Julianna
Drew
Björkstén

Work

About

Essays

Texas Guinan: Hollywood's First Cowgirl

Corinne Griffith Was a Silent-Film Superstar. Then the World Heard Her Voice.

The Leadville Native Who Became the Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood

Dinner & a Show: How the Curtains Have Opened & Closed on America’s Dinner Theaters

The Woman Constructed: Language in Semiotics of the Kitchen and Post-Partum Document

Oxford American

Texas Monthly

Herald Democrat

NOSH

Confluence

Criticism

Documentary Poetics of Belonging in Divya Victor’s Poetry

October Hill Magazine

Sound and Silence in Raymond Antrobus’ Award-Winning Poetry Collection

October Hill Magazine

Exploring Plural Selves in Taylor Johnson’s Debut Collection

October Hill Magazine

Translation and Poetic Conversation in Yi Lei’s New Book

October Hill Magazine

An Ode to American Blackness: Joshua Bennett’s ‘Owed’

October Hill Magazine

Power Structures, Labor, and more at The Armory Show 2020

Whitewall

Dining With Ploetz: Food For Thought

Washington Square News

Rebutting the Warped History of ‘Hamilton’

Washington Square News

Interviews

The Editors Challenging the Way We Think About Desire

Narratively

The TikTok Poet Bringing Untold Black History to the Masses

Narratively

The Writer Sharing the Untold Stories of Female Climate Activists

Narratively

The Single Father Writing Candidly about Parenthood

Narratively

A Genre-Bending Memoir That Took 10 Years to Take Shape

Narratively

Nina Katchadourian Makes the Most of this Waiting Time

Whitewall

New York’s Coolest Pop-up Shop, Café Forgot, Launches E-Comm Site

Whitewall

Glueing the Past Together: An Interview with artist Warren King

Embodied

The Future of Reality: A Conversation with Kevin Mack

Embodied