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)
2022 — Discover — An Eye for Ants
2021 — Longreads — Doctors Without Patients: The Eritrean Physicians Stuck in American Licensing Limbo
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
2020 — Elle Magazine — Resettling As A Refugee During A Global Pandemic
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
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
2012 — Penn Review — Still Life
2012 — The Daily Pennsylvanian — Exclusive Interview: Junot Diaz on writing, Yunior and books that make him angry
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"
"Why We Chose It" — Kirsten Reach's editor's note about "The Forgetting Diary"
2018 — Hypertext — "The Clique Gospels"
2017 — PANK — "The Dry Season"
2017 — American Short Fiction — "Between the Shores"
"Web Exclusive Interview" — Erin McReynolds interviews Shoshana about "Between the Shores"
2017 — Hoot — "Corpuscle"
2016 — The Grief Diaries — "Good & Kind"
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)
2019 — DoubleSpeak — "I" (Origin. Rachel Bluwstein)
2017 — Flash: International Short-Short Story Magazine — "Purity" (Origin. Inbar Livnat)
REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
2024 — Electric Literature — "For Ledia Xhoga, “What If…” Became a Debut Novel"
(Interview with writer, Ledia Xhoga)
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’"
2020 — Hippocampus — "Review of ‘The Magical Language of Others’"
2018 — Europe Now — "Review of ‘Bees of the Invisible’"
Select Awards & Honors
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2020 - American Literary Translators Association Conference Fellowship
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2020 - National Geographic Foundation COVID Reporting Grant
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2019 - The Bishop J.R.H. Moorman Research Fellowship at Gladstone’s Library
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2019 - Jentel Foundation Fellowship
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2019 - Awesome Project Grant Recipient
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2018 - Columbia University Dean’s Travel Grant Recipient
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2018 - The Pollination Project Grant Recipient
- 2018 - Columbia University Fiction Teaching Fellowship