Essays, Reviews, & Interviews
Between 2002 and 2007, Sze-Lorrain worked on assignments in fashion journalism, music and art criticism, dramaturgy, and gastronomy in New York, Paris, and Singapore.
She writes occasional poetry reviews and nonfiction, including essays on art, translation, photography, contemporary theatre, food, orchids, and French cultural studies for art catalogues, literary journals, industry magazines, and academic sites.
The Art of Walking: A Conversation with William Sharpe
Cahiers, February 2024
Hand Notes from One Language to Another
The Poetry Review, Spring 2022
How Each Line Appears
Princeton University Press: Ideas, January 4, 2021
Behind the Byline: Interview on Greta Knutson
New England Review, December 2019
Living and Writing in Lishui: Contemporary Chinese Poet Ye Lijun
Kenyon Review, December 2019
My Summer Reading List
Connecticut Art Review, July 2019
Unexpected Lines and Gradients: A Blue Dark, and
interview with Fritz Horstman and Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Poetry Society of America, July 2019
The Art of Attending to Our Surroundings: Self-Portrait
with Dogwood by Christopher Merrill
Kenyon Review, March 2019
An Accidental Memoirist: The Education of a Young Poet
by David Biespiel
Kenyon Review, December 2018
After the Secrets, the Colors: Between the Material and the Abstract in Mark Strand's Collages
Antioch Review, Vol. 76 No. 2
Poems Argue with One Another: Natasha Sajé
Poetry Society of America, June 2018
Poetry Today: Hand Notes on Translation
Antioch Review, Vol. 75 No. 4
Bodies and Paintings:
Gao Xingjian's After the Flood
Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics
Eds. Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei
Cambria Press, 2018
The Song Is Always There: Maureen N. McLane
Poetry Society of America, February 2018
Laudomia Bonanni and The Reprisal
Prairie Schooner (blog), June 2015
Les Enfants terribles: Victor Hugo and Aimé Césaire
Poetry Salzburg Review, Spring 2014
Milo De Angelis's Theme of Farewell and After-Poems
Words Without Borders, July 2013
The Shadow of the Sunflower
Poetry London, Autumn 2012
Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies
Words Without Borders, July 2012
Return to Image
Hayden's Ferry Review (blog), April 2012
Aharon Shabtai's War & Love, Love & War
Words Without Borders, December 2010
It First Began in the Streets: Just Kids by Patti Smith
Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11
Emmanuel Moses's He and I
Words Without Borders, March 2010
C'est la douce France
Alimentum, November 2009
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Bookbrowse, 2008
"Cinema, too, is literature"—
Conversing with Gao Xingjian
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, March 2008
Qiu Ju Goes to Court: Relating Cinematic Art to Juridical Reality
Asian Cinema, Vol. 17 No. 2, Fall/Winter 2006