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Other Writing

selected works

Nonfiction:

Ballet Dancer’s Memoir Details The Personal Highs And Lows Of Pursuing An Artistic Calling, GirlTalkHQ, December 2024

“Putting Dance on the Page,” Women Writers, Women’s Books, December 2024

“At the Party,” excerpted from The Nutcracker Chronicles, Sanctuary Magazine, December 2024

“The Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier,” excerpted from The Nutcracker Chronicles, Nob Hill Gazette, November 2024

“If Words Could Dance,” Writer’s Digest, October 2024

“Ballerina Farm and the ways dancers embrace their life after hanging up their pointe shoes,” Salon, August 2024

“The Choreography of a Friendship,” Pangyrus, July 2023

“Break Through,” Bellingham Review, Spring 2023

“Mom Reflects on Micro-Preemie Twins’ Tumultuous Beginning.” Vitals, January 2023

“The Shine Inside,” Santa Fe Writers Project, December 2022

“Dancing on the Blade,” Under the Sun, May 2021
Recipient of the 2021 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Award for Nonfiction and the 2022 New Millennium Award for Nonfiction

“Breaking Character,” Longridge Review, January 2021

“Dreaming of a New Nutcracker,” Zócolo Public Square, December 24, 2020

"The Last Innocent Moment," New Ohio Review, December 2020

“Sawed,” Burningwood Literary Journal, October 2020

"Fictional Bodies,” Soundings East, Salem State University, July 2020

"Smooth Sales," Publishers Weekly, February 2020

"Memoir as a Flower Arrangement," Writer's Digest, March, 2020

"Poke,” Redivider, December, 2019

"Tiny Rituals," Mothers Always Write, October 2019

“Fully Aware,” Multiples Illuminated, November 2018

Fiction:

“Limelight,” Santa Fe Writers Project, Spring 2023

“Narrowly,” Jet Fuel Review, Issue 25, Spring 2023

Recordings

“Intermission,” excerpt from Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home
Recording begins at 51:50
13th Annual Motherhood & Words with Kate Hopper, April 2019

“To Dance!” KQED Perspectives, December 2014

Interviews

Memoir Nation: On Getting Into Writing Residencies and Book Festivals, January 2026

Interviewing Nicole Cuffy for SFPL’s On the Same Page, February 2025

“From Dancer to Writer, Janine Kovac and The Nutcracker Chronicles,” Writers’ Voices, January 2025

In conversation with Lisa Smith for The Nutcracker Chronicles, Big Blend Radio, November 2024

In conversation with Hannah and Yelena of After Class, Ballet for All, November 2024

Book Q&A with Deborah Kalb, November 2024

“A Conversation with Janine Kovac,” by Marianne Lonsdale, Literary Mama, March 2019

“IndieView with Janine Kovac,” IndieView, November 2017

videos

 

rehearsing for the Follies at the Community of Writers, summer 2016

IMG DESCR: close-up of dancer putting on white pointe shoes
photo credit: Ian Tuttle


“A Night at the Nutcracker” - Legerdemain for National Flash Fiction Day anthology

IMG DESCR: dancer with lipstick at makeup table
photo courtesy of the author


Listen To Your Mother San Francisco 2016

IMG DESCR: profile of woman at microphone
photo credit: Ian Tuttle


Interview with Memoirs with Melissa: @WriteroftheWeek


 
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