SHORT FICTION The Dancer in Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (ed. Jones, Moore & Bridgforth). Forthcoming in July 2010. Halfie in Callaloo, Spring 2009 The Tide in To Be Left With the Body - edited by Cheryl Clarke & Steven G. Fullwood; a publication of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) La Ciguapa, Sable LitMag, Winter 2007. Eddie, Blithe House Quarterly,September 2004 Erzulie's Skirt [novel excerpt] in Tisa Bryant et al (Eds) Encyclopedia 1 A-E, May 2006 POETRY A Dream in Five Movements in Rooted!: A Queer Codex, Winter 2008 The River Runs Into the Wind in Rooted!: A Queer Codex, Winter 2008 Kehnstalks in Torch: Poetry, Prose and short stories by African American Women, Spring 2007 The Wedding of Yemanya and Ogun, Stanford Black Arts Quarterly, Summer 2005 Rituales, Tongues Magazine, Summer 2002. CRITICAL ESSAYS Uncovering Mirrors in AfroLatin@s in the U.S. Reader, Duke University Press [forthcoming August 2010] A Change of Manta in LG Mendoza & TN Herrera (eds) Telling Tongues: A Latino Anthology on Language Experience, RedSalmonArts Press, December 2006. Cimarronas, Senoras y Ciguapas in R. Spellers & K. Moffitt (Eds) Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hairs/Body Politics in Africana Communities, Hampton Press, [forthcoming] Vudu in the Dominican Republic: Resistance and Healing, Phoebe Journal of Gender & Cultural Critiques, 17(1), Spring 2005. Spirit of the Ancestors: The Photographic Works of Albert Chong and Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Canadian Women's Studies Journal, Winter 2004 ARTIST INTERVIEWS Interview with Ruth Ellen Kocher in Torch: Poetry, Prose & Short Stories by African-American Women, Spring 2010 Interview with Tayari Jones in Torch: Poetry, Prose & Short Stories by African-American Women, Spring/Summer 2008 Interview with r. Erica Doyle in Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Texts, RedBone Press, July 2007. Interview with Samira Abbassy in A Gathering of the Tribes [online], June 2007 Interview with Sharon Bridgforth in Torch: Poetry, Prose & Short Stories by African American Women, Fall 2006. SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT WRITINGS Integration - National Organizer's Alliance Newsletter, Spring 2004  www.bustingbinaries.com with co-author, Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, August 2005 PERFORMANCE ART & INSTALLATIONS Pënz: Its Pronounced Pants: an art year collaboration [2008] Written on the Body: a multi-entry performance on poetics [2007] Set in the age of urbanization in the Dominican Republic over the course of several lifetimes, Erzulie’s Skirt is a tale how women and their families struggle with love, tragedy and destiny. Told from the perspectives of three women, Erzulie’s Skirt takes us from the rural villages and sugar cane plantations to the slums of Santo Domingo, and along the journey by yola across the sea between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It is a compelling love story that unearths our deep ancestral connections to land, ritual and memory. Artwork by Wura-Natasha Ogunji, cover design by E.M. Corbin.  Order through RedBone Press  or on amazon.com

…Erzulie’s Skirt is a powerful story that the reader will not soon forget. It’s a book that challenges our North American complacency, finds beauty in a hard life full of bigotry and poverty, and paints a portrait of a love that soars from the physical to the spiritual; it’s a book that’s well worth reading. ~Martha Miller, Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, May-June 2007   Infused with the language of ritual and indigenous beliefs, Erzulie's Skirt is a credible narrative, in which dreams and the spirit world communicate with the living, blurring boundaries and borders as a method of teaching humanity about tolerance and the curative nature of hope."   ~ Rigoberto González, El Paso Times   Lara’s writing is lyrical...~ColorLines, July/August 2007   Lara’s novel renders a tale that places past lives and present ones in her two main characters’ lives with ease and care.  ~Tara Betts, Mosaic Magazine, Winter 2007