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PUBLICATIONS
- Swamp Pink, Flotsam (story- forthcoming)
- Hippocampus, The Shape of Grief (essay)
- StoryQuarterly, El Coup (essay)
- Vestal Review, My Father, My King (flash)
- Blackbird, “Marionette” (story)
- StorySouth, “Arboretum” (story)
- Catamaran Literary Review, What Would Odysseus Do? (essay)
- Connotation Press, “Airways” (story and interview)
- Mom Egg Review, Becoming (essay)
- Huffington Post Personal, "What I Learned About Grief..." (essay)
- Pedestal "Paper Tiger" (poetry)
- Adelaide Literary Magazine, “Everybody Needs Something” (story)
- Adelaide’s Literary Anthology, (Best of 2017) “Just Fine” (story)
- Fifth Wednesday Journal, “At the Auditorium” (story)
- Contrary Magazine, “Don’t Forget to Say Hello” (story)
- The Ampersand Review, “Lucky Penny”
- Requited Journal, “Newborn Eyes” (flash)
- Postcard Shorts,“Breathe, Just Breathe”
- Literary Mama,“Kindergarten Pick-Up”
- Emerge Literary Journal, “Sometimes It’s a Pin Prick” (flash)
WRITING AWARDS
- Winner of Marianne Russo Award for Novel-in-Progress, Key West Literary Seminars
- Writer-in-Residence Award, Monson Arts, 2024
- Writer-in-Residence Award, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, 2024
- Pushcart Prize Nominations, Short Story, "At the Auditorium,” and CNF, "El Coup."
- Artist Fellowship Award- Fiction, CT Office of the Arts
- Shortlisted for: William Faulkner-Wisdom Competition in Novel; Sarabande Books' Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction; The Dana Awards for the Novel; Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest; Whidbey Writers Contest in Novel; Petrochor Reprint Award
- Winner of The New School Chapbook Award in Fiction
CONFERENCES
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
- Sewanee Writers' Conference
- AWP: Moderator and Presenter 2023 "Radical Empathy: Writing and Community Engagement as a form of Resistance"
- Wesleyan Writer's Conference, Full Merit Scholarship
- Key West Literary Seminars, Full Merit Scholarship
Manuscripts
PAPER HOUSES (Novel-literary fiction) a dual-timeline twisty, psychological exploration of mistaken identity, longing and desire. Set in 1984 and 2001 Chicago, intertwining a reclusive groundskeeper and a twelve-year-old girl in their desperate searches to reconnect with missing loved ones.
IN OTHER KINDS OF WEATHER, (Novel-literary fiction), the cloaked normalcy of suburbia, questioning how well we truly know what is going on behind our neighbors’ doors, as a recently laid-off family man veers off course to save his family.
A FLIGHT, A RABBLE, A WING: Notes on Grief and Belonging: (CNF) a collection of creative non-fiction centering on various forms of loss.
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMETHING (Story Collection) a collection of short stories exploring our human need for connection and the ways in which we struggle to attain it.
POETRY ON THE STREETS : A coffee table style collection of photographs and typewriter poetry spontaneously written by everyday people on the street
- ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS
- Non-fiction book: Limbu Folklore: the collection and translation of oral folklore from the Limbu people of Nepal. Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, India. 2004
- Chapbook: Searching Ana, Novel Excerpt, Winner of The New School Chapbook Award Series. Forward by contest judge, Dennis Cooper.
- Collaborative Middle Grade Book: The Great CT Caper, by 12 CT authors and artists. CT Humanities Council