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Other Writing

selected works

Nonfiction:

If Words Could Dance,” Writer’s Digest, October 2024

Ballerina Farm and the ways dancers embrace their life after hanging up their pointe shoes,” Salon, August 2024

The Choreography of a Friendship,” Pangyrus, July 2023

Break Through,” Bellingham Review, Spring 2023

Mom Reflects on Micro-Preemie Twins’ Tumultuous Beginning.” Vitals, January 2023

The Shine Inside,” Santa Fe Writers Project, December 2022

Dancing on the Blade,” Under the Sun, May 2021
Recipient of the 2021 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Award for Nonfiction and the 2022 New Millennium Award for Nonfiction

Breaking Character,” Longridge Review, January 2021

Dreaming of a New Nutcracker,” Zócolo Public Square, December 24, 2020

"The Last Innocent Moment," New Ohio Review, December 2020

Sawed,” Burningwood Literary Journal, October 2020

"Fictional Bodies,” Soundings East, Salem State University, July 2020

"Smooth Sales," Publishers Weekly, February 2020

"Memoir as a Flower Arrangement," Writer's Digest, March, 2020

"Poke,” Redivider, December, 2019

"Tiny Rituals," Mothers Always Write, October 2019

“Fully Aware,” Multiples Illuminated, November 2018

Fiction:

Limelight,” Santa Fe Writers Project, Spring 2023

Narrowly,” Jet Fuel Review, Issue 25, Spring 2023

Recordings

Intermission,” excerpt from Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home
Recording begins at 51:50
13th Annual Motherhood & Words with Kate Hopper, April 2019

To Dance!” KQED Perspectives, December 2014

Interviews

A Conversation with Janine Kovac,” by Marianne Lonsdale, Literary Mama, March 2019

IndieView with Janine Kovac,” IndieView, November 2017

videos

 

rehearsing for the Follies at the Community of Writers, summer 2016

IMG DESCR: close-up of dancer putting on white pointe shoes
photo credit: Ian Tuttle


“A Night at the Nutcracker” - Legerdemain for National Flash Fiction Day anthology

IMG DESCR: dancer with lipstick at makeup table
photo courtesy of the author


Listen To Your Mother San Francisco 2016

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photo credit: Ian Tuttle


Interview with Memoirs with Melissa: @WriteroftheWeek


 
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