“Stielstra’s essays are so masterfully done that after every one, I had to put the book down and take a breather.” —Book Riot

Essays.

An Axe for the Frozen Sea, The Believer, Story of the Year Award from the Chicago Review of Books

Channel B, The Rumpus, included in the Best American Essays

Here is My Heart, Longreads

We Are All We Have, Longreads

We Make Homes, Gay Magazine

On Awareness, Tin House

Birth Control to Outlast a Presidency, Catapult

5:45, Khôra

What Would You Grab in a Fire?, New York Times

Stand Here to Save Lives, Guernica

This Election Will Kill Me, Buzzfeed

Under Your Feet They Go on Growing, Hypertext

Professional Development, Joyland

Fiction.

The writers Joe Meno and Dan Sinker made an interactive novel about a midwest town where everything disappears. It’s called Question Mark, Ohio. It has multiple characters spread across multiple platforms and I wrote Greta Twombley, the town library. Here is her book recommendation page.

Shot to the Lungs and No Breath Left, Coachella Review

Incredible, Joyland

The Flood, The Nervous Breakdown

Times Are Tough All Over, Monkeybicycle

I Am the Christmas Spirit, MAKE

Writing About Writing.

Hug Your Independent Bookseller, Poets & Writers

We Get to Make a Mess, Poets & Writers

Memory (With Soundtrack), Poets & Writers

Run On, Poets & Writers

On Reading Aloud, Poets & Writers

On Endings, Poets & Writers

An Essay About Essays, Hypertext

A Room of One’s Own in the Middle of Everything, The Rumpus

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