My Writing

“My Grief Is a Student of the Humanities,” Mid-American Review 38:1, Winter 2017 (runner-up in the Fineline Competition)
“Monuments,” Full Grown People, November 9, 2017
“Soft Spot,” Beautiful Things column, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, October 30, 2017
“The Suck,” Tin House Online, October 25, 2017
“Auteur,” Hippocampus Magazine, April 1, 2016
“The 781 Days,” Mutha Magazine, September 17, 2015
“The Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card,” Full Grown People, March 12, 2015 (named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016)
“Running Late,” Readers Write column, The Sun, January 2014 (scroll to the bottom!)
“Not So Gladly Teach,” in Moving On: Essays on the Aftermath of Leaving Academia [the whole anthology is available on Kindle here], Kathleen Miller, Julie Cmiel, Lauren Whitehead, Jet, eds., 2014
“Dyad,” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, May 2008
“Will That Child Step Off the Screen and Into Our Lives?” Modern Love column, The New York Times, October 8, 2006
“On Not Liking Kim Chee,” The North American Review, November/December 2005

“Election Candidates Aren’t ‘The Same,'” Iowa City Press-Citizen, October 6, 2016
Introduction/Liner Notes (co-written with Kembrew McLeod), For Kids and By Kids (children’s music CD), 2015
“Recent Memoir: Butterscotch, Black Chairs, and Breeders,” The Iowa Review, Spring 2006

Lynne Nugent