Publications and Awards
Fiction
The River’s Bend Sessions (Excerpt), Fourteen Hills, Issue 31, May 2025
Holy Family, Day One, November 2015
Delivery Boy, Baltimore Review, Spring 2013
An Extraordinary Case, Word Riot, February 2013
A Different Language, Harpur Palate, Volume 5, Issue I, 2005
The Liver Speaks, Night Train, Issue III, 2004
Selected Ploughshares blog posts
Olive Kitteridge and My Mother
Doughnuts Oozing Their Secrets: Emotion by Jo Ann Beard
Shirley Jackson, Madeleine L’Engle, and Motherhood
The Female Gaze and the Same Old Songs
When Parents Die: William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow and Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs
The Art of the Sad Birthday (also featured in LitHub Daily and in their “Best of the Week” newsletter)
Grace Paley’s “Wants”: Activism and Civic Involvement for Writers
Awards
Gina Berriault Work-in-Progress Award, Fourteen Hills, 2025
Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Fall 2014
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellowship, 2014
Artist-in-Residence, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, Connecticut, 2010
The John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction, Harpur Palate, 2005
Firebox Fiction Contest, Second Prize, Night Train, 2004
University of Arizona Foundation Award, 2001