric Literature (July 2015)
• “The Rumpus Hypertext Interview with Maya Lang” (interview), The Rumpus (June 2015)
• “Free Ulysses!” (interview), The Brooklyn Quarterly (July 2014)
• “Fact vs. Fiction in Memoir and Fantasy” (essay), Grub Daily (August 2012)
• “The Myth of Writing ‘for Yourself’” (essay), Grub Daily (May 2012)
• “Writing Despite College. Or Marriage. Or Work. Or Newborns. Or…” (essay) Grub Daily (April 2012)
• “Sharing Your Work with Family” (essay), Grub Daily (March 2012)
• “Literary Imitation (with a Side of Frickles)” (essay), Grub Daily (February 2012)
• “The Writer’s Search for Self-Knowledge: Goal or Distraction?” (essay), Grub Daily (January 2012)
• “Silencing Your Inner Grinch: How to Keep Writing During the Holidays” (essay), Grub Daily (December 2011)
• “Some Lines to Get You Going” (essay), Grub Daily (November 2011)
• “How to Read Like a Writer” (essay), Grub Daily (September 2011)
• “Writing the Unpublishable (Should We Even Bother?)” (essay), Grub Daily (August 2011)
• “A Mass of Stupid Filth (and Why ‘Real’ Poets Don’t Exist)” (essay), Grub Daily (June 2011)
• “Poets You Should Read” (essay), Grub Daily (May 2011)
• “Finishing: Is It Even Possible?” (essay), Grub Daily (April 2011)
• “The Mysterious M.F.A.” (essay), Grub Daily (February 2011)