Books
The Braided River
Migration and the Personal Essay
Otago University Press
ISBN 978-1-98-853153-3
"A migrant lives in the space between the self and other. The personal essay expresses this sense of location—and dislocation—the way no other genre does." The Braided River: Migration and the Personal Essay explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different countries, spanning all ages and life stages. The first book to examine migration through the lens of the personal essay, The Braided River presents migration as a lifelong experience that affects everything from language, home, work, family and friendship to finances, citizenship and social benefits. Like migrants themselves, The Braided River crosses boundaries, working at the intersections of literature, history, philosophy and sociology to discuss questions of identity and belonging. ... See further information and book launch dates in Wellington & Christchurch
other publications
My Favorite Boot
Personal essay in North American Review 308.3 (Fall 2023) ISSN 00292397/EISSN 23291907
Son, Sword, Chocolate
Personal essay in Landfall 242 (Spring 2021) ISBN 9781990048111
Under Clearer, Brighter Stars
Personal essay in Thom Conroy’s (ed.) home: new writing (Massey University Press, ISBN 978-0-9941407-5-3, Oct 2017, pages 173-188)
Changed, Changed Utterly
Book review of Kathleen Gallagher’s Earthquakes & Butterflies in New Zealand Books: A Quarterly Review (10 June 2016)
Writing Between Two Shores
Revised paper from the 2014 AAWP conference published in Minding the Gap: Writing Across Thresholds and Fault Lines (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
Her Day’s Work & Grandma’s House
Snake Nation Review 24, 2011
On Not Going Home
Under the Sun 24(1), 2008
Crepe de Chine
Clackamas Literary Review XII, 200824(1), 2008
The Traveling Daughter
Ninth Letter Fall/Winter (4.2), 2007
The Invisible Distance
The Louisville Review 61, 2007. Selected as a ‘Notable Essay’ in The Best American Essays 2008 (Ed. Adam Gopnik, ISBN 0618983228)
Solved By Walking, In This Parting & The Pearls
Snake Nation Review 22, 2007
Family Geometry
Selected for republication by the editors for Five Years of Fourth Genre, Michigan State University Press (IBSN 087013776X), 2006
The Far Gaze
Cimarron Review 157, 2006
The Tribe of the Solitaries
Puerto del Sol 41(2), 2006Vinaigrette
Gulf Coast Winter/Spring, 2006
The Ore of Longing
AGNI 62, 2005
Lemongrass to the Plains
Quarterly West 2005
In the Drawer of Sharp Things
The North American Review 290(1), January/February 2005 — selected as a ‘Notable Essay’ in The Best American Essays 2006 (Eds. Robert Atwan & Lauren Slater, ISBN 0618705295)
In Her Wake
The Georgia Review 58(3), Fall 2004
Akin
Many Mountains Moving 6(2), October 2004
Meditation in L
jubilat 8, 2004 — also selected as the Poetry Daily feature for Sept. 16, 2004
Meditation in I
The Gettysburg Review 17(2), Summer 2004 — selected as a ‘Notable Essay’ in The Best American Essays 2005 (Ed. Susan Orlean, IBSN 0618357130)
Tazzini
With Jennifor Sinor, Blue Scarab Press chapbook, Idaho, USA, 2004
Family Geometry
Fourth Genre 5(1), Spring 2003 — Project Muse link
Undertow
Puerto del Sol 33(1), Spring 1998
After Plato
The Cream City Review 21(2), Summer 1997
Seeing Alex
The Sonora Review Spring/Summer 1997 — selected as a ‘Notable Essay’ in The Best American Essays 1998 (Ed. Cynthia Ozick, IBSN 0395860520).
Apprenticed
15th Anniversary Anthology of Iowa Woman Autumn, 1995 — when initially published, selected as a ‘Notable Essay’ in The Best American Essays 1990 (Ed. Justin Kaplan, ISBN 0899199372).
The Third Turn
The North Dakota Quarterly 59(3), Summer 1991
Prairie Village & Driving Across the High Mesa
The Iowa Review, 20(1), Winter 1990
Kin
River Styx 31, 1990
Scarlet Liturgies: The Poetry of Olga Broumas
The North Dakota Quarterly 55(4), Fall 1987
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