KJ Hannah Greenberg
Creative Nonfiction
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| © KJ Hannah Greenberg, 2011 |
Creative nonfiction remains a vehicle for traveling both through uncanny events and for reflecting on more ordinary ones. Although allegedly rooted in truth, essays actually are witnessing tinged by imagination.
Some Favorites:
• “Baseball Caps, Carbohydrates and Service Centers.” Mused: The Bella Online Literary Review.
• “Eating Fugu: Getting Texts Accepted Despite Local Commotion.” Litbreak.
• “Hugs, Hearts, and Souls.” Hypnopomp.
• “Thirty-Four Years or So, Give or Take a Shoe.” Winamop.
• “Under the Influence of Children: Offsprings’ Impact on the Creative Process.” Parenting Express.
• “Writers’ Commerce and Steering Clear of Unified Communication Devices.” Pulp Metal Magazine.
Academic Journal Articles:
2009. Sep. “Abiding by Timetables (and Other Absurd Mentations Possessed by Professional Mommies).” Women in Higher Education. 27.
2006. “The Architecture of Social Stratification: A Review of Davidson’s Anything.” The American Journal of Semiotics. 22.1-4: 201-209.
2005. “An Epistemic Adventure: Tarasti’s Existential Semiotics.” The American Journal of Semiotics. 21.1-4: 92-100.
1990. “The Deficit of Research on Higher Education Instructional Communication Ethics.” The Massachusetts Journal of Communication. Springfield, MA: Communication Association of Massachusetts. 9.1: 13-17.
Current Publications:
2012. Apr. “Mommy Writer Revisited.”
2010. Aug. “Running off from Resolutions; Sidestepping Self-Sabotage.”
2012. Apr. “The Bildungsroman of a Contemporary Odysseus.”
2017. Feb. “The Necessity of Wonkiness in Writing.”
2022. Oct. “My Imaginary Friends’ Impact on My Writing.” Rpt. Granny Does It, Vol. II: A Rhetoric of Identity. Seashell Books. Bowling Green, KY. 2022. 179-181.
2022. Sep. “Some Musings on Granny Writers.” Rpt. Granny Does It, Vol. I: As Time Permits. Seashell Books. Bowling Green, KY. 2022. and “Granny Writers.” “Word Citizen.” The Jerusalem Post. 11 Apr. 2018.
2021. Aug. “All Manner of Sunshine.” Rpt. from Natural Jewish Parenting. Sep. 2011, and from Sweet and Sour: Womanly Thoughts. Seashell Books. Bowling Green, KY. 2021. 9-11.
2020. Oct. “Making Waters.” Rpt. “Got Children? Add Water.” The Mother Magazine. Nov. 2010. 20-21. Rpt. as “Making Waters.” The Nexus of the Sun, the Moon, and Mother. Seashell Books. Bowling Green, KY. 2020. 127-130. Rpt. Smiling and Nodding with Alacrity. Seashell Books. Bowling Green, KY. 2020. 99-102.
2020. Apr. “Boys’ Dolls, Matchmaking, and Kitten’s Play: A Slice of Strife.” Rpt. The Nexus of the Sun, the Moon, and Mom. Seashell Books, 2020.
2019. Jun. “Parenting’s Little Smiles. ” Bewildering Stories. Rpt. Whistling for Salvation. Seashell Books. 2019. 102-105.
2018. Apr. “Units of Exchange.” Rpt. Seashell Books. 2018. 205-207. Rpt. The Best is Yet to Be. Miriam Liebermann. Ed. Targum. 2011. 36-38. Rpt. Mishpacha Magazine’s Family First. Feb. 20, 2008.
2018. Apr. “I Wanna be a Model.” Rpt. The Jerusalem Post. Feb. 2018. Rpt Tosh: Select Trash and Bosh of Creative Writing. Crooked Cat Books, 2017. Rpt. Vortice. Jul. 2
2015. Oct. “Pulp: Literature’s Costume Jewelry.” rpt. from Word Citizen. Tailwinds Press, Sep. 2015.
2013. Dec. “The Need for Staid Midlife Moms to Write Bizarro Texts.”
2012. Mar. “Compassion for Editors: The Color of August Pumpkins.”
bioStories.
2014. Jan. “The Name My Parents Didn’t Use.”
2011. Dec. “Perimenopause and Scanned Documents.”
2012. Aug. “Writers’ Responsibilities.”
2015. May. “Days of Milk and Honey.”
2010. Apr. “Incorporation.”
Chabad.org.
