Nonfiction:
Middle-Aged Love: Rereading In Your Forties and Beyond, Uncanny, forthcoming.
The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy, Uncanny, Nov/Dec 2025.
Book Clubs With My Imaginary Friends, Uncanny, Jul/Aug 2024.
Failing the Marshmallow Test: On Not Saving Books for Later, Uncanny, Issue 54 (Sept/Oct 2023).
From Panic to Process: What Taking Criticism Actually Means, Uncanny, Issue 46 (May/June 2022).
The Precarious Now, Uncanny, Issue 43 (Nov/Dec 2021).
The Roots of Hope: Toward an Optimistic Near-Future SF in a Pandemic, Uncanny Issue 36 (September/October 2020).
The Solace of Connection, Reckoning magazine's Creativity and Coronavirus series, March 2020.
Save Me A Seat on the Couch: Spoiler Culture, Inclusion, and Disability, Uncanny Issue 32 (January/February 2020).
Beware the Lifeboat, Uncanny Issue 29 (July/August 2019).
Beyond Cinderella: Exploring Agency Through Domestic Fantasy, Tor.com, 2 May 2019.
That Never Happened, Uncanny Issue 27 (March/April 2019).
Malfunctioning Space Stations, Uncanny Issue 24 (September/October 2018: Special Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction issue).
The Seduction of Numbers, the Measures of Progress, Uncanny, Issue 23 (July/August 2018).
Hard Enough, Uncanny, Issue 21 (March/April 2018). Translated into Spanish at https://www.carmenromerolorenzo.es/2018/12/22/suficientemente-ciencia-ficcion-dura-de-marissa-lingen/">El Telar de Aracne.
"How Far Are We From Minneapolis?", Reckoning Issue 1, winter solstice 2016.
"The Apple and the Castle," The Reader: War for the Oaks.
"Fresh-Baked Legacy," Skirt! magazine, November 2003.
"Near Bliss" (originally called "Seeing the Future"), Skirt! magazine, June 2003.
The Changing Face of America: The Chinese Americans, Mason Crest Publishers, forthcoming.
"A Perfect Fit" (originally entitled "Underoos Generation"), Skirt! magazine, July 2002.
We Came To America: The Jewish Americans, Mason Crest Publishers, March 2002
We Came To America: The Chinese Americans, Mason Crest Publishers, March 2002
An interview with Garth Nix, Speculon, February 2002.
"Drawing the Line: What Makes YA Fiction?", Speculon, February 2002.
A review of Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero, Speculon, February 2002.
A review of Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Speculon, January 2002.
Bose-Einstein Condensates: an article for the lay person on Strange Horizons in December of 2001.
A review of Spider Robinson's The Free Lunch, Speculon, November 2001.
"Diversity, Hold the Sugar," Skirt! magazine, November 2001.
A review of Iain M. Banks' Look to Windward, Speculon, September 2001.
A review of Connie Willis' Passage, Speculon, June 2001.
"Camp Sparta," (originally entitled "Mom Vs. Camp Sparta") Skirt! magazine, June 2001.
"The Suburbs of Amber", Strange Horizons, May 2001.
A review of Terry Pratchett's The Thief of Time, Speculon, May 2001.
"What the Kelk is that Dwarf-Lover Doing?: Building a Better World Through Offensive Language," Phantastes, Spring 2001.
A review of Tim Powers' Declare, Speculon, March 2001.
A review of Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Hegemon, Speculon, January 2001.
A guest editorial about subversion in children's lit, Speculon, November 2000.
A review of Callahan's Key, Zealot, September 2000.