Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

• “The Luo Have Taken Over the World” (under the pen name J. Barook) in Satellite Press: Transmission (2014). http://transmission.satellitepress.org/VOLUME/001/ISSUE/004/fiction/theluo/
• “The Vine and the Branches” in Witness 26:3 (Winter 2013); https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/volume-26-number-3-winter-2013/the-vine-and-the-branches/
• “La Grande Aventure” in Livre des Fêlures, 31 Histoires Cousues de Fil Noire, (Paris : 13^e Note Editions, 2010)
• “The Frigate Bird” in Danse Macabre, 2010
• “Leach Pad” in Narrative Magazine (Winter 2010), 3^rd Place Fall Contest Winner; https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2010/fall-contest-winners/leach-pad-nate-haken.
• “Starting Over” in Narrative Magazine, Stories of the Week, 2008-2009; https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stories-week-2008-2009/story-week/starting-over-nate-haken
• “Knowing Truth” in Adam Jones ed., Men of the Global South: A Reader, (London: Zed Books, 2006)
• “Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba” in The Massachusetts Review, 47:3 (2006)
• “The Long Haul” in The Raven Chronicles, 11:1 (2004)
• “Alonso and Baruch” in The Iconoclast Literary Magazine, No. 83 (2004)
• “The Center of the World (Part 2)” in The Iconoclast Literary Magazine, No 71 (2002)*
• “Music in the Courtyard” in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts, No. 44 (2002)
• Haken has also guest blogged on the JMWW Journal website from 2013-2018 for a column called Parallax, sometimes under his own names and sometimes under the pen name J. Barook.
  • https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/parallax-does-it-hurt-by-nate-haken/
  • https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/parallax-christmas-in-onitsha-by-j-barook/
  • https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/parallax-speculation-by-j-barook/
  • https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/parallax-gulu-uganda-2010-by-j-barook/
  • https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/parallax-somewhere-over-kogi-2013-by-j-barook/*
  • https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/parallax-jos-nigeria-2013-by-j-barook/
  • https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/parallax-douala-cameroon-1990-by-j-barook/

Haiku

• “election day” in Modern Haiku, 36:3 (2005)
• “late for work” in Sixth Annual Saruga Baika Literary Festival: Selected Works (Numazu: Daichuji Temple, 2004).
• “cockfight” in Frogpond, 27:3 (2004)
• “morning commute” in Frogpond, 27:2 (2004)
• “voicemail” in Modern Haiku, 35:3 (2004)
• “thunderstorm watch” in Modern Haiku, 35:1 (2004)
• “graveside” in The Heron’s Nest, 6:11 (2004)
• “tipping back” in The Heron’s Nest, 6:7 (2004)
• “butchering a rabbit” in The Heron’s Nest, 6:2 (2004)
• “cigarette break” in Modern Haiku, 34:1 (2003)
• “unemployed—” in The Heron’s Nest, 5:10 (2003)

Non-Fiction

• What ‘Worshipping the Same God’ Means in Global Context” in Sojourners (December 2015); https://sojo.net/articles/what-worshiping-same-god-means-global-context
• Violence in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends, co-authored with Patricia Taft (Springer: 2015); https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319149349
• “A CAST Case-Study: Assessing Risk in the Niger Delta” in Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism” co-authored with Patricia Taft (November 2012); https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-5311-6_22
• “Backlash against Kony 2012: Where are the Voices of Ugandans?” in The Christian Science Monitor (March 19, 2012), co-authored with Patricia Taft; https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0319/Backlash-against-Kony-2012-Where-are-the-voices-of-Ugandans
• “Obama Must Learn from Past Mistakes in Fight Against Uganda’s LRA” in The Christian Science Monitor (October 26, 2011), co-authored with Patricia Taft; https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/1026/Obama-must-learn-from-past-mistakes-in-fight-against-Uganda-s-LRA
• “The Undeveloping World: The Eurozone’s Weakest Have Taken a Hit in the Latest Failed States Index” in Foreign Policy, co-authored with Alessandra Wasserstrom (June 2011). https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/20/the-undeveloping-world/