Short Fiction

  1. Can You Forgive Me?
    TriQuarterly (January 15, 2022, issue #161)
  2. The Next Day and the Days Ever After
    McSweeney's (September 3, 2019, issue #57)
  3. The Basement
    The Rumpus (Octoboer 17, 2018)
  4. The Beginning of Me
    Shondaland An excerpt from Invitation to a Bonfire (June 5, 2018)
  5. Her Beautiful Body
    Strange Horizons (Feb 5, 2018)
  6. Pitter Patter
    The Harvard Advocate (Summer 2017)
  7. The Weight
    Cartridge Lit (October 10, 2016)
  8. Excerpt from "The Daughters"
    Tucson Weekly cover story (August 4, 2016)
  9. Big Boss Bitch
    ZYZZYVA (Fall 2016)
  10. Dear Clarice
    Ecotone (Spring 2016)
  11. Temples
  12. Possession
    Carve Magazine (January 15, 2016)
  13. Lulu
    Electric Literature's Recommended Reading (July 29, 2015)
  14. The Girls They Burned
    Prairie Schooner (July 2015)
  15. Go Back
    The Kenyon Review (January 2015)
  16. Temples
    EPOCH (December 2014)
  17. You were there, and so was I, once
    Anthropoid Collective (Fauna Issue) (December 2014)
  18. The Boy with the Open Mind
    storySouth (September 15, 2014)
  19. The Exhibition
    MonkeyBicycle (April 11, 2014)
  20. The Rain
    Puerto del Sol (Fall 2013)
  21. The Dimensions of the Anomaly
    Blackbird (May 5, 2014)
  22. In Deep
    Gargoyle Magazine (Summer 2013)
  23. Imaginary Poet: Aislara Pinzón
    Yew Journal (March 1, 2013)
  24. Classroom
    The Southeast Review (October 2012)
  25. The Eternal Youth of Everyone Else
    Carve Magazine (June 2012)
  26. In Pursuit of Lost Time
    Esquire.com (December 16, 2011)

    Finalist in the 2011 Esquire Magazine/Aspen Writers’ Foundation Short Short Fiction Contest (selected from 4,000+ entries by Colum McCann).

Essays

  1. Letter of Recommendation: You Need a Horror Movie Friend for a More Frightening, Less Lonely Life
    The New York Times Magazine (June 14, 2022)
  2. What Will Leave You
    In Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond, ed. Halimah Marcus (Harper Perennial) (August 3, 2021)
  3. Is Your Idea Better Suited to a Novel or a Short Story?
    Catapult "Don't Write Alone/Notes on Craft" (June 22, 2021)
  4. "I was worried that no one would see me; that they would only see a wife": On a John Singer Sargent painting and Marrying Young
    Catapult (June 12, 2018)
  5. Toothless: On the Dentist, Powerlessness, and Pnin
    The Paris Review Daily (June 11, 2018)
  6. On the Pain of Breaking Up with My Old Apartment
    Lit Hub (June 6, 2018)
  7. People Ask Me To Write About Horses
    Tin House Open Bar (June 5, 2018)
  8. Vladimir Nabokov Taught Me To Be a Feminist
    Electric Literature (June 4, 2018)
  9. Midnight in the Garden of Women
    Vol. 1 Brooklyn (April 5, 2017)
  10. The Writer is In
    Catapult (October 31, 2016)
  11. Tax Advice from a Debut Novelist
    Electric Literature (February 2016)
  12. Her Ambitions
    Research Notes for Necessary Fiction (January 2016)
  13. Badass Women of Polish Mythology: The Rusalka
    LitHub (August 7, 2015)
  14. Two Truths and a Lie
    Tin House Open Bar (August 4, 2015)
  15. The Meaning of the Moon: On Family and Addiction
    The Butter (February 23, 2015)
  16. One of Us is a Mystery: Marilynne Robinson and the Cosmology of Perdition
    Tin House Open Bar (December 2014)
  17. Literary Boroughs #56: Tucson
    Ploughshares Blog (October 8, 2014)
  18. Dedication through destruction: Thoughts on writing practice
    Blackbird (July 11, 2014)
  19. The Unmade House
    The Rumpus (July 8, 2013)

Translation

  1. Rivers
    Cerise Press (Spring 2013)

    Excerpted from the Russian novel by Evgeny Grishkovets.

Reviews

  1. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
    Bookslut (October 2015)
  2. Find Me by Laura Van Den Berg
    Bookslut (May 2015)
  3. A Little Night Music: On Marie-Helene Bertino’s 2 A.M. At the Cat’s Pajamas
    The Millions (August 13, 2014)
  4. Adrienne Celt on Jocelyne Saucier
    Lemon Hound (June 6, 2013)
  5. Those Song Lyrics I Always Mishear
    300 Reviews (November 8, 2012)
  6. Exiles and Eccentricities: Goldie Goldbloom’s The Paperbark Shoe
    The Huffington Post (January 14, 2011)
  7. War and Pieces: A Review of Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows
    The Huffington Post (July 27, 2009)
  8. Pitch Black: Paul Auster's Man in the Dark
    The Huffington Post (Sept 23, 2008)
  9. Burn, Baby, Burn: An Emotionally-Biased Reflection on Incinerating Nabokov’s Last Manuscript
    The Huffington Post (June 19, 2008)
  10. A Reader's Second Wind
    The Huffington Post (May 28, 2008)

Interviews

  1. Book Q&A with Adrienne Celt about Invitation to a Bonfire
    Deborah Kalb Books (June 6, 2018)
  2. What Makes Me Catch My Breath: Erika Swyler in Conversation with Adrienne Celt
    The Millions (June 4, 2018)
  3. Questions of Legacy: Talking with Adrienne Celt
    The Rumpus (June 4, 2018)
  4. ASU MFA Alumna Finds Success as an Author
    ASU Now (April 6, 2018)
  5. Tiny Spills
    Cosmonauts Avenue (Winter 2016)
  6. To Defeat the Devil: A Conversation with Adrienne Celt
    Cartridge Lit (March 14, 2017)
  7. The Inheritance of Trauma: Q&A with Adrienne Celt and Esmé Weijun Wang
    ZYZZYVA blog (June 2016)
  8. "So You Wanna Win a Book Prize?" Interview with Adrienne Celt
    Prairie Schooner (November 2015)
  9. Book Q&A with Adrienne Celt about The Daughters
    Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb (August 11, 2015)
  10. Scary Baby Stories: An Interview with Adrienne Celt
    Electric Literature (July 30, 2015)
  11. Contributor Spotlight: Adrienne Celt
    The Southeast Review (Spring 2015)
  12. Q&A with Adrienne Celt
    Carve Magazine (November 30, 2014)
  13. Adrienne Celt Talks About Her First Novel, Comics, and Feminism
    Gazing Grain Press (June 30, 2014)
  14. Katherine Rochester invites Adrienne Celt
    Concept Plus Object: Possible Projects (September 24, 2012)
  15. Translation in the Literary Journal
    The Missouri Review Blog (October 21, 2011)

Miscellaneous

  1. Playlist for Invitation to a Bonfire
    Largehearted Boy (June 5, 2018)
  2. Interview with Mairead Case
    Bookslut (September 2015)
  3. If My Book
    MonkeyBicycle (August 11, 2015)
  4. An Interview with Katie Coyle, Author of Vivian Apple at the End of the World
    The Butter (November 21, 2014)
  5. The Undead
    The Toast (September 18, 2014)

    With apologies to James Joyce.

  6. The Fiction of Haruki Murakami
    Hayden's Ferry Review (Spring 2012)

    Interview with translator Jay Rubin.