2010. Mar. “To Beeswax or Not to Beeswax: How to Make Shabbot.” Stories of Return.
2010. Apr. “Timon Cat: A Friend’s Decline.”
2010. Feb. “Weeding.”
2009. Jul. “Mama’s Little Boy’s Unwanted Opinion.” 3.28:6-7.
2009. Dec. “Mommy Writer.”
2010. Nov. “Tree Fruits and Gym Nuts.” 6-9.
2010. Nov. “Stone Women Groove Park Geese.”
2009. Feb. “The Russians.” Rpt. from The Jerusalem Post.
2008. Aug. “Cell Phones, Electronic Gates Keys and Automatic Automobile Key Pads.” Rpt. from The Jerusalem Post.
Fallopian Falafel.
2010. Sep. “Of Kitchens, Conventions and Other 'Cookery.'” 10-13.
2010. Sep. “Channie’s Vegetable Soup.” 32.
2010. Jun. “Book Publishing as a Seemingly Random Creative Act.” 13:19-22.
2010. Feb. “Breasts, Earlobes, and Belly Buttons.” 28-30.
2010. Feb. “Busted: Rhetorically Out-of-Order.” 40-41.
2009. May. “Confusing Exploitation and Affection.” 15-17.
2009. Feb. “That Fibromuscular Tubular Track.” 7:9-11.
2008. Summer. “Lice.” 5: 22-23. Rpt. from The Jerusalem Post.
2012. Mar. “Working Stiff.”
2014. Dec. “Pleasure from Dangerous Reptiles Slithering under Trailer Homes.”
2018. Apr. “Qualia.” Rpt. The Jerusalem Post. Nov. 21, 2017.
2021. Jul. “Bleary-Eyed While Fired Up.”
2012. Apr. “Writing As More than Bridges.” 30-31.
2015, May. “My F-Word.” 116-118.
2012. May. “Editor-at-Large Swims Up.” 93-95.
2008. Jul. 02. “I Can Almost.” Israeli Edition. C10. Also, July 17. American Edition. C36.
2010. Jan. “A Brief Span.” 47.
2009. Nov. “The Ringing.” 19.
2010. Dec. “Driving Attitudes.” 12-14.
2020. Aug. “Hugs, Hearts, and Souls.”
Jerusalem Post, The.
2011. May.“Midlife: More Funny than Frightening.”
2010. Jun. “The Pleasantness of Teenagers.” Guest Blog.
2012. Mar. “The Contemporary Short Story Market.”
2009. Feb. “Negotiating with a Kitten.”
2010. Dec. “Homing Instincts.”
Kindred.
2012. Mar. “Evolving Maternal Identity.”
2010. Mar. “Boys’ Dolls, Matchmaking and Kitten’s Play: A Slice of Strife.”
2011. Dec. “That Fibromuscular Tubular Track.” 34-35. Rpt. from Fallopian Falafel. Feb. 2009, 9-11.
2016. Sep. “My Serial Husbands.”
2012. Feb. “Mt. Laundry.”
2011. Oct. “This Week’s Version of Land and Sea,” and “Gotcha: One Professors’ Impact on a Cadre of Students.”
2011. Apr. “Sons, Daughters, and Sundry Other Celestial Bodies.”
2011. Feb. “Unintentionally Raising the Next Generation of Writers.”
2010. Nov. “Typicalities” and “Kill Fees, Red-Eyed Monsters, Souks and Audiences: Throwing up One’s Hands and Trudging Forward, Anyway.”
2010. Sep. “Space Squids and Editors” and “No More Brown Wrappers.”
2010. Jul. “Skirting Issues: Consumer Fashions.”
2016. Nov. “Eating Fugu: Getting Texts Accepted Despite Local Commotion.”
2017. Aug. “Immediate Reduction in Ego.”
2009. Apr. “Budding.”
2023. Sep. “A cocktail of morality and vengeance.” [sic]. Book Review.
2022. Mar. 22. “Flashback” qtd. “Units of Exchange.” Feb. 20 2008.
2008. Feb. 20. “Units of Exchange.” 30.
Mother Magazine, The.
