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Selected Work

JOURNALISM

My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods | The Atlantic (print feature) When the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there.

The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone | The Atlantic  Essay about my neighbor Arthur who died in the L.A. wildfires, and the childhood he gave me

'I've Never Seen Anything Like This | The Atlantic  A dispatch from the L.A. wildfires

Sound as Ever | Harvard Magazine Gram Parsons and Harvard's hand in country rock

Fire, Fire Everywhere | Cosmopolitan

Winner of a 2023 National Headliner Award. Special report on a group of college students who lived through a mass shooting and wildfire in 72 hours—and the mental health effects of multiple, cascading traumas.

FICTION

Bird, Awarded a 2020 Adroit Literary Journal Prize by Kristen Arnett, author of the New York Times Bestseller Mostly Dead Things. 

Aurora, Orca: A Literary Journal, July 2020 Literary Speculative Fiction Issue. Finalist for the 2020 Stony Brook Prize for Short Fiction.

© 2020 by Nancy Kathryn Walecki

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