Writings

Selected Nonfiction:

“Between Us," Five Minutes, 2026

“Care and Kara,” Fourth Genre, 2026

“All My Fathers,” Dorothy Parker’s Ashes and Memoir Monday, 2023

“The Ratio,*” StoryNews, 2020

“In Grief, an Anthem,” Caregiver Space, 2019

“Dazzlement, Midway Journal *, 2018

“Finding Nancy H.,” Thread, 2018

"Do-over," Quarter After Eight, 2018

“The Relative Nature of Things,”* Hunger Mountain, 2013

“Help,”* Bellevue Literary Magazine, 2007

“Better Homes & Losses,”* Florida Review, 2006

Longer:

Women Living Single, (Faber and Faber, 1996), nonfiction book examining the lives of women who have not married

Teaching Maggie (Ruminator, 2000)

Selected Fiction:

“The Dance of My Parents,”* London Independent Story Prize, 2019

“Rosaleen’s Rules for Living,” Hypertext, 2019

“The Secret Storm,” Entropy, 2019

“Hiding Lessons,”* Third Wednesday, 2019

"The Unmooring of the Gwendolyn II,"*, Bath Flash Fiction Four, 2019

“Sold,” Flexible Persona and Manawake Studios, 2018

“Father Daley’s Dilemma’s,” Medusa Laughs Press, 2018

“How to Count,” Flash Fiction Magazine, 2018

“My Father’s Garden,” Minerva Rising, 2017

“Pastor Bob’s Picnic,” SmokeLong Quarterly, 2017

“The Last Harvest,” Apeiron Review, 2017

"After the Lottery*,” Cloudbank, 2014

“Crosswords,” Quiddity,* 2010

“Mud Season,”* (first chapter of a novel) Quarterly West, 2005, and Illinois Artist Fellowship