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FICTION
- Swamp Pink, Flotsam
- Vestal Review, My Father, My King
- Blackbird, “Marionette”
- StorySouth, “Arboretum”
- Connotation Press, “Airways”
- Adelaide Literary Magazine, “Everybody Needs..."
- Adelaide’s Literary (Best of) Anthology, “Just Fine”
- Fifth Wednesday Journal, “At the Auditorium”
- Contrary Magazine, “Don’t Forget to Say Hello”
- The Ampersand Review, “Lucky Penny”
- Requited Journal, “Newborn Eyes”
- Postcard Shorts,“Breathe, Just Breathe”
- Literary Mama,“Kindergarten Pick-Up”
- New School Chapbook Publication, "Searching Anna"
NON-FICTION
- Hippocampus, The Shape of Grief
- StoryQuarterly, El Coup
- Catamaran Literary Review, What Would Odysseus Do
- Mom Egg Review, Becoming
- HuffPost Personal, "What I Learned About Grief..."
- HuffPost Personal, "Secret Menopause"
POETRY
- Pedestal "Paper Tiger"
- Emerge Literary Journal, “Sometimes It’s a Pin Prick”
WRITING AWARDS
- Winner of Marianne Russo Award for Novel-in-Progress, Key West Literary Seminars, 2022
- Writer-in-Residence, Monson Arts, 2024
- Writer-in-Residence , Kimmel Harding Nelson, 2024
- Pushcart Prize Nominations, Short Story, "At the Auditorium,” and Essay, "El Coup."
- Winner of The New School Chapbook Award in Fiction
- 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"
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