• Author News

    Summer 2017 Publications

    Thanks to many terrific editors and literary magazines, my words have found some lovely homes. The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review published “On Her Skin.” (If you subscribe and “adopt” me, I receive 60% of the funds.) Cheap Pop gave “The Spider and…

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    Spring 2017 Publications

    While the vines outside my window bud and grow, new stories are imagined and written. Necessary Fiction published “Office Women: Three Portraits and Thirteen Questions,” in which I introduce three women who have found different ways to escape the bleak lives in which they feel imprisoned.…

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    Tilt Festival

    Find me in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on March 30 where I will speak about the Writer’s Taboo. In Dutch. More information: http://www.tiltfestival.nu/programma

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    Winter 2017 Publications

    Writing a novel is a longterm project. At least, it is for me. I may write a 1,000 words a day, but I’ve never written a novel in three months. I write and read back and rewrite and pause and question…

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    The Men on the Fence

    So proud my writing is featured in TriQuarterly. The story about empathy and territorial borders is, unfortunately, very relevant today. From Issue 151 – Winter/Spring 2017, preview of “The Men on the Fence.” The boy watches them from the outdoor pool, the…

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    Coincidence

    How is this for a coincidence? I take a pocket book with me to the US to read while on the road. It’s an old anthology from TriQuarterly—short stories are great for traveling. In the metro I devour Richard Brautigan.…