ANTHOLOGIzed FICTION

“Swingers” in Queer Flora, Fauna, Funga, Valiz (2026) — Rats take matters into their own hands and direct their own evolution—generations later, they grow wings

“Operation Hyacinth” in Be Gay, Do Crime, Dzanc (2025)—Aging queers whose LA complex has been sold take matters into their own hands and rob banks, with help from a ghost

“Like A Star” in Sluts, Dopamine (2024)—Autofiction about the time I have a hot 72-hour affair in Vienna (Michelle Tea asks for “unvarnished queer lives” and I deliver).

“The Fiction Machine” in Enter>Text — An experimental fiction that tries to reenact the time I installed my ‘83 VW in an art gallery, turning it into a machine that forced people to live in a short story

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“The First Sarah” in O, The Oprah Magazine — Sarah from the Bible is trans, and she and Hagar have a complicated romance; Mother Nature fights with God (and loses)

“Exorcism or Eating My Twin” in Bomb Magazine — Sarah can’t decide whether to cannibalize her ex or exorcise them

“Sarahland” in Electric Literature — a young Sarah is stuck in an all-Sarah-clique in an all Jewish dorm, dreams about becoming a dolphin

“Dream Palace” in Autostraddle — Sarah goes through a surreal portal where signs come loose from their signifiers

“The Purple Epoch” in Diagram — All the humans are dead; plastic and bacteria merge and recombine to form new life

“All the Teenaged Sarahs” in Fence — Sarah cannot stop becoming different Sarahs from 90s pop culture

ESSAYS AND CONVERSATIONS

“Clement Goldberg’s Debut Novel is Horny, Queer, and Very Revolutionary” in Electric Literature - I talk to Clem about their novel of talking cats & plants plus LA flora and the dumb gay art we love

“Struggling Our Way Toward Collective Narration” in Paper Brigade - I consider the Passover Seder as the possible root of my use of first person plural narrators

“Belonging to Yourself: Chris Belcher Interviewed” in Bomb - I talk to Chris about sex work writing, queer coming of age stories, and making homes in Southern California

“Femme Freedom on Film: On Daisies, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, and Twinning” in Lit Hub - I write about what is possible for two girls, together

“Shaking Something Loose” in Bomb - Gina Abelkop talks to me about Sarahland, poly-vocality, ecological and surreal writing, and our friendship, & we say “like” a lot

“I am Jenny Schecter, Please Love Me” in Weird Sister - It’s impossible to parse whether the universal attitude toward TV’s most hated lesbian is anti-semitic but I am here for her epigenetic identity crisis and klezmer strip tease

OtherPpl Epidode - I talk about cheerleading and the Cyborg Manifesto

Skylight Books Podcast Series — I talk to my friend and icon Nikki Darling and it probably goes off the rails

JWA Podcast — I talk to Professor Helene Myers who is extremely smart and cool, and compares me to Angela Carter :D

Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life — A group of writers chat about writing and life in the pandemic

Sinister Wisdom: Genealogies of Jewish Lesbian Novels — I talk to Sarah Schulman, Judith Katz, and Ellen Galford

“Entering Sarahland: A Conversation with Sam Cohen” in Jewish Book Council — JBC talks to me about writing/unwriting Jewish stories

“Sam Cohen Interviewed by Raki Kopernik” in Mayday Magazine — Raki and I talk about queer Jewish writing

“Centering the ‘land’ in Sarahland” in Split Lip Magazine - Wendy Oleson and I talk about queer ecology, New Narrative, and writing

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape Culture” in Delirious Hem — I talk about why it took me a decade to use the term “rape” when it obviously was

“The Nuclear Family / The Nuclear Bomb: Revisiting Kate Zambreno’s O Fallen Angel in Trump America” in Weird Sister - review of one of my favorites on its re-release into a different world