A selection of my online essays, interviews, and features. For book information, please visit the Books page.
Recent Essays & Creative Nonfiction
- “My mom died.” — Lunch Ticket (Antioch University Literary Magazine), 2025. Flash nonfiction on the death of a parent, grief as inheritance, and the ways loss alters memory. Publication link forthcoming
- “Because you didn’t hit me.” – Vast Chasm Magazine (Vast Literary Press), 2024
Creative nonfiction essay on intimate partner abuse and the minimization of harm.
https://vastliterarypress.org/2024/04/14/24q2-delvecchio-because-you-didnt-hit-me/ - “Vulnerability in Your Writing and Why it Matters” – Women Writers, Women’s Books, 2024
Craft / personal essay connecting Unsexed to writing bravely about trauma and sexuality.
https://booksbywomen.org/vulnerability-in-your-writing-and-why-it-matters/ - “Consequences of Truth-Telling: Self-Censorship in Memoir” – Women Writers, Women’s Books, 2019
On the pressures to self-censor in memoir, especially around family and trauma.
https://booksbywomen.org/consequences-of-truth-telling-self-censorship-in-memoir/ - “Abuse and Empowerment: Donna Kaz’s Un/Masked Compels Us to Speak Up” – Ms. Magazine, 2016
Review-essay on Donna Kaz’s memoir about abuse, art, and feminist resistance.
https://msmagazine.com/2016/11/30/abuse-empowerment-donna-kazs-unmasked-compels-us-speak/ - “Bibliomemoirs for Bibliophiles” – The Tishman Review, 2016 (craft essay)
Craft essay on immersion memoirs and literature as a lens for life writing. Link no longer live. - “Rape Culture and How It Betrays Women.” – Huffington Post, 2011 Focusing on the gang rape of a teenager, this essay explores a community’s reactions to rape culture. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marina-delvecchio/post_1849_b_838788.html
Journal Publications
- Batchelder, Heather, MA, Drake, Connor, PhD; Tyler Johnson; Ruth Gilliam Phillips, DPM; Thomas Szigethy, MA; Marina DelVecchio, PhD; Kate Zhang, PhD; Ralph Snyderman, MD, “Risk Factors of Food Insecurity Among Students at Diverse Post-Secondary Education Institutions: A Cross-Sectional Examination.” Journal of American College Health, 2023.
- DelVecchio, Marina. “Everyone a Mode, Everyone a Voice: Critical Pedagogy and Community College Student Perceptions of Multimodal Practices over Traditional Writing Practices,” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2022.
Feminist Pop Culture & Parenting Commentary
- “Moana’s real fight isn’t against a demigod, but the patriarchy itself” – SheKnows (formerly BlogHer), 2016
Feminist reading of Moana and girls’ agency in contemporary Disney films.
https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1130126/moana-patriarchy/ - “5 Empowering Gifts for Girls” – BlogHer, 2014
Essay on non-material, feminist ways to empower daughters.
https://www.blogher.com/5-empowering-gifts-girls - “On Shaving: It’s MY Body” – BlogHer, 2014
On body hair, shame, and claiming bodily autonomy.
https://www.blogher.com/its-my-body-and-i-wont-shave-unless-i-want
Literary Criticism & Reviews
- “Otherness in Playwright Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive” – Her Circle Ezine, 2013
Close reading of abuse, power, and “otherness” in Vogel’s play.
https://www.hercircleezine.com/2013/04/11/otherness-in-playwright-laura-vogels-how-i-learned-to-drive/
Interviews, Profiles & Features
- “Interview with Marina DelVecchio, Author of Unsexed” – WE Magazine for Women, 2024
Full Q&A plus excerpt from Unsexed: Memoirs of a Prostitute’s Daughter.
https://wemagazineforwomen.com/interview-with-marina-delvecchio-author-of-unsexed/ - “7 Resolutions Toward Female Empowerment” – WE Magazine for Women, 2024. Earlier empowerment-focused essay on resolutions that center women’s agency.
https://wemagazineforwomen.com/7-resolutions-toward-female-empowerment/ - “Author Marina DelVecchio of Unsexed On How To Learn To Finally Love Yourself” – Authority Magazine / Medium, 2024
Long-form interview about self-love, trauma, and your memoir.
https://medium.com/authority-magazine/author-marina-delvecchio-of-unsexed-on-how-to-learn-to-finally-love-yourself-b3b666d4d1d3 - “What’s In Your Sex? – Asexuality, Sexuality, and the Spectrum That Does Not Simplify Them” – GirlTalkHQ, 2024
Feature on Unsexed and exploration of sexuality, trauma, and shame.
https://www.girltalkhq.com/whats-in-your-sex-asexuality-sexuality-and-the-spectrum-that-does-not-simplify-them/ - “A Conversation with Professor Marina DelVecchio, Author of Unsexed” – Becoming Your Best Version podcast, 2024
Podcast interview on writing the memoir, sex, motherhood, and trauma.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-conversation-with-professor-marina-delvecchio/id1562910379?i=1000664818668
Print & Anthology Credits
- “Miscarried” – Essay in Three Minus One (She Writes Press collection), 2014
- “Rape Culture and How it Betrays Women” – Essay on media and violence against women in Media Violence (Cengage / Opposing Viewpoints, 2013).
Contests & Awards
- Unsexed: Memoirs of a Prostitute’s Daughter – Notable Memoir in the 2025 Memoir Prize for Books, 2025.
- “Let Your Sons Come Out” – Honorable Mention, 89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, 2020.
- “I Watch Her” – Honorable Mention, Carolina Woman Magazine, 2019.
- “God’s Beauty Marks” – Finalist, Tiferet Journal Writing Contest, 2015.