Naomi Washer

I’m a writer and psychotherapist in New York City.
My creative work explores the intersection of reading, language, literature, translation, psychoanalysis, and creative process.

I am the Editor of Extra-Analytic: Creative Readings for Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

My next book, Marginalia: An Autobiography, will be published by Autofocus in Fall 2025. An excerpt from an early version of this project was published by Sundog Lit.

I wrote a novel about reading in translation and the gaps in communication between people called Subjects We Left Out, published by Veliz Books in 2021.

I wrote a short book of free associations that take place on train rides called Trainsongs, published by Greying Ghost in 2020.

Here is a smattering of my other creative work:

on mirrors, photographs, memories, and self-investigations
on (re)creating rooms on film
on Bruno Schulz and early childhood memories
on taking the Wallace Stevens Walk in Connecticut
on letter-writing
on leaving California
on fucking up and getting lost
on always being bent out of shape
on the shadow of a memory

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