Essays + Articles

Essays & Articles

• Why Some Women Wield Exclusion Like A Superpower, Scary Mommy, Dec. 2020
• The Parenting Break: Finding Your Way Back to Literary Citizenship, Writer’s Digest, Nov. 2020
• Fearless Writing Advice from Fiction’s Most Fearful Protagonist, Career Authors, Nov. 2020
• Reentry: An Author + Parent’s Guide to Reentering the Writerly World in 19 Literary Terms, Writer Unboxed, Nov. 2020
• My Book, The Movie, Marshal Zeringue’s blog, Nov. 2020
• Author Interview, Marshal Zeringue’s Author Interviews blog, Nov. 2020
• The Page 69 Test, Marshal Zeringue’s blog, Nov. 2020
• Resilience and Inventiveness in the Face of Uncertainty, Writer’s Digest, Nov. 2020
• Good Literary Citizenship: Finding My Way Back, Women Writers, Women[’s] Books
• Making Magic: Mastering the Art of Magic Realism, Writer’s Digest
• Saving the Bird, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment
• With Child, The Manifest-Station
• In China, a baby breaks the language barrier, Christian Science Monitor
• On the Ranch, Bluestem
• Writers Recommend, Poets & Writers Magazine

Short Stories

• Cherries Jubilee, Hypertext Magazine

Video

• Kristin Bair O’Keeffe talks about her debut novel Thirsty, Pittsburgh at the turn of the twentieth century, steel-making, her home in Shanghai, China, and the inspiration of place in her writing process.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette book editor Bob Hoover talks with Kristin Bair O’Keeffe, author of Thirsty, a novel set in the 19th century in a gritty steel town on the slopes above the Monongahela River just outside of Pittsburgh.