WRITING

2025 | “In the Break of Images,” an essay in A Reprise, the forthcoming photography book devoted to David Alekhuogie’s photographs and installations | Aperture
2025 | “Below as Above: Chicago Footwork 1986 - Present,” essay with accompanying photography / photo-collages in Dancing on the Third Coast, edited by Susan Manning and Lizzie Leopold | University of Illinois Press
2021 | “Dancing the Wall of Respect” | Essay and visual art by Glasspiegel in Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect, edited by Romi Crawford | University of Minnesota Press
2021 | “Each One, Teach One: Footwork in Minnesota” | Essay, photographs and oral histories in MN Artists | Published by the Walker Art Center
2019 | “Kicking a Leg” | Essay with photography / photo-collage in Portable Gray, published by the University of Chicago Press
2018 | “My Friendship with Janka Nabay, Genius of Bubu” | NPR Music
2016 |  Interview with Omar Souleyman | Interview in Punk Ethnography edited by Michael Veal and Tammy Kim | Wesleyan University Press
2014 | “Footwork: Ten Essential Tracks” | Pitchfork.com
2013 | “Shangaan Electro from Soweto to Sonar” | Master’s thesis for NYU’s Media, Culture and Communication Department
2012 | “What Nollywood Tells Us About Africa” | Interview with poet Odia Ofeimun in The Guardian
2006 | Interview with saxophonist Fred Anderson in Downbeat Magazine