Essays/Excerpts
Except for the Cancer I'm Fine
Belt Magazine, February 2021
Lori and Kristen Bell on the New York Times' "Modern Love" Podcast!
People Who've Written Books Around Here! A Documentary by Pittsburgh Legend Rick Sebak
Boy Crazy, or Sex and Death from Kindergarten to Grade 8
Queen Mob's Tea House
The Plain Unmarked Box Arrived
from The New York Times "Modern Love" Column
Say You Want to Live and Be Beautiful (memoir excerpt)
Hippocampus Magazine (finalist, Remember in November contest)
Brevity Magazine (Appears in the Best of Brevity Anthology, 2021)
"There Is No Dust in My House: On Writing About Myself and Others"
from Brevity, November 2015
"I Felt Like Licking Might Happen A Lot"
from Hobart, March 2014
"You'll Love the Way We Fly"
from Brevity magazine
"Sexy NYC"
from The Rumpus, January 2014
"I'm Into Leather"
from KGB BarLit
"Vox Humana"
a story about meeting Studs Terkel, from Pittsburgh Quarterly, 2014
"Rough Air"
from Vol 1 Brooklyn, July 2014
"Wonderland of Knowledge"
from Defunct Magazine, Spring 2014
"Free to Good Home"
from Superstition Review, Issue #12 (nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
"Shut Up and Dance"
from Belt Magazine, May 2014
"Incisions"
from Brevity (nominated for The Pushcart Prize)
Poems
Hobart
Former 90s Supermodel Cindy Crawford Says People Shouldn't Worry About Aging
Winning Writers/Wergel Flompf honorable mention)
"One Day When He Was Dying"
Saturday Poem from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 2015
"The Lady in 38 C"
from Pop City Pittsburgh, excerpt from SPOT THE TERRORIST collection
3 Poems
from LA Cultural Weekly
Two Poems
from LA Cultural Weekly
Interviews
Author Interview, Atticus Books
An interview about BELIEF IS ITS OWN KIND OF TRUTH, MAYBE
12 or 20 Questions with Lori Jakiela
Interview by author Rob McClennan
"Life's Moments Still Matter"
Interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
"In Pittsburgh We Have a Very Strong Sense of No Bullshit"
an interview with Sampsonia Way magazine
"A Closer Look: Lori Jakiela"
a profile piece from The University Times
Speaking Volumes: Essential Pittsburgh
Interview on NPR affiliate WESA-FM in Pittsburgh
"How a Poem Happens: 'Working the Red Eye' "
Interview from the "How a Poem Happens" site