The moment I got hired by Wellesley College, I knew this was a piece I wanted to write. going to Lake Baikal in 2007 changed my life and the lives of so many other alums of the program. Read the
For the full essay, see it on The Rumpus. Originally published on November 5, 2015. — Save three stray years, I have lived in Massachusetts my entire life. It’s a small state, and running into people I know is rarely a surprise. Sitting on
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Rebecca Danos for the Wellesley Writes It series on Wellesley Underground! Post originally appeared on Wellesley Underground on August 8, 2015. -- It is an honor to converse with E.B. Bartels whose work appears extensively in
For the full essay, see it on The Butter. Originally published on January 21, 2015. — In college, I was a terrible Russian language and literature major. I never finished reading Crime and Punishment, I still haven’t touched War and Peace, and I
For the full flash nonfiction piece, see it on Cheap Pop. Originally published on September 16, 2014. --- In the red of night, I float between places. The neon sign across the street fills my dark room with a sharp scarlet light. I
Before I was a nonfiction writer in Columbia’s Graduate Writing Program, I was a student of Russian Language and Literature at Wellesley College. I started taking Russian 101 the fall of my first-year – sick of the Latin I could
For the full essay, buy a copy of the anthology The Places We've Been: Field Reports From Travelers Under 35 (The Places We've Been LLC, July 2013). --- As athletes make mix CDs to pump themselves up for games, I have a