Writing

Fiction, Essays, Poetry

2022, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, Regal House, June 8th 2020 Finalist, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts  
January 2020, “Primates,” a short story in New Letters, 2019 winner of the New Letters Publication Award
“What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me,” Chapter One, Arch St. Press, honorable mention, November 2018
“Blood Moon,” a short story, Post Road, August 2018
“The Pork Chop: Navigating an Interfaith Marriage,” Tin House Open Bar, 2016
“Horror Movies,” Solstice, a short story, December 2016
“Serving Up Equal Justice: My Adventure with Serena Williams,” Medium, September 2015
“Temporary Shelter,” essay in Sister to Sister, An Anthology of Sister Relationships edited by Patricia Foster, 1996
“Shadow Dancing,” Boston Globe Magazine, personal essay, 1993
“Surrender,” a short story, Story Quarterly, 1990
“The Delollo Kid,” Boston Globe Magazine, 1989
"Putting Faces On The Unimaginable," a photo essay, Brown Alumni Monthly, 1989
“Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience,” Brown Alumni Monthly, 1989
“Sky King,” cover story, Boston Globe Magazine, 1989
“Birthday,” a short story, The Quarterly, 1985
“Geographer,” a poem, Poetry Northwest, 1983
“Visitor in the Cadaver Room,” a poem, Ploughshares, 1975

Awards

2020

Finalist, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts  

2019

Fellow, Brush Creek Arts, Saratoga Wyoming

Finalist, Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press Novel Contest, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, a novel

New Letters Publication Award in Fiction for “Primates,” a short story

Finalist, Key West Marianne Russo Award in fiction

Semi-finalist, Dzanc Books, Lesser Saints, a short story collection

Finalist, YesYes Books, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, a novel

Semi-finalist, Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, a novel

2018

Honorable Mention, Arch St. Press Meet Me @ 19TH Street First Chapter Competition “What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me,” November 2018
Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, October 2018

2017

Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writing Conference, July 2017
Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, November/December 2017
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train’s Emerging Writer Contest, May/June 2016 and January 2017
Scholar, Key West Writing Workshops, 2017

2016

Finalist, New Letters, Alexander Cappon Fiction Prize, for “Blood Moon,” a short story
Residency, NOEPE literary arts organization, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard

2015

Joan Jakobson Scholar, Wesleyan Writer’s Conference, June 2015
Contributor in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, August 2015

1985 and Before

PEN Discovery,  1985
Stegner Fellow, Stanford, 1980-82
Ploughshares Discovery, 1975
Contributor in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, August 1975