“I have unreserved admiration for the ongoing experiment of her writing; there are too few writers like her. She is an experimental writer by nature — a good one — and refuses to limit her significant talents to a single field.”

— John Irving

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selected Works


Writing

  • Dark Winter Press, Grace before the Fall, novel (forthcoming, 2025)

  • Double Exposure Press, Some Poems for Children co-authored by Diane Stevenson and James Berger (forthcoming, 2025)

  • Minerva Rising: The Keeping Room, “A Lesson in Art & Life,” (forthcoming, 2024)

  • Southern Lit. Review, “The World According to those Enslaved Against their Will,” (forthcoming, 2024)

  • Litbreak.org, “Beklemmt,” (May 2024)

  • Terrain.org, Book Review of Ann Fisher-Wirth’s Paradise is Jagged, “The Broken Beauty of Grief…” (2024)

  • Necessary Fiction, Book Review of Joan Connor’s The Corner of East and Dreams (2024)

  • Fantastic Imaginary Characters, Madville Publishing (2024)

  • Ms. Magazine

    • The Martyrs, the Lovers (2023) Book Review

    • “Of Women Who Walk…” (2022)

    • “What a Wonderful World This Could Be” (2021)

    • “Winter at the Heart of Appalachian Spring,” “How to Be Yourself…,” “To Comfort the Afflicted…,” “Dispatches from an NYC (Virtual) Classroom…,” “A Light into the Negative Space” (2020)

    • The Voices of Collateral Damage (2018) Book Review

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    • “The Apocryphal Book of Esther” (2023)

    • “My Life as a Vase” (2017) Prose Poem

  • Amethyst Review, story, “An Exaltation of Stars,” (October 2023)

  • Atticus Review, Book Review of Genevieve Plunkett’s, In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel (2023)

  • Terrain.org,

    • Book Review of Melissa Sevigny’s Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (2023)

    • Book Review of Sharman Apt Russell’s, Within Our Grasp: Children’s Malnutrition…(2022)

  • Ucityreview, three poems (2023)

  • Fig Tree Newsletter, “Laying Joi to Rest” (2022)

  • BigCityLit, “Saint of the Lepers,” (2022)—nominated for Pushcart Prize, nominated for Best of the Net

  • The Rupture, “Book Review of Ferne, A Detroit Story,” (2022)

  • hushlit.com, “New York Uterus,” “The Continuing, Ever-enduring Tales…” (2022)

  • Orca, A Literary Journal, “Song without Words” (2021)—nominated for Pushcart Prize

  • The Rumpus

    • “Daughter as Mother to the Woman,” (2021)

    • “Language is the Spell: Kathryn Nuernberger’s The Witch of Eye” (2021)

  • Blueline, “Gossamer Night, Canada Lake” (2021)

  • BLARB ,“Manifesting the Everywoman’s Story” (2019)

  • Blue Lake Review, “Urobor” (2019)

  • Talking Writing “From My Heart to Your Heart, My Daughter (2019)

  • Of the World that Freely Offers Itself: An Exploration of Writerly/Artistic Rituals (2016)

  • The Toast, Wellspring House: On Having a Retreat Of One’s Own (2014)

  • Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, “In the Beginning of the End” Poem; “Slow Dance of the Heart” Fiction. Pearson Publishing (2014)

  • The Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board, “All Traces of the Fallacy Dawn” Story; Spuyten Duyvil Press (2014)

  • Kalliope, "In Whose Hands We Trust" (2001)
 Fiction

  • Fishing in the Holy Waters (1986) Article

  • The New York Times, Long Island Opinion; Eternal Truths Among the Strawberries (1985)

  • Black Warrior Review, "The Survivors"; nominated for Foley Award (1976) Fiction

Reading

Praise