[8] With Karl Ove Knausgård and Wayne Koestenbaum,[9] Sloan delivered a keynote address at the NonfictioNOW conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2017.

Kate Schapira, Pank Magazine, reviewing The Fluency of Light (2013):"Many essays in the collection are more intimate: with anger and image, music and grief, they mediate the smaller but similarly absorbing complexities of family.

Mishearing, misunderstanding, selfishness, illness, and stress; economic segregation, environmental injustice, systematic incarceration; the "something fragile" that composes walls, floor, the ceiling that falls in chunks while the author and her father await her mother's arrival; the flickerings of gentleness and love.

"[13]About her most recent book, essayist and cultural critic Kiese Laymon wrote: "Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit is an otherworldly meditation on the elasticity of memory, the liveliness of blackness and possibilities of the essay.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan manages to produce a collection of essays that are at once innovative, inspiring, sobering, and absolutely terrifying while daring every other essayist in the country to catch up.