Essays and Interviews by Elle
2024
The American Bimbo as a Site of Spiritual Struggle, Post45 Contemporaries, (Essay) May 2024
Artist and Filmmaker Cristine Brache on Holding Yourself to a Higher Standard, The Creative Independent, September 2024
Writer Kimberly King Parsons on Paying Attention to What Works Best For You, The Creative Independent, August 2024
Katie Jean Shinkle and Steven Dunn: On Writing a Novel Together, Challenging Dominant Narratives of Otherness With Pure Joy, and How Writing Is Informed by Place, Write or Die Magazine, March 2024
2023
The Return of Bret Easton Ellis, The Spectator, January 2023
Orwells, a place to get away from it all, The Spectator, December 2023
Blake Butler: ‘I don’t want this story to end as “Molly killed herself”’, The Spectator, December 2023
Screenwriter, Director and Actor Robbie Banfitch on Achieving Goals Without Compromise, The Creative Independent, December 2023
Independent Publisher and Game Designer Seven Dane Asmund on Building Slowly, The Creative Independent, October 2023
Industrial Designer Ti Chang on Creating Your Own Opportunities, The Creative Independent, May 2023
Poet and Writer Lauren Milici on Being Your Own Cheerleader, The Creative Independent, March 2023
Author Allie Rowbottom on Believing in Yourself and Your Work, The Creative Independent, January 2023
2022
Game Designer Matt Fantastic on Not Losing Sight of What You Love To Do, The Creative Independent, December 2022
Writer and Photographer Tall Milk on Processing Trauma Through Your Art, The Creative Independent, December 2022
Poet and Performer Janaka Stucky on Using Ritual to Guide Your Work, The Creative Independent, November 2022
Visual Artist Penny Goring on the Unpredictability of the Creative Process, The Creative Independent, October 28, 2022
Publisher Margot Atwell on Getting Your Work Out Into The World, The Creative Independent, October 2022
Sasha Grey on Being True to Yourself, The Creative Independent, July 2022
Marya Hornbacher, author of Wasted, on Not Being Afraid to Follow Your Own Path, The Creative Independent, June 2022
Michelin Star Chef Graeme Cheevers on Doing What Gets You Out of Bed in the Morning, The Creative Independent, May 2022
2021
Atticus Lish on Doing What it Takes to Finish the Work, The Creative Independent, December 2021
Television Writer and Producer Sera Gamble on Diving into What Scares You, The Creative Independent, October 2021
Ben Fama on On Learning From What You Create, The Creative Independent, October 2021
Kate Zambreno Talks Writing as a Mother Under Capitalism, Observer, August 2021
Jackie Ess on Making Work That Doesn’t Fit Neatly Into Categories, The Creative Independent, July 2021
Gordon Lish on Maintaining Your Focus, Interview, The Creative Independent, June 2021.
B. R. Yeager on Creating New Forms to Contain New Worlds, Interview, The Creative Independent, February 2021
Shy Watson on Writing What’s True to Your Experience, Interview, The Creative Independent, January 2021
2020
Despair is a Second Contagion: An Interview with Elisa Gabbert, Interview, Hazlitt, October 2020.
Vanessa Vaselka on Realizing You Can’t Quit, Interview, The Creative Independent, September 2020.
TRL - Twitter Interviews Lindsay Lerman. Video Interview, HTMLGIANT, September 2020.
