BOOKS:

Desire: Women Write About Wanting, edited by Lisa Solod, Seal Press, Fall 2007

PUBLICATIONS: Fiction

“Salt,”, scribblersontheroof

“A Case of You,” Meridian, Spring, 2007.

“Take Care,” literarymama.com, May 2007

“The Protective Order,” Penwomanship, 2005.

“If You Never Hear From Him, That Just Means He Didn’t Call,” Summer’s Love, Winter’s Discontent, Lonesome Traveller (sic) Publishing, 1999.

“Where We Live,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, A Journal of Accessible Southern Fiction and Poetry, Issue Two, Winter/Spring 1999.

“A Month in the Country,” An Inn Near Kyoto, Edited by Kathleen Coskran and C.W. Truesdale, New Rivers Press, 1998.

“The Visit,” The American Voice, No. 36, 1995

“Ain’t Got Wings,” Tales of the Heart, Spring, 1994.

“The Hat,” Good Stories, Number 16, June 1994 (Great Britain)

“Nightswimming,” Parting Gifts, Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 1994-95.

“Marriage: Year Thirty,” Housewife-Writer’s Forum, September-October 1993, Volume 6. #5.

PUBLICATIONS: Non-Fiction Essays

“A Clean Well-Cluttered Place,” Dirt: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House, Seal Press, May, 2009

“After the Happily Ever After,” Desire: Women Write About Wanting, Seal Press, November, 2007

“Southern Jew,” Matzo Balls for Breakfast, the Free Press, 2004.

“My French Fetish,” France, A Love Story, Seal Press, August 2004.

Edward Gorey interview, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin, editor, Harcourt, Inc., hardcover, 2001; paperback, 2002.

“Why I Live Here,” Brown Alumni Monthly, March/April 1999.

“Women in Heels,” Tales from a Small Planet, February 2001 (on-line magazine for expatriates), 2002.

“French with a Multicultural Accent,” International Herald Tribune, April 27, 2002.

RECENT JOURNALISM

“Mean Girls, The Next Generation” (cover story), Brain, Child magazine, Spring 2006

SCREENPLAY

“Fair Trade” screenplay, a finalist in the Screenplay Festival Contest, 2003.

CONTEST AWARDS: Fiction

“A Case of You,” Runner up for the 2007 Editors’ Fiction Prize, Meridian,

Novel Krenk semi- finalist in the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel Prize, Tennessee Book Awards, 2006.

Novel Night and Storm semi- finalist in the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel Prize, Tennessee Book Awards, 2006.

“A Case of You” received an Honorable Mention in the 2003 New Millennium Fiction Prize.

“Salt” received an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest, 2004.

My short story collection, Take Care was a finalist in the Elixir Short Fiction contest, 2004.

“The Blue Door” won an Honorable Mention in the Writers Works Travel Fiction Contest and was a finalist in the Spout Fiction Contest, both in 2004.

“Marriage: Year Thirty,” won second place in Housewife-Writer’s Forum fiction contest, 1993. That same year it received an Honorable Mention in the Hemingway Days Literary Contest.

“A Month in the Country,” received an Honorable Mention in the Iowa Woman Fiction Contest, 1993.

Novel “Night and Storm,” semi-finalist in the Pirate’s Alley Fiction Contest, 1993.

CONFERENCE SELECTIONS, FELLOWSHIPS:

Featured Speaker at Sedalia Writers Conference, May 2009.

Fourteen fellowships to the Virginia Center for The Creative Arts, Mt. St. Angelo, Sweet Briar, Virginia 1989-2009.

Featured speaker: Roanoke Regional Writers' Conference, January, 2009

Panel head, "Women Writing Desire," Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference, Chicgo, February 2009.

“Salt,” Chosen as the only short story to be read at the 2007 Deep South Conference of Writers, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.