LA Review of Books recently published my Q&A with Irish novelist Sara Baume, which includes lots of beautiful images of Baume’s work, along with the photographic variants between editions of A Line Made by Walking.  Check it out!  

My publication about H.D.’s needleworks in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. Abstract: H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) maintained a longstanding interest in the material and artistic history of needlework, a practice that helped her conceptualize, theorize, and overcome traumatic wartime experiences. This essay presents, for the first time, an archive of H.D.’s needlework and demonstrates…

Dr. Amy Elkins: The Craft of Survival talk at the American Craft Council Library Salon Series March 8, 2017, 7pm Minneapolis, MN < Information about the talk > < Five Questions Salon Edition with Dr. Amy Elkins > < Interview: The Craft of Survival >

“’Making Splendid Things’: The Potter’s Wheel Online Archive” is a digital archive collection focused on the lives and works of the Potters, a women’s art collective that created a handmade, multimedia magazine.  This group of early-20th century women writers, artists, and designers lived and worked in St. Louis, Missouri.  This site aims to do three…