I’m a fiction writer and freelance critic from New Jersey. I work as an editor in academic communications and have published book reviews in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Previously, I covered books and culture at the Forward.
Criticism
On Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child and Irene Solá’s I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2026
On Jessica Francis Kane’s Fonseca, Washington Post, 2025
On Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection, Words Without Borders, 2025
On Laurent Binet’s Perspectives, Washington Post, 2025
On Claire Baglin’s On the Clock, the Drift, 2025
On Michelle de Kretser’s Theory and Practice, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2025
On Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024
On Jessica Shattuck’s Last House, Washington Post, 2024
On Elizabeth O’Connor’s Whale Fall, Chicago Review of Books, 2024
On Lily Meyer’s Short War, New Lines Magazine, 2024
On Molly Lynch’s The Forbidden Territory, Electric Literature, 2023
Interviews
With Téa Obreht, Electric Literature, 2024
With Raja Shehadeh, the Forward, 2023
With Julia Fine, the Millions, 2023
With James McBride, the Forward, 2023
Fiction
“The Artist,” Pembroke Magazine, 2025 (print)
“Brats,” Four Way Review, 2024
Irene Katz Connelly 