My short story “Goody Two Shoes” is in the summer 2024 issue of Floyd County Moonshine. This is my first short story published in a print journal! This journal that brews up “smooth home-distilled literature” is the perfect home for my story about Rose, a dissatisfied, thrifty, coupon-clipping homemaker who dreams […]
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New Essay in the Los Angeles Times: She Seeks Romance at the Seashore
I have a new essay out in the Los Angeles Times this morning! It will be in the print edition on Sunday under the title “She Seeks Romance at the Seashore”–I love this title, which the editors came up with, because of the way it’s reminiscent of the tongue twister: “She […]
I’m Feeling Refreshed, and The Blog Is Back
I took a hiatus from my blog, The Write Stuff, around this time last year. I’d been posting every week for two years, right here on my website. I was working on some especially time-consuming projects at the time, I wasn’t feeling the same joy I’d previously felt while writing the […]
My Book MS Is on Coverfly’s 2024 Summer Holiday Reading List!
I’ve shared with you that, a couple of years ago, I entered and won a couple of prose writing contests on a film industry platform called Coverfly. I did this in an attempt to show prospective agents that my book is literary-leaning, yes, but it also has cinematic/commercial potential. Last […]
New Story in The Coachella Review: “The Big South”
My short story “The Big South” was published this morning in The Coachella Review. This story is from the novel-in-linked-stories I’m currently querying. It was inspired by the work of organizations like the Ventana Wildlife Society to bring the California condor back from the brink of extinction. Arguably, these birds are […]
New Story in New American Studies Journal: “Trees”
My short story “Trees” was published today in a special issue of the New American Studies Journal on women and work in the nineteenth century. This is an abridged version of the story that won ScreenCraft’s 2023 Cinematic Short Story Competition and is one of the stories in the collection […]