Lisa Locascio Nighthawk is the chair of the Antioch MFA and the executive director of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in Alta, The Believer, The New York Times, and Electric Literature. Her first novel, Open Me, was published by Grove Atlantic in 2018. She writes a newsletter called Not Knowing How.
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk
Articles
Seeing in the Half-Light
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Rachel Kushner’s divisive new novel, “Creation Lake”—much of the commentary around which feels “personal.”
Every Woman Extends Backwards: On Alexis Landau’s “The Mother of All Things”
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Alexis Landau’s “The Mother of All Things.”
Her Beehive Heart: On Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters”
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story.”
Experimenting on Faith: Ryan McIlvain's "Elders"
Inlaid with darkness and violence, Elders is the story of disaffected young men’s machinations towards adulthood through the apparatus of the Church.
My Bolaño Archive
A Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s “The Sad Passions”
Waking from the Dream of Alaska
For Melinda Moustakis, Alaska is not a region of the imagination; it is a bracingly real place.
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