2009. May. “No Economic Slowdown Needed for Sane Consumerism.” 20-22.
2009. Mar. “Only One Minute.” 33:30.
2008. Nov. “Some Bits Sometimes: Well Parenting.” 31:31.
2008. Apr. “Afar and Beyond: Another Time, Another Place.”
2009. Sep. “Baseball Caps, Carbohydrates and Service Centers.”
2009. Jun. “Linoleum and Larceny.”
2009. May. “The Heuristic Value of Name-calling.” Rpt. from The Jerusalem Post.
2011. Nov. “Welcoming Kids Back Home.”
2011. Oct. “A Spoonful of Vinegar is the Medicine that Goes Down.”
2011. Sep. “All Manners of Sunshine.”
2011. Jun. “A Bushel of Tomatoes: Just Another Way to Say 'I Love You.' ”
Parenting Express.
2014. Nov. “Mother’s Mother.”
2010. Dec. “Under the Influence of Children: Offsprings’ Impact on the Creative Process.”
2010. Apr. “A Galloping Mommy Writer: Putting the Pieces into Perspective.”
2008. Nov. “Martial Family Arts: Computers, Reptile Research and Shooting the Moon.”
2015. Nov. “G-d from the Machine.”
2010. May. “Reading and Writing as a Means to Publishing ’rithmatic.”
Pulp Metal Magazine.
2011. Apr. “The Matchmaker: A Highbrow Comedy Coupling 'Brief' and ’straightforward.'”
2011. Mar. “Writers’ Commerce and Steering Clear of Unified Communication Devices.”
2015. Nov. “An Alias’ Utility.”
2015. Aug. “Oldsters’ Cri de Coures.”
2015. Jul. “Realizing I’ve Become a Grandma Writer,” “Junk vs. Joy,” “The Business World as a Tourist Destination,” and “Pluff Mud.”
2019. May. “Eating not Insulting.” rpt. Whistling for Salvation. Israel Series. Vol. IV. Seashell Books. Bowling Green, KY.
2010. Mar. “Today I Put Soap in the Bathroom: Some Particulars of (Re) Writing.”
2009. Sep. “Softness.” 2.3:43.
2010. Sep. “Running from Dust Bunnies and Other Sporting Competitions.”
2013. Jul. “A Round Peg: A Lament.”
2013. Feb. “Gravity Takes No Vacation.”
2007. Aug. “The Kindness of Strangers.” 26. Rpt. from The Jerusalem Post.
2007. Jun. “The Goat Yoghurt Story.” 12-13. Rpt. from The Jerusalem Post.
2010. May. “Plodding versus Widget Writing: Electing not to Write in Response to Changes in Publishing.”
2010. Dec. “Arab Men.” 56.
Splash of Red.
2010. Jan. “Reflections on Prejudice Lived before the Age of Convergent Media” and “The Soldiers’ Solution.”
2012. May. “Spinning, Spinning, and Then Lifting: A Response to Alice Shapiro’s 'The salve of women meeting [sic].'” Alice Shapiro. Saltian: To Dance. Unbound CONTENT 2012. 172-176. rpt. from Unbound CONTENT Bookblog. Jun. 2011.
2011. Jun. “Spinning, Spinning, and Then Lifting: A Response to Alice Shapiro’s 'The salve of women meeting [sic].'”
2010. Feb. “Acclimating.”
2014. Jul. “I Wanna be a Model.” 28-31.
2013. Nov. “Of Hedgehogs, Komodo Dragons, and Other Anthropomorphized Friends.”
2024. Aug. “CatCat's Woes.”
2023. Feb. “Audience Responsibilities.”
2023. Jan. “Protecting our Grasp of ‘Home’ and ‘Self.’”
2022. Feb. “Upon Discovering Wildlife in My Bathroom.”
2021. Oct. “The Quiet of Words.”
2018. Nov. “Change, Too, is Good.”
2018. Mar. “Thirty-Four Years or So, Give or Take a Shoe.”
2017. Aug. “Post-Teens.”
2017. Jul. “Saggy Skin’s Beauty Queen Prose.”
2017. Jun. “Beasts, Babies, Publishing, and Circuses.”
2017. Apr. “Eat the Quinoa, Not the Roast.”
2016. Mar. “Chocolate Ice Cream’s Alleged Exacerbations of Anxiety.”
2015. Jun. “Proprotionate Memories.”
2015. Apr. “Desert Writer, Poet.”
2013. Jun. “Writing, Not Making Moonshine.”
2009. Jun. “Parenting Teens after the Advent of the Internet” and “Under the Hood.” Both Rpt. from The Jerusalem Post.
Mar. 2015. “A Manifesto of Sorts.”
Feb. 2015. “Truth vs. Imagination.”