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Cabaret community celebrates the return of a live audience
The Columbia Chronicle | online (Oct. 2022)

An 'empathetic heartbeat': Telling others' life stories
The Columbia Chronicle | online (Oct. 2022)


Columbia authors talk South Side representation
The Columbia Chronicle | online (Sept. 2022)


 A Pop of Color: Homenature Pop-Up Shop
​The Source | 
Hamptons Magazine (June 2022)

A Sense of Adventure: Longines Spirit Zulu Time
Up Front | Watches International | print (June 2022)

Blast from the Past: Behind the Palms 
The Guide | Palm Beach Magazine | print (Apr. 2022)


The 5 Best Hotels in Palm Beach
Online Feature | 
Palm Beach Magazine | online (Feb. 2022)
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 South Side Stray Strut: What's up with the cats of Pilsen?
​Feature | 
Newcity Magazine (print & online (Sept. 2019)

Short Stories
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Colorado
The Rialto Books Review | print (2023)

No Shoes 
Hypertext Magazine | print & online (2023)

When the Water Comes 
The Tusculum Review  | Winner, 2021 Fiction Prize | print (2021)

Last Stop with Louis Armstrong 
J
erry Jazz Musician | Winner, 45th Short Fiction Contest | print (2017)
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Chicken
Cicada Magazine | print (2012)

Essays

The Art of Brevity: Robert Shapard's Bare Ana
Another Chicago Magazine | online (Feb. 6, 2025)

Life's Beautiful Impermanence: Miles Harvey's The Registry of Forgotten Objects | Another Chicago Magazine | online (Oct. 31, 2024)

Novel or Stories? Author Kate Wisel on the Powerful Paradox of Linked Collections
PopMatters | online (Apr. 12, 2022)

Silence Has a Sound: The Unempty Quiet in Sound of Metal | Film | PopMatters | online (Apr. 8, 2021)

The Likability of Unlikability in Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge
PopMatters  | online (May 11, 2021)

The Martian Chronicles: A Tale of Two Apocalypses
PopMatters | online (Mar. 22, 2021)
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Revenge and (Bloody) Feminism: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman with a Mossberg 590 | "The Justice Issue" | Bright Wall/Dark Room  | online (Oct. 2020)
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 Residencies | Fellowships

Sterling Watson Fellowship
Writers in Paradise (2024)

Albert P. Weisman Award
To MASKS Literary Magazine | Albert P. Weisman Foundation (2022 & 2023)

Franz Kafka Fellowship
Summer Writers Program| Prague School of Communication (2021)

Artist-in-Residence
Aesthetics of Research | Columbia College Chicago Library (2020-2021)

Fulbright Fellowship
Adam Mickiewicz University (2012-2013)

Laura Hawbaker
Chicago, Illinois
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