Happy to have the first 40 pages of my novel excerpted in the literary journal, West Trade Review. Click here.
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No chemistry with chemistry
I’m happy to share my latest essay, out today at Inside Higher Ed. A story of carbon bonds, the value of struggle and oh yes, the lost art of humility. Click here.
Coming in 2023
I’m happy to share that my story, “Beauty Queen,” has been accepted for publication in The MacGuffin, Volume 38.3. Victory, mortification and misogyny on a sleepaway camp stage.
“Shadeland” Upcoming
I’m delighted that Round Table Literary Journal, a 55-year-old award-winning publication, has accepted my short story, “Shadeland,” for an upcoming issue. A piece about time and love and stolen lamps.
Baby Goldman to be Excerpted
Out Today
I’m delighted to have published “The Suitor” with the beautiful literary journal, Book of Matches. Here is a link to Issue 5.

More Praise for Baby Goldman
I’m honored to be included in Issue 16 of Embark, a literary magazine devoted to novels-in-progress. Out today, the first chapter of Baby Goldman, accompanied by an author statement, shares space with nine other inspiring excerpts. Please read and follow the publication, which is dedicated to supporting writers and their work.
Once Upon a Time…
Read the opening of my novel-in-progress, which just won the Arch Street Press First Chapter Contest.
http://www.archstreetpress.org/2022/02/07/baby-goldman/
“Matchbox,” Out Today
A story about a date and a tiny car. Happy to be published in Brilliant Flash Fiction, where a lot happens in fewer than 1,000 words.
Click here and scroll down to “Matchbox.”
Novel News
So, you decide to write a nonfiction book about an event in your family’s past and then realize that the tale is best told as fiction, sending you to the rewrite room to begin anew. And begin you do, thinking you’ve made the correct decision but are not really sure…until you test the wordy waters and submit your first chapter to a first chapter contest–why they heck not?–and you win. Ta dah. So fun. So excited.
Being-a-Writer Lesson # 587: Drive off the road.
Thank you Arch Street Press for selecting my work-in-progress and putting it out in the world.
Watch this space for details.