Books:

Swerve: a novel of divergence (with McCormick Templeman and Vincent James)

Institutional Garbage (Contributor)

Lit Windows

The Minotaur’s Daughter

Time-Scaping by Mary Burger (Co-Editor & Designer)

Karner Blue Estates

Mor (with Michael Levell and Olatungji)

Other Published Work:

Prose Poetry

“A Plate” in ‘We will not be exorcised’, eds. Kadijah Queen and Jillian Wiese, The New York Times, June 15, 2019.

Stories

“Don’t Move Gertrude,” Fiction Folio, edited by Kelly Krumrie, Annulet: a journal of poetics, Issue 5, Summer 2023.

“Salad”, Newfound Journal, No.3 (print & digital), 2017.

“If one were to be philosophical (a novel excerpt)” Summer Stock: a lit journal for humanimals, Issue #5, 2011.

“A Drama,” Brown Bag Magazine, 2008.

“A Madrigal Romance,” Fact-Simile, 1.1 Spring/Summer 2008.

“A Difficult Project,” Marginalia, 2007.

“Lacunae's Proof,” Bombay Gin, #31, 2005.

Excerpt of “Oh Connor, My Olivier,” Transmissions, 2005.

Excerpt of “The Button Stories,” Bed, 2004.

Broadsides

“A Philosophical Tractate on the Columbidae,” Fact-Simile, 2012.

Book Introductions

“Reading an Open Palm” in Mutations of Fortune by Erica Adams, Green Lantern Press, 2011.

Articles / Essays / Interviews

“An Introduction and Nine Notes on Anne Waldman,” Chicago Humanities Festival Blog, 2012.

“Unfold is the Wrong Word: an interview with Bhanu Kapil,” HTMLGiant, 2012.

“Knee-Jerk talks with Gary Lutz,” Knee-Jerk Offline, v. 2, 2012.

“Knee-Jerk talks to Brian Evenson,” Knee-Jerk Online, #27, Sept. 2011.

“Cairo Response #20,” Cairo on the Length limited edition art book by Amira Hanifi, 2010.

“How to waste time the smart way,” F-News, 2007.

Book Reviews

“Watching the Hand Dig: Allen C. Shelton’s Where the North Sea Touches Alabama" Newfound Journal, v.6 i. 2, Spring 2015. Buy the book here.

“On St. Elizabeth’s Rabble,” Four Quarters Review, 2004.

Readings / Talks / Encounters:

Readings

5 x 5 Reading, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2018.

Featured Guest Reader, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2018.

Reading with Khadijah Queen and André Hoilette at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, Boulder, CO, 2017.

Featured Reader, Volumes Bookcafe, Chicago, IL, 2016.

Mingle Reading Series, Ravenswood Used Books, Chicago, IL, 2016.

Absinthe and Zygote #23: Beauteous Roof, Chicago, IL, 2015.

Woodland Pattern Books Marathon Reading Fundraiser, Milwaukee, WI, 2015.

Brass Monkey Reading, Red Line Tap, Chicago, IL, 2014.

Holiday Reading with Kevin Kilory and Naomi Buck Palagi, Ipsento Cafe, Chicago, IL, 2014.

Red Rover Reading Experiment #54, Outer Space Studio, Chicago, IL, 2012.

The Mutation of Fortune Release Party, The Corpse Space, Chicago, IL, 2011.

Talks

Moderator & Panelist, “On Swerve: An Experimental Cross-Genre Collaborative Novel Project” John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 2018.

"Biblioderive: a talk on Situationism in the Library" at Anderson Academic Commons at University of Denver, Denver, CO, 2017.

"Hidden in Plain Sight: a talk on Voice" at the Windy City Chapter of RWA, Naperville, IL, 2016.

Exhibitions

Institutional Garbage, presented by The Green Lantern Press and the The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, September 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016. More here.

Cairo on the Length: a project by Amira Hanafi, Spoke Chicago, October 3 - October 15, 2010.

Hosting Events:

Co-Curator of the Dikeou Literary Series, 2018-2020.

Editing / Archiving / Tinkering:

Reader for the Nelson Algren Literary Awards, 2013-

Associate Editor, Denver Quarterly, 2016-2019.

Reader for Newfound Prose Prize, 2015-2019.

Prose Editor, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, 2007.

I have worked as a digital audio preservation tech on the Naropa Audio Archive Project and The Sun Ra/El Saturn Audio Collections.

Bibliography:

Interviews

“Me, My Shelf & I: Rowland Saifi,” interview with Laura Pearson, The Chicago Tribune, June 3, 2016.

“What How & With Whom: Two Questions for Rowland Saifi,” micro-interview with Christopher Higgs, Entropy, January 22, 2015.

“August Writer: Rowland Saifi,” interview with Sarah Terez Rosenblum for her “Hot Chicago Writer” column in The Chicago Sun-Times, August, 2013.

Reviews & Mentions

Swerve: a novel of divergence

“Mike Carrao’s Notes on the Authorial Flux of Swerve […],” by Mike Carrao, Heavy Feather Review, February 26, 2021.

The Minotaur's Daughter

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint mentions The Minotaur’s Daughter at the end of her interview with The Rumpus.

“The Minotaur’s Daughter by Rowland Saifi,” by Hal, the powerHouse Arena blog, 2015.

“Rowland Saifi’s The Minotaur’s Daughter,” by Mary Burger, Your Impossible Voice, 2015.

“JKS Alumus Rowland Saifi’s New Book The Minotaur’s Daughter,” Jack Kerouac School Alumus blog, September 22, 2014.

Institutional Garbage

“Review: Institutional Garbage,” by Keeley Haftner, Bad At Sports blog, December 12, 2019.

“Institutional Garbage,” by Caroline Picard, cocopicard.com, October 25, 2018

“Institutional Garbage: 1 Top Weekend Pick,” by Visualist Chicago, Bad At Sports blog, September 1, 2016.

Other

Bhanu Kapil references the interview I conducted with her in her post “The Shape of the I: Decompressions” on the Poetry Foundation blog, April, 19, 2012.

Poet Joe Cooper mentions me in a poem ‘naropa number 37’, moonflowerpoem.com, October 5, 2009.

Roxane Gay mentions my introduction her review “Five things about the mutation of fortune by Erica Adams” on HTMLGiant, June, 10, 2011.