RECENT:
-”Help Me, You’re Bleeding,” short story, Joyland Magazine (March 2024).
-”Sound Art,” short story, The Sun (May 2023).
-“The Party,” short story, Alaska Quarterly Review (Winter/Spring 2020).
-“Lewis and Clark,” short story, Territory, Issue ix - Journeys (October 2018).
-”Mississippi Water,” short piece for HiLoBrow, Project: Object, Fetishes (April 2019).
-“Memoir, Annotated: Notes On My Grandmother’s Story,” a translation and essay for LA Review of Books. (February 2019).
-”Katya Apekina Recommends…”Poets and Writers (November 2018).
Past:
-"Maureen and Marjorie," short story, Iowa Review (Spring 2012). Shortlisted for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013.
-"My Smell Journal: [orange peels, ink, coffee filters]," short story, Santa Monica Review (Spring 2012). Radio version for CBC's Love Me.
-”The Exorcism,” radio journalism out with SPOOKED— a collaboration between Snap Judgement and WNYC.
-"The Untitled Lincoln Love Story Project," short story, Joyland (April 2012). The story was the most read Joyland story that year in the New York section and was featured in the print edition of Joyland Retro Vol. 1 No. 2. It was selected for Longreads, and on Yahoo! News "5 Smart Reads for the Weekend."
-"Bread’s Song," a sound enhanced graphic novel, Better Magazine. Kickstarter said some nice things about my project.
-"Flight," short story, Joyland (April 2013).
-"Night Deposits," short story, West Branch. Selected by guest editor Kathryn Davis.
-"30th Birthday," short short, Nat. Brut.
-"The Topiary," short story, Bodega. The radio-play version of this story is here, for the show THE OUTER REACH, voiced by Martin Starr, Matt Bush, and Lilan Bowden. Aired on KCRW's The Organist.
-"The Deaths of Max Morozov," short short, PANK Magazine (March 2012). I'm interviewed about the story here.
-"The Divers," short short, Product UK.
-Co-wrote script for New Orleans, Mon Amour, directed by Michael Almereyda and starring Elisabeth Moss and Christopher Eccleston. Premiered at SXSW in 2008.
-Translated poetry and prose for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG 2008). Shortlisted for Best Translated Book Prize, 2009.
-Wrote script for Sugar Park Tavern, a short film, directed by Andrew Wonder. Aired on PBS in January 2009.
-Wrote script for Whipped, a short film, directed by Andrew Wonder.
-My first radio story for WWOZ's Street Talk about my favorite pizza joint. Part of the story, Pizza Cat, lived on independently here.
-"Dolores," a short story/art collaboration with Andrea Markel, 7x7.
Interviews (by me):
- “Changing Your Life and Examining the Spaces In-Between” interview with Amber Caron for Electric Literature.
-”Ruth Madievsky Interviewed by Katya Apekina” BOMB.
-”Toxic Masculinity is a Deep Sort of Loneliness” interview with Ben Purkert for LARB.
- “From Russia with Love of Film” interview with Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko for Galerie (Forthcoming).
-”Who Will Bury Me if I Die in a Foreign Land,”interview with Kalani Pickhart for Electric Literature (Oct 19,2021).
-”Eating Disorders, Catholicism, Autofiction, and Unattainable Moms: Talking with JoAnna Novak,” where I interview Joanna Novak about her story collection for BLARB— Meaningful Work.
-”The Self That No One Chooses: A Q-and-A with Chris Dennis on “Here Is What You Do: Stories,” where I interview Chris Dennis about his story collection for LARB.
-”Is Russia a Terrible Country?” interview with Keith Gessen for Electric Literature.
Interviews (of me):
-Other Ppl with Brad Listi (podcast).
-The Spine (podcast).
-Bibliocracy (KPFK).
-The Story Behind the Story (KSQD).
-Reading Women (podcast).
-Bookin’ (podcast).