Books
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True Biz
A 2022 Reese’s Book Club pick and instant NYT best seller, this transporting novel follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf.
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Girl At War
For readers of The Tiger’s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship and belonging is profoundly shaped by war.
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America is Immigrants
A gorgeously illustrated collection featuring inspiring immigrants from every country in the world, celebrating the incredible range of what it means to be an American.
What’s New…
Short Fiction
-”A Deal with the Devil,” The Baffler, 2022
-"Three Fictions," Okay Donkey, 2021
- "Empyrean," Territory Lit, 2018
-"After the Attack," BOMB Magazine, 2017
-”Things Unspoken” Massachusetts Review, 2015
-"Of What Remains," TriQuarterly, 2015
-"Conversion," Guernica, February 2014
- "Notes on a War-Torn Childhood," Electric Literature, 2014
Essays/Criticism
-”How to Lose Your Hearing,” Oprah Daily, January 2023
-”Silence Brought me a Community and an Escape,” New York Times Magazine, July 2022
-”The Vehicle for my Feelings: How Sign Language Helped a Deaf Author Find her Voice,” The Guardian, May 2022
-”The Oscar Winner is a Flawed Triumph for the Deaf Community,” Slate, March 2022
-”There’s More to the ASL Performances in CODA than Nonsigners Realize,” Slate, February 2022
-”Don’t Fear a Deafer Future,” New York Times, October 2021
-"Marlee Matlin Knows How to Make Change," Bustle, August 2021
-"I was fortunate to get my vaccine, but the hurdles are too great for many Deaf people," CNN, April 2021
-“5 Captions on Captions,” Activating Captions exhibition, Argos Arts, April 2021
-'Sound of Metal' is a Heartwarming--and Frustrating--Take on Deafness," Mic, January 2021
-"Why 'Dinner Table Syndrome' is Getting Worse for Deaf People," BBC, October 2020
-"Masks are a Barrier Against the Coronavirus, But Also for Deaf People," Washington Post, July 2020
-"Pandemic Journal," New York Review of Books, April 2020
-"Residency Supports Deaf Writers," Poets & Writers, April 2020
-"That Feeling When Humiliation From Years Ago Hits You All Over Again," New York Magazine, February 2020
-"The Frustrating Fight for Closed Captions On In-Flight Entertainment," Conde Nast Traveler, January 2020
-"Deafness Isn't a Threat to Health. Ableism Is," Healthline, July 2019
-"A Clearer Message on Cochlear Implants," The New York Times, November 2018
-"ASL and Deaf Privilege," CUNY Center for the Humanities, October 2018
-"Texas' Twisted Excuse for Removing Helen Keller," CNN, September 2018
-"All Words Fly," Guernica Magazine, August 2018
-"Deaf Prisoners are Trapped in Frightening Isolation," CNN, June 2018
-"The Superpowers of Akil Kumarasamy," Work in Progress, May 2018
-"When it Comes to Depicting Disability, Hollywood Keeps 'Cripping Up'," CNN, March 2018
-"The G.O.P.'s HR620 Will Gut the Americans With Disabilities Act," NBC, February 2018
-"A Brief History of Time," Harper's, November 2017
-"America's Enduring Pastime: Baseball, Misogyny, and Reading The Natural," LitHub, October 2017
-"The Hearing World Must Stop Forcing Deaf Culture to Assimilate," NBC, October 2017
-"A History of Silence: Review of Belladonna," Music & Literature, September 2017
-"Interview with AGT's Mandy Harvey," Elle, August 2017
-"The Right to Remain Silent: Ableism, the English to Prison Pipeline, and the Plight of d/Deaf Inmates," The New Inquiry, March 2017
-Interview with Lidija Dimkovska, The White Review, March 2017
-"Front Row Virgins: I'm 'Afashionable So This is Going to Be Just Great," Elle, February 2017
-"When Good Christian Girls Need Planned Parenthood," New York Magazine, February 2017
-"Rhyme and Reason: Sign Language's Anti-Authoritarian Streak," Blunderbuss Magazine, January 2017
- 25 Best Books by Women in 2017," Elle, January 2017
-"Why the Deaf Community Fears President Trump," Vice, November 2016
- "What Does an Artist Look Like?" James Franco Review, November 2016
-"Who Can Speak for the Deaf Community?" LitHub, October 2016
- "An Escape from the Past Proves a Balm for Wounds," New York Times, August 2016
- "Can You Hear Me Now?" O Magazine, April 2016
- "At Home in Deaf Culture: Storytelling in an 'Unwritable' Language," Lit Hub, April 2016
