Awards/Mentions | Interviews | Other Writing
AWARDS/MENTIONS
NEH Public Scholar Award 2017
Daughters of the Samurai
New York Times Notable Book 2015
Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction of 2015
Seattle Times Best Books 2015
Booklist Top 10 Multicultural Nonfiction
INTERVIEWS
Radio and Podcasts:
Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, April 2021
Greenlight Bookstore Podcast, “Quarantine Sessions,” March 2021
Sound Practice, March 2021
Book Dreams, March 2021
Groks Science Radio Show, February 2021
Constant Wonder, BYU Radio, February 2021
Frank Buckley Interviews, KTLA, February 2021
Nerdette, February 2021
All Things Considered, January 2021
Fresh Air, January 2021
The Nocturnists, January 2021
Healthlink on Air, January 2021
Pulsar, Boston Museum of Science, January 2021
Japan Station Podcast, July 2019
Meiji at 150 Podcast, January 2019
WritersCast, October 2015
KALW San Francisco, July 2015
Modern Notion, July 2015
The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU, July 2015
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, July 2015
Video:
Talk/Q&A with Franny Taliaferro, Cornwall (CT) Library, March 20, 2021
Talk/Q&A with Dr. Perri Klass, Westport (CT) Library, March 16, 2021
Bill’s Books, NBC News 4 New York, March 14, 2021
Talk/Q&A, National Archives, DC, March 5, 2021
Frank Buckley Interviews, KTLA, February 2021
Talk/Q&A, Hudson Library & Historical Society, OH, February 11, 2021
Panel, Elizabeth Blackwell’s 200th with Dr. Vivian Pinn & Jill Platner, Village Preservation, NY, February 9, 2021
Talk/interview with Dr. Perri Klass, American Ancestors/NEHGS/Boston Public Library/WGBH, February 4, 2021
Talk/Q&A, Heberden Society, Weill Cornell Medicine/NYAM, February 3, 2021
Interview with Prof. Betty Bayer, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, February 3, 2021
Talk/Q&A, Science on Tap, January 28, 2021
Talk/Q&A, Untapped New York, January 26, 2021
Talk/interview with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Mutter Museum, January 20, 2021
Talk/interview with Dr. Emily Silverman, Greenlight Books, January 19, 2021
“The Value of Writing Our Way Through a Tumultuous 2020,” PBS NewsHour/IMHO, November 2020
STEM Girls Virtual, Cincinnati Museum Center, July 2020
“Sister Doctors in a Time of Need: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and the Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children on Bleecker Street,” illustrated talk for Village Preservation, April 2020
GCTV Greenwich, full-length footage of talk to the Retired Men’s Association, July 2016
CSPAN BookTV, June 2015
KATU Portland AM Northwest, June 2015
Print/Online:
Gotham Center for New York City History, April 2021
History in the Margins, March 2021
Saturday Evening Post, February 2021
Shelf Awareness, “Reading with…”, January 2021
Shondaland, January 2021
Advice to Writers, January 2021
Washington Independent Review of Books, Author Q&A, January 2021
Publishers Weekly, PW Talks…, September 2020
Publishers Weekly, Open Book, August 2020
Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2016
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, August 2015
The Tropicalist (formerly Daily Samsara), June 2015
Japan Times, May 2015
Wall Street Journal/Speakeasy, May 2015
OTHER WRITING
Essays:
“Elizabeth Blackwell chose to challenge,” Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, Bristol, March 8, 2021
“Elizabeth Blackwell: the pioneering ‘first female doctor’…” BBC HistoryExtra, February 3, 2021
“I Watched a Baby Being Delivered So I Could Write My Book,” Literary Hub, January 20, 2021
“Stand in the Place Where They Were,” Powell’s Books blog, January 15, 2021
“The Way Americans Remember the Blackwell Sisters Shortchanges Their Legacy,” Smithsonian, January 6, 2021
“Wingtips and Shell-Toes,” The Rumpus, November 10, 2020
“Falling in Love with a Second Story,” Publishers Weekly, December 2, 2017
“Meet the Blackwells,” Schlesinger Library Newsletter, Fall 2016
“Citizen of the Twitterverse,” Medium, October 1, 2016
“History Never Ends, It Just Gets Retold,” Literary Hub, May 17, 2016
“Under No Certain Search Terms,” New York Times Book Review, January 22, 2016
“Letters to the Future,” Medium, 2015
“You’re Raising Your Kids Bilingual, Right? Well no…” Salon, 2015
“Watching for the Buffleheads,” The Morning News, 2011
“The Broccoli that Fell from the Sky,” The Morning News, 2010
“Remember the General Slocum,” The Morning News, 2010
“Persephone in the Park,” The Morning News, 2010
“Field Notes from 89th Street,” The Morning News, 2010
“Mother of Two” in Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo, Deborah Siegel & Daphne Uviller, eds, 2006
Recent Reviews:
“Sherri L. Smith’s YA Novel Began With a Photograph” (author interview), Kirkus Reviews, February 12, 2020
“Spirit Animals” (Christine Wunnicke’s The Fox and Dr. Shimamura), New York Times Book Review, May 31, 2019
“An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life” (Tracy Franz’s My Year of Dirt and Water), New York Times Book Review, August 16, 2018
“Fiction from Japan, for the Old World and the New” (Shortlist), New York Times Book Review, August 11, 2017
“In War’s Wake” (Lynne Kutsukake’s The Translation of Love), New York Times Book Review, April 17, 2016
“Prologue to an End” (Kenzaburo Oe’s Death by Water), New York Times Book Review, October 3, 2015
“Dear Betrayer” (Yasushi Inoue’s novellas), New York Times Book Review, April 4, 2015
