Work – Rebecca Moon Ruark

Feel free to peruse my existing and forthcoming publications.

Coming soon

Co-editor: Body of Work, essays on dance identity, injury, and reform, part of the Connective Tissue series from WVU Press (late 2027/early 2028)

“A New Nuclear,” Great Lakes Review, April 2023

“The Pearl Diver,” CutBank, Issue No. 94, 2021 (print and excerpt online)

“Breaking Waves,” a novel excerpt, The Halcyone Literary Review, Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2020 (print only)

“The Virgins,” Barren Magazine, Issue No. 8, 2019 (online)

“While Our Grown Men Played,” Little Patuxent Review, Issue 24, Winter 2019 (print only)

“Scooter Kid,” Parhelion Literary Magazine, Issue No. 4, February 2019 (online)

“Recruit,” Flock, Vol. 20, 2018 (print and online with audio)

“Betting Blind,” Sou’wester, Vol. 45, No. 1 & 2, Spring 2017 (print only)

“Sleeping Naked,” Carve Magazine, 2002, Volume III, July / Issue IV (no longer accessible), but you can get a snippet here.

“A Light in the Darkness: Taizé for Advent,” an article, at the Jesuit Media Lab, posted December 16, 2025

“Horror as Dissonance: The Catholic Imagination at Halloween,” an article, at the Jesuit Media Lab, posted October 14, 2025

“Celebrating the Ordinary in Sacramental Preparation,” an article, at the Jesuit Media Lab, posted May 16, 2025

“The Mystery Is the Point: A Catholic Storytelling Experience,” an article and poem, at the Jesuit Media Lab, posted November 6, 2024

“Mass isn’t a ‘show.’ But it has plenty of drama,” an essay, at America Magazine, posted July 12, 2024; republished at Catholic Outlook

“Forsaken Silence, Sacred Song,” film criticism of Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland (2022), at the Dappled Things blog, posted June 11, 2024

“Megan Giddings Reimagines the Rust Belt,” an essay (that first appeared at Rust Belt Girl), at Belt Magazine, posted March 15, 2023

“Ode to an Ode About Hands,” a short essay, in Vita Poetica Journal, Winter 2022

“Singing Ave Maria for an Audience of One,” a short essay, at the Dappled Things blog, posted Oct. 21, 2021

“Poets and Prophets in the Wilderness,” a book review, at the Dappled Things blog, posted Mar. 16, 2021

“Advent is the Great Longing,” a short essay, at the Dappled Things blog, posted Dec. 17, 2020

“Fresh First Poetry Collection Draws on Women of Myth,” a book review, NewPages Blog, posted June 15, 2020

In “Readers’ Notes,” Ruminate, The Everyday / 54, Spring 2020, a short reflection

“Jesus, My Son’s Buckteeth,” Presence 2023 (print only)

“Six Places I Have Slept,” DASH Literary Journal, Volume 10, Spring 2017 (print only)

“Event Aims to Construct an Interest in STEM,” a campus news story, Maryland Today, University of Maryland, July 26, 2024

“Engineering Prowess to ‘Spare’ at Alumni Cup,” a campus news story, Maryland Today, University of Maryland, February 24, 2024

“Honoring the Man Behind ‘The Rec,'” an alumni profile, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Fall 2022

Monthly Giving Made Easy: A How-To Guide by Erica Waasdorp, 2021: editor

“Art For Future’s Sake,” an alumna profile on artist May Yeung ’08, St. Timothy’s School alumnae bulletin, Fall 2020 (print only)

“The Path Forward: 100 Years of Protecting America’s Parks,” National Parks Conservation Association 2019 annual report (downloadable)

“Visionaries: Steven A. Greenberg,” a donor profile, Legacy Partners, the Whitney-Harkness Society newsletter from NewYork-Presbyterian, Spring 2017

“Building Tomorrow, Together: An Investment for Maryland,” cover feature story, Engineering at Maryland, Fall 2017

More journalism for the University of Maryland

See my portfolio website for more…