- "More Than Applause: Deaf Art Needs Deaf Ed," HowlRound, April 2016
- "Sign of the Times: Sign Language for Everyone but the Deaf," Guernica, March 2016
- "Topography of a Novel," The Guardian, March 2016
- "Abandoned in Ohio," Blunderbuss Magazine, January 2016
- "Spring Awakening is the Best Musical You've Never Heard," Vice, October 2015
- "How to be a DJ When You're Deaf: Interview with Robbie Wilde," Vice, August 2015
- "'This is Not a Deaf Movie': Interview with The Tribe's Yana Novikova," Vice, June 2015
- "A Good Deaf Man is Hard to Find," The Believer, Fall 2015
- "Writer's Recommend," Poets & Writers, June 2015
- "What it's Like to be a Deaf Novelist," The Guardian, May 2015
- "Memories of Pan-Yugo Angst," Music + Literature, May 2015
- "Book Notes: Girl at War" Largehearted Boy, May 2015
- "Remission," Catapult, November 2015
- "Ableism Hurts," Blunderbuss Magazine, May 2014
- "Let's Stop Mansplaining Eastern Europe," Blunderbuss Magazine, March 2014
- "Writing Lessons," Ploughshares, September 2013
Sportswriting
The Believer: America's Favorite Pastime Series
- "Daniel Murphy's Butt Muscle, or the Politics of Disability," May 2019
- "There's No 'I' in March Madness," March 2019
- "Underdog Cities," January 2019
ESPN
- "In Defense of the Bandwagon Fan," espnW, February 2018
Baseball Prospectus, Short Relief
- "Lost Verses to 'Meet the Mets'," August 2018
- "Top 5 Baseball Superstitions, Conclusively Rated," August 2018
- "A Totally, One Hundred Percent, Really Really Fictional Mets Fan Fantasy," July 2018
- "Weird Baseball," July 2018
- "Barbarity and Baseball" June 2018
- "The Inspirational Speech the Mets Desperately Need...from Netflix" June 2018
- "Things Nolan Gorman Doesn't Remember" June 2018
- "Ode to a Diehard" June 2018
- "William Hoy and What We've Lost" May 2018
Baseball Prospectus, BP Mets
- "The Return of Jeurys Familia" April 2017
- "Here Comes the Bandwagon" March 2017
- "Can America's Past-time Change America's Future?" March 2017
- "New York's Best Real-life Fantasy Options," February 2017
- "Non-Roster Invitee Rundown," January 2017
- "Just Another Lady Thinkpiece," December 2016
- "I Don't Know's on Third," November 2016
- "Curtis Granderson and the Clemente Mets," November 2016
- "Mets Movie Moments," October 2016
- "Murphy's Law (and Other Great Baseball Superstitions)," October 2016
- "Mets Update: Everyone Had Surgery!" October 2016
- "It's Time for Your Rally Underpants (Mets Wild Card)," October 2016
- "A Brief History of Awesome Beatings Doled Out by the Mets," September 2016
- "The Other Multi-Sport Met," September 2016
- "Maybe TV Can Help Us Make Sense of the Collins/Comforto Schism?" September 2016
- "Last Train to Shea: Clarence Coleman and 1962's Best Losers," August 2016
- "Our Fans are Cooler Than Your Fans," August 2016
- "No No-Hitters, or How the Mets are Statistical Unicorns," August 2016
- "Baseball Magic, or Why Designated Hitters are Silly," July 2016
- "What is Baseball for? Jose Reyes, MLB and America's Pastime," July 2016
- "Meet the Mets: Draft Picks 31-40," July 2016
- "Meet the Mets: Draft Picks 21-30," June 2016
- "Meet the Mets: Draft Picks 11-20," June 2016
- "Meet the Mets: First 10 Draft Picks of 2016," June 2016
- "My Grandma Likes Ty Kelly and You Should, Too," June 2016
- "A Little Dose of Optimism for the Future of Mets' Catching," May 2016
- "The Phillie Phanatic is my Nemesis (and Other PA-Based Mets Villains)," May 2016
- "Party Like it's 1999: Will the Mets' Infielders be this Year's MVPs?" May 2016
- "What Could be Grander?: A Curtis Granderson Reverie," April 2016
- "Major League Dads: On deBaby, Paternity Leave and Bringing the Kids to Work," April 2016
- "An Ode to Steady Eddie," April 2016
- "Mrs. Met Can't Get Us Out of This One": Rule Changes, Discrimination and the Future of Baseball Fandom," March 2016
SB Nation, Amazin' Avenue
- "Harper Lee was a Mets Fan," February 2016
- "Generation Mets: A Family of Underdogs," October 2015
Anthologies
- Others: Writers on the Power of Words to Help us See Beyond Ourselves, Unbound Press, July 2019
(Proceeds of this book go to Refugee Action and Stop Hate UK)
- Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church, Epiphany Publishing, December 2019
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