Publications & More
Literary Recognition
Alta Journal’s Top Book Reviews of 2023
Alta Journal’s Top Book Reviews of 2021
Pushcart Prize Nominations, Air/Light Magazine and Unfortunately, Literary Magazine (2021)
Artist in Residence, The Studios of Key West (Spring 2019)
Yefe Nof California Writing Residency (Spring 2018)
Fellow, Ucross Foundation Residency (Spring 2014)
Judge, Los Angeles Times Book Prizes — Fiction & First Fiction (2013-2014)
Panel Moderator, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (2011-2022)
Creative Writing
Mirror or Prism, and Other Questions to Frame Your Memoir — CoAuthored by Foster
Everything for Two: Chris Daley on The White Stripes’ “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself” — March Faxness Tournament 2022
Hateful Things: Los Angeles 2021 — Essay Daily Advent Calendar
This Frantic Bounty — Air/Light Magazine
Let the Right One In: Manifesting Your Soulmate — Unfortunately, Literary Magazine
Unknocked — Front Porch Journal
The Tunnel of Love — Cease, Cows
How to Love Los Angeles — Angels Flight • literary west
Thoughts on Time After Viewing Christian Marclay's "The Clock"
Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction
(W.W. Norton, 2015)
The Rupture, formerly The Collagist (Issue 50, September 2013)
Spark — DUM DUM Zine
Most Bones Get Buried — FORTH Magazine
Beneath the Sea: A Fable — Crony (Issue 1)
Academic Writing
Contributor, The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison
Contributor, Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing
Contributor, Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire
A Rocky Road to Posterity: The Publication of Zora Neale Hurston
“Who Do You Follow?”: The Search for Salvation in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust
Ghastly Confidences: War and Transgression in Sylvia Townsend Warner's "A Love Match"
The "Atrocious Privilege": Bearing Witness to War and Atrocity in O’Brien, Levi, and Remarque
Book Reviews
Alta Journal
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Stephen Graham Jones)
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood (Gail Crowther)
The Last Fire Season (Manjula Martin)
Rouge (Mona Awad)
Open Throat (Henry Hoke)
The Flutter of an Eyelid (Myron Brinig)
Acid for the Children (Flea)
Me & Mr. Cigar (Gibby Haynes)
Book Reviews
Los Angeles Review of Books
Book Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature (Meredith Maran)
An Untamed State (Roxane Gay)
Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways (Evelyn McDonnell)
If Trouble Don't Kill Me: A Family's Story of Brotherhood, War, and Bluegrass (Ralph Berrier)
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House (Meghan Daum)
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us (Steve Almond)
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (Peter Terzian)
Will You Take Me as I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period (Michelle Mercer)
Vacation (Deb Olin Unferth)
Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles (Chip Jacobs & William Kelly)
Best of the Web 2008 (Dzanc Books)
Brown Acres: An Intimate History of the Los Angeles Sewer System (Anna Sklar)
Miscellaneous
For Art’s Sake: An Interview with Scott O’Connor — Alta: Journal of Alta California
Literary Borough #13: Los Angeles — Ploughshares Blog
Meeting of the Minds: A Profile of Scott Fraser — Trojan Family Magazine (USC)
"What It Might Look Like to Manipulate Time": An Interview with Chris Daley — The Collagist Blog
Photography
Finalist, Los Angeles Assembly District 43 Photography Competition (2019)
“Salton Sea” (cover, issue 10), “No Diving,” “Danger Reality Ahead” — Air/Light Magazine
"Hanging Bear 1, 3, 5" — Print Oriented Bastards
"A.P.T." — Angels Flight • literary west
"Ballin Mural" — FORTH Magazine
"Salvation Mountain" — Redivider
"Figure Warehouse" — Gesture Literary Journal
"Black Cat at Danzig's House" — Bartleby Snopes
"Occupy LA Library" — Los Angeles Review of Books Blog
Literary Event Coverage
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2012 — California as a Novel Backdrop
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2012 — Novels and the Dream Deferred
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2011 — L.A. Times Book Prize Winner Jennifer Egan and Other Fiction Writers Debate the Boundaries of Form
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2011 — Susan Straight and Novelists Examine the Cultural Fallout of 'Those Who Stay and Those Who Leave'
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2010 — Rebooting Culture
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2010 — Bret Easton Ellis
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2010 — Carol Burnett
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2009 — Fiction: Closing Time
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2009 — Publishing: The Big Picture
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2009 — Fiction: The Writer's Ear
Postmodernism Month @ Jacket Copy: What Does Postmodern Mean, Anyway?
Other Press Mentions
Leah Dieterich Talks About Monogamy, iChats, and the Leap to Memoir (The Millions)
12 Can't-Miss Panels At This Weekend's Festival Of Books (LAist)
Writing Workshops LA: Beware of Dog! (LitHub)
The Art of the Short Story Panel, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 2015 (Alysia Gonzales)
Academic Alternatives: The DIY MFA (Poets & Writers)