Writer

I enjoy both creative and scholarly writing. My fiction is sometimes realist, but more often fabulist. I also write about tutor education for my day job. Below is a list of my publications and other related writing projects. Please contact me at Kristina.Aikens@gmail.com if you would like to talk about these or other projects!

LITERARY JOURNALS

“Bearn House.” (short story) Coffin Bell. Volume 7, Issue 4, October 2024.

“Undertow.” (flash memoir) Tahoma Literary Review. Issue 9. Spring 2017.

MAGAZINES

“Alice in Adaptation-Land: How wanderer Alice became warrior Alice, and why.” Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Issue 48 (The Make Believe Issue): Fall 2010.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Toward Anti-racist Writing Center Hiring and Retention Practices.” (Co-authored with Jamie Bondar and Devon Deery). In Writing Centers and Racial Justice: A Guidebook for Critical Praxis. Eds. Talisha Haltiwanger and Deirdre Anne Evans Garriott. Utah State UP. November 2023.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Prioritizing Antiracism in Writing Tutor Education.” How We Teach Writing Tutors: A WLN Digital Edited Collection. Johnson, Karen G., and Ted Roggenbuck, editors. 2019.

“Writing Tutor Development Through Peer Mentoring.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 17.4 (Winter 2013). 34-39. (Republished in the Spring 2015 AEX Sound Instruction Book Writing Center Theory and Practice.) 

“Battling Addictions in Dracula.” Gothic Studies 11.2 (Nov 2009): 41-51.

“The Daughter’s Desire in Dombey and Son.” Critical Survey 17.2 (2005): 77-91.

BLOGS

“Victorian Women on Drugs” (4-part series) for Points: The Blog  of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, 2012.

Personal blog: Bibliocurio

FILM SYNOPSES

I wrote original film synopses for the Independent Film Festival Boston for nine years (2005 – 2013). If you’re an independent filmmaker having trouble writing a synopsis for your film, I might be able to help you (Kristina.Aikens@gmail.com).