Bring The Inward Outward: Talking with Greg Mania, Interview, The Rumpus, August 2020
Blake Butler on Writing the Thing No One Else Can Write, Interview, The Creative Independent, July 2020
Projecting Desires: An Interview with Sarah Gerard, Bomb Magazine, July 2020
Writing Advice from Metal Songs, Lit Reactor, May 2020
Interrupted Reading, Believer Magazine, April 2020 (compiled by Michael Seidlinger)
‘Go to Where the Rawest Stories Occur’: An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk, Hazlitt, January 2020
2019
Spy in the House of Anaïs Nin: An Interview with Kim Krizan, Hobart Pulp, October 2019
Writing Under Duress: How to Persevere When Your Life, Job, Kids Are Also a Priority, Lit Reactor, October 2019
Should We Care Whether Writing is Therapy? Lit Reactor, July 2019
What Joy Williams and Denis Johnson Can Teach Us About the Art of First Sentences, Lit Reactor, June 2019
Things to Do in Denver When You’re a Disaffected Millennial - Bookanista, May 2019
2018
How Time in the Woods Helped Me Reset My Life - LitHub (essay), June 2018
Tunneling Out: An Interview with Tao Lin - Hobart (interview) May 2018
Extreme Damage: Elle Nash on Harmony Korine’s KIDS - drDOCTOR (Essay), April 2018.
2017
How Pregnancy Triggered the Return of My Eating Disorder - Vitamin Shoppe (Essay).
Dreamworlds: An Excerpt of Bruja and Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz - Hobart Pulp (Interview).
Daytime is The Greatest: An Interview with Bud Smith & Rae Buleri - Hobart Pulp (Interview).
Grief Lozenge - The Fanzine (Essay).
2016
I Won’t Feel Ashamed of Getting Lip Fillers - Cosmopolitan (Essay).
On Beauty: The Year I Sprayed Fake Tan on Rich Women for Money - Hobart (Essay).
2015
Anger is Never Just Anger: An Interview with Sarah Gerard - Hobart
Swinging Upside Down - Human Parts (Essay)
2014
The Story You Made of Me: An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch - Lit Reactor
Skin Underneath the Skin - NAILED Magazine (Essay)
The Thing I’m Scared of Most - Exterminating Angel Press (Essay)
Uncollected Prose
(you can find the rest in NUDES!)
2024
TAU - Sleepingfish XX, Calamari Archive (Fiction) January 2024 (print only)
2023
Always, the feeling of needing to rush back… - Polaris, Issue 1 (Poetry) November 2023 (print only) commissioned by Janette Ayachi as part of Edinburgh Park residency
Bassarids - SNACK Magazine, (Poetry) November 2023 (print only)
2022
artGOD - Children of the New Flesh Anthology edited by Chris Kelso and David Leo Rice (Poetry) June 2022 (print only)
Rosehead - Los Suelos Fiction Anthology (Fiction) March 2022
2021
Gloves - Columbia Journal (Fiction) December 2021
A Deep Well - Southwest Review (Fiction) April 2021 (print only)
2020
Thank You, Lauren Greenfield - HARSH Mag (Fiction) August 2020
published as “Grazie, Lauren Greenfield” in Italian At Split Rivista
2018
Prize - The Nervous Breakdown (Fiction), December 2018
Grace - Guernica (Fiction), October 2018
Room Service - New York Tyrant Magazine (Fiction), September 2018; published as “Servizio in Camera” in Italian at Pidgin Edizioni
community property - Wohe Lit Issue 2 (prose/hybrid), June 2018
Excerpt of Animals Eat Each Other on Lit Hub, April 2018.
Anatomy of a Distance - X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (Fiction) March 2018.
Excerpt of Animals Eat Each Other on Talking Book, March 2018.
2017
Me and the Flies - Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Fiction) September 10, 2017.
AVOKA - Ghost City Press Summer Microchap Series (Fiction, Short Stories).
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There are Different Kinds of Needles - Hypertext Magazine (Fiction) Print only.
Three Poems - Reality Beach.
The Wasp - Blunderbuss Magazine (Fiction)
Cling - Alien Mouth (Fiction, Fall Quarterly Print Issue) (DEFUNCT)
Anatomy of a Mouth - Enclave (Fiction)
A Partial List of the People I’ve Blocked on Facebook - Hobart (Fiction)
Response Column: Alone. The Last Safe Space - NAILED Magazine (Fiction)
Two Poems - Blue Skirt Productions (DEFUNCT)