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NON-FICTION

2023  The Washington Post  The Battle for the Sabbath: The world very nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days

 

2022  National Geographic  Inside the Curve: Stories from the Pandemic (essay)

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2022  Discover  An Eye for Ants

 

2021  Longreads  Doctors Without Patients: The Eritrean Physicians Stuck in American Licensing Limbo

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2021  The Washington Post  The Nation's Challenged Roads, Bridges and Airways

 

2020  Rolling Stone  Veterans Feel Betrayed as U.S. Immigration System Fails Imperiled Iraqi Allies 

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2020  Elle Magazine  Resettling As A Refugee During A Global Pandemic

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2019  Electric Literature  Shopping for a Boy? Give Him a Book About a Girl

 

2018  The Washington Post  'Attacked and starved’: A century-old diary recounts U.S. soldiers trapped behind enemy lines

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2018  Electric Literature  Medical Knowledge Is Not Enough Without Medical Narratives

 

2015 — The Believer — Top 100 US Drug Brand Names and Their Apparent Meaning

 

2014 — The Believer — Appointments with Death: a survey of the various poisons used for nefarious purposes in Agatha Christie novels

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2012 — Penn Review — Still Life

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2012 — The Daily Pennsylvanian Exclusive Interview: Junot Diaz on writing, Yunior and books that make him angry

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2012 — The Daily Pennsylvanian Occupy movement marches on MLK Day in recognition of wealth inequality

FICTION

2021 — AGNI — By the Creeks of Wyoming

 

2020 — The Kenyon Review — "The Forgetting Diary

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              "Why We Chose It" Kirsten Reach's editor's note about "The Forgetting Diary"

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2018 — Hypertext — "The Clique Gospels"

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2017 — PANK — "The Dry Season"

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2017 — American Short Fiction — "Between the Shores"

              "Web Exclusive Interview" Erin McReynolds interviews Shoshana about "Between the Shores"

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2017 — Hoot — "Corpuscle"

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2016 — The Grief Diaries — "Good & Kind"

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2014 — Penn Review — "Topography"

TRANSLATION

2020 — ALTA Conference Chapbook — Selections from "Coffee and Cake" (Origin. Inbar Livnat)

 

2020 — Asymptote  — "Air Plants" (Origin. Inbar Livnat)

 

2020 — Kenyon Review Online  "Party" "Relocation" & "Rift" (Origin. Inbar Livnat) 

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2019 — DoubleSpeak — "I" (Origin. Rachel Bluwstein)

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2017 — Flash: International Short-Short Story Magazine  "Purity" (Origin. Inbar Livnat)

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REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

2024 — Electric Literature — "For Ledia Xhoga, “What If…” Became a Debut Novel"

                                                   (Interview with writer, Ledia Xhoga)

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2021 — Words Without Boarders Subverting Gendered Language: Translating “Las Biuty Queens”

                                                              (Interview with translator, Hannah Kauders)

 

2021 — Electric Literature — "The Poems of 'Ghost Letters' Erase Boundaries of Language"

                                                   (Interview with poet and translator, Baba Badji)

 

2020 — Hippocampus — "Review of ‘The Dragons, The Giant, The Women’"

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2020 — Hippocampus  "Review of ‘The Magical Language of Others’

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2018 — Europe Now — "Review of ‘Bees of the Invisible’"

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Select Awards & Honors

  • 2020 - American Literary Translators Association Conference Fellowship

  • 2020 - National Geographic Foundation COVID Reporting Grant

  • 2019 -​ The Bishop J.R.H. Moorman Research Fellowship at Gladstone’s Library 

  • 2019 - Jentel Foundation Fellowship 

  • 2019 - Awesome Project Grant Recipient 

  • 2018 - Columbia University Dean’s Travel Grant Recipient 

  • 2018 - The Pollination Project Grant Recipient

  • ​2018 - Columbia University Fiction Teaching Fellowship
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