Two Brevity essays have been listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025. Enthusiastic congratulations to @dianaruzova.bsky.social ["The Sauna"] and @dianezinna.bsky.social   ["Astonish"]. Links below.

Check out my latest conversation for @thecreativeindependent.com with artist David Hendren. ✨ thecreativeindependent.com/people/visua...

“Cousins have our backs. They are our built-in friends. And from an evolutionary perspective, they have a biological stake in our survival.” The next Friendship Week story is by @dianaruzova.bsky.social and all about how cousins can be the earliest friends for some immigrant families.

LOVE our conversation for @thecreativeindependent.com @aidenarata.bsky.social thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Really enjoyed my conversation with writer Boris Fishman for @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

"Our cousins are our companions for all of life’s curveballs. And while sometimes, we don’t get along, like siblings, cousins share both our family secrets and genetics. They share our lives.” Story by @dianaruzova.bsky.social.

Check out my latest interview for @thecreativeindependent.com with the indelible author Alejandro Heredia. thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

In print! @latimes.com

Wrote about love for the @latimes.com Huge thank you to @marquesharper.bsky.social www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

"Photos act as timestamps and notes, just waiting to reveal something new or forgotten in the primary-colored Chuck E Cheese ball pit of time." ~ @dianaruzova.bsky.social (with a bonus Writing Exercise) brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/p...

"I feel like making art has been simultaneously undervalued and yet cordoned off as a luxury activity." lots to think about in @dianaruzova.bsky.social's excellent interview with @rosiebrand.bsky.social in @thecreativeindependent.com today! thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...

Really enjoyed talking to @rosiebrand.bsky.social for @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...

“While sometimes, we don’t get along, like siblings, cousins share both our family secrets and genetics. They share our lives.” In our latest, @dianaruzova.bsky.social writes about how in some immigrant families, cousins can be your earliest (and best) friends.

I wrote about cousins for @conversationalist.org! conversationalist.org/2025/04/04/f...

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Loving how much hope vibrates in this #interview with #SanFran #collage #artist eryn kimura ... and the middle finger, and risographs!

One of the best most inspiring conversations I’ve ever had! @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...

My 🪳cockroach essay is in this anthology by 👀@autofocusbooks.bsky.social pre-order here: autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...

Our summer box is now available for preorder(!): Katharine Coldiron’s OUT THERE IN THE DARK, E.N Couturier’s ORGANIC MATTER, & a surprise anthology, collecting 40+ prose works from the 4 years of our online journal (RIP, 2020-2024), plus a free 4th book. Find out more at autofocusbooks.com!

Readings by, continued: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Olga Livshin, @dianaruzova.bsky.social , @irinareyn1.bsky.social, Ainsley Morse, Timmy Straw 3/3

Calling all LA folk!! Come to this one of a kind reading brings together Soviet-born writers as they weave together an intricate story of identity, memory, cultural intersections, immigration, and war. Hosted by the @wendemuseum.bsky.social. 1/2

Loved talking to painter Annie Pendergrast for @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

It was a pleasure to interview artist Molly Bounds for @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/visua...

We are happy to share our 2024 Pushcart nominations. Kinship: One Week in LA, @amspagna.bsky.social Mountain Milk, Shubha Venugopal Astonish, Diane Zinna The Sauna, @dianaruzova.bsky.social Carry Me, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social Transition Lenses, Jessica Petrow-Cohen

Wrote something new for @havehashad.com ☠️ www.havehashad.com?fbclid=PAZXh...

LGBTQ+ journalist Nico Lang's (they/them) debut ethnography, AMERICAN TEENAGER, profiles eight young people in various stages of gender affirming care. Read @dianaruzova.bsky.social's interview with the author: chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/06/a...

My latest review for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/962518/how-d...

I wrote about The Coop for @eater.bsky.social 🍕https://la.eater.com/2024/9/19/24247366/coop-pizza-palms-culver-city-los-angeles-new-york-style?_gl=1*12bglic*_ga*MTIzNjU3OTkwMS4xNzI2MDEwMTM0*_ga_GMSWCRTSTY*MTcyNjc2NzA5OS41LjEuMTcyNjc2NzE0MS4xOC4wLjA

Wrote about three shows currently up at Night Gallery for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/918704/three...

Wrote about the impermanence of renting in Los Angeles for @latimes.com www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...

Loved talking to Katya Apekina for Full Stop. www.full-stop.net/2024/05/14/i... Buy her book!

Check out my flash essay “The Sauna” in the latest issue of Brevity. Honored to be in such brilliant company. Huge thank you to Editor-in-Chief Dinty W. Moore. brevitymag.com/current-issu...

Check out my recent interview for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social with Nicolette Polek. chireviewofbooks.com/2024/04/30/b...

Interviewed Mamie Green and Sammy Loren for BOMB Magazine. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

check out my latest art review for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/878581/summe...

Wrote about the motherhood penalty for Perelel. perelelhealth.com/blogs/news/p...

“Profoundly powerful… Deftly traverses our exceedingly connected yet somehow lonelier-than-ever world.” @dianaruzova.bsky.social reviews The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon 📓💜 for Los Angeles Review of Books! lareviewofbooks.org/article/spec...

I reviewed Athena Dixon’s important memoir-in-essays The Loneliness Files @tinhouse.bsky.social for the Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org/article/spec...

Honored to have an essay in the latest issue of Desert Times 🦂✨ deserttimes.bigcartel.com/product/dese...

Contributed to this sweet lil zine❤️

Wrote about four new-ish LA restaurant’s experimenting with fusion cooking. laist.com/news/food/la...

Interviewed Leslie Sainz for the Chicago Review of Books about her debut poetry collection Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House). chireviewofbooks.com/2023/10/09/c...

Check out this art review I wrote for @hyperallergic.com. hyperallergic.com/847190/chris...