• Awards Eligibility 2018

    It’s awards season, y’all, and that means the annual eligibility posts are out and about. I’m thrilled to look back on this last year of my professional life; I taught my first classes for adults, heard LeVar Burton read my short story to a packed live audience, hosted another successful Art & Words Show, and…

  • “Angry Kings”

    I’ve got a novelette up at Beneath Ceaseless Skies today. This one is called “Angry Kings” and was inspired by all the fairy tale stories of kings and their daughters and how terribly those daughters are often treated. I wanted to explore the psyches of such kings without offering forgiveness for their terrible behavior; the…

  • Exploring Grief in Fairy Tales

    A few years ago, after the death of my beloved uncle, my family and I traveled to be with my aunt and her daughter. Since my uncle’s death, my aunt and her daughter had taken to spending every day and night together. Their renewed connection through shared grief struck me as one of the most…

  • I’ve got a new story in Hobart: “Liars”

    I’ve got a new story in Hobart: “Liars”

    Today’s P’s and my wedding anniversary, which makes it kind of weird that my story about a woman grieving the death of her artist husband appears on Hobart’s website today. I am so very lucky to have my partner. I am so very sad for my character Evie. But she works through it, with the…

  • “The Orangery”–Beneath Ceaseless Skies (plus some photos of trees)

    “The Orangery”–Beneath Ceaseless Skies (plus some photos of trees)

    Today my very first novelette publication released online for free reading! “The Orangery” is available at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This one comes from my fascination and repulsion with women-turning-into-trees narratives. I say fascination because I have always loved trees. For years I have taken photos of beautiful trees when I travel. In college I used…