The Liminal

the art of living in the betwixt and between, through the lenses of literature, creativity, anthropology, somatics, and matrescence.

By Alexandra Middleton

May 12•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

work of time

my first book -- The Connector (Duke University Press) -- is out today

gardening ahead of the apocalypse

learning how to grow in the midst of looming decay

Mar 20, 2025•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

art and/of constraints

on interruption, limitation, and creative work

Feb 27, 2025•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

Letter to the Anesthesiologist

A birth story *of sorts, published this week in Off Assignment, and a behind-the-essay interview

Oct 4, 2024•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

Body All the Way Down

a new essay published in The Rumpus & a podcast interview about all things writing

Sep 19, 2024•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

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imaginal discs

lessons on liminality from the insect world

Sep 14, 2024•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

cleave

fragments from an early matrescence

Jun 2, 2024•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

third thing

holding paradox & entering the void in the final weeks of pregnancy, and 2023 in reading

Dec 21, 2023•Alexandra Middleton, PhD

sea-change

fieldnotes on a pregnancy

Aug 18, 2023•Alexandra Middleton, PhD