Vivian Wagner
Essays, Poems, & Journalism
Writing
Journalism
"The Farming Colony That Grew Under the Midnight Sun." Gastro Obscura. Jan. 18, 2022
"Arts & Culture's Virtual Survival Story: The Show Must Go On," E-Commerce Times, March 23, 2021
"Victory Gardens 2.0: Gardening in the Pandemic Era," E-Commerce Times, July 27, 2020
"Take this Job and Share it," AARP.org, Feb. 1, 2017
"How to Craft a New Career," AARP.org, Oct. 3, 2016
"Packrafting the Placer River," Alaska Magazine, October 2014
"The Aborted Launch and Meteoric Rise of Astronaut Ice Cream," Narratively Magazine, August, 2014
"Littering and Following the Crowd," The Atlantic, April 1, 2014
"Mr. Etch a Sketch," American Profile, Feb. 8, 2014
"An Alaskan Sailing Adventure," Blue Water Sailing, November 2013
"Riding to Daytona: A Woman's Solo Journey from Ohio to Florida," Rider, April 3, 2013
"Passion for Pawpaws," American Profile, Aug. 21, 2013
"A Sailing Virgin Visits the British Virgin Islands," Caribbean Compass, April 2013
"Paint Revitalizes Ohio Community" American Profile, Sept. 4, 2012
"Roaring Reinvention: How a Grandmother Started a Motorcycle Shop," Entrepreneur, April 29, 2011
"Social Network News," Fast Company, April 16, 2008
Essays
"Home to Roost," River Teeth Journal--Beautiful Things, Jan. 6, 2020
"Review of Walker Pass," Bending Genres, April 9, 2019
"Appalachian Edge," The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, February 2019
"Labyrinth," Inlandia, vol. IX, 2019
"Not," Slice Magazine, no. 21, Fall 2017
"The Strange Case of the Dead Faeries," Truth Serum, vol. 1, February 2017
"Space," The MOON Magazine, Feb. 3, 2017
"On Quiet Resistance," The Manifest-Station, Jan. 20, 2017
"Cut," Basil O'Flaherty, Nov. 2017
"Displaced Person," Glassworks, Nov. 1, 2016
"Remaking," The RavensPerch, June 2016.
"Strata," in Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. Ice Cube Books, 2016.
"Internal Combustion," EDGE. Vol. 9, 2015
"Longwall," Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Fall/Winter 2015
"Rendering," Ilanot Review, Summer 2015
"Maintenance Record," Pine Hills Review, Spring 2015
"Signal and Noise," Gris-Gris: An Online Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts, Spring 2015
"How to Go Through Your Dad's Things When He Dies," Apple Valley Review, Spring 2014
"Trail Riding," Slice of Life, April 20, 2012
"Blood Money," Two Hawks Quarterly, Summer 2009
"A Brief History of Hungarian Food," The Kenyon Review Online, Fall 2008
"Potpies, Mudpies, and Macaroni: On Learning to Cook," Toasted Cheese, June, 2008
"Trace," ECOllective, April 8, 2008
Fiction
"To Richard Milhous Nixon, on His Birthday," Bull & Cross, Jan. 10, 2018
"Chancing It," Drunk Monkeys, Oct. 2, 2017
Poems
"Traveling through the Apocalypse," The AutoEthnographer. February 2022
"Wintering Over" and "Morning, Miramar Beach," The Wild Word, January 2022
"Settlement," Beaver Magazine, Fall 2021
"Starting a Compost Pile," RockPaperPoem, Vol. 1, Fall 2021
"Tikkun Olam." TIMBER, 30 June 2019.
"Appalachian Sunday," Belt Magazine, 4 Feb. 2019
"Cycle," Spank the Carp, 47, February 2019
"Automonic," The Poetry Distillery, May 20, 2018
"Eventide," Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Winter 2018
"Blessing of the Pine Bark Beetle" and "Highway 14," Sheila-Na-Gig, Nov. 28, 2017
"Sa Ta Na Ma," Apricity Magazine, Oct. 18, 2017
"Déjà Vu," "Where He Went," & "Ode to Koekje," Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Spring 2017
"Notes for a Poem About News," Really System, Spring 2017
"On a Roll" and "Bound," Anti-Heroin Chic, April 18, 2017
"Trump, The Alchemist," Rise Up Review, January 2017
"The World According to Craigslist," Five 2 One Magazine, January, 2017
"Crystals in Clay," The Wild Word, December, 2016
"Back. Forth," Rise Up Review, December 2016
"Illuminations," 3QR: The Three Quarter Review, Nov. 19, 2016
Book Reviews & Literary Criticism
Review of Tom Kizzia's Cold Mountain Path. Brevity, Feb. 4, 2022
Review of Ross Gay's The Book of Delights, Brevity, May 23, 2019
Review of Sarah Fawn Montgomery's Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, NewPages.com, Jan. 4, 2019
"Essays in Strange Forms and Peculiar Places: The Shell Game," The Millions, June 8, 2018
Review of David Lazar's I'll Be Your Mirror: Essays & Aphorisms, Brevity, June 8, 2018
Review of Zeina Hashem Beck's 3arabi Song, Diode Poetry Journal, January 2017
Review of Alan Michael Parker's The Ladder, Diode Poetry Journal, January 2017
Review of Karen Craigo's No More Milk, The Rumpus, Dec. 2, 2016
"Nature Mothers," Creative Nonfiction, Fall 2016
Review of Kate Schmitt's Singing Bones, Brevity, January 2015
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