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Selected Publications: Fiction + CNF
- Fiction
- Swamp Pink, “Flotsam,” 2024
- Vestal Review, “My Father, My King,” 2022
- StorySouth, “Arboretum,” 2017
- Connotation Press, “Airways,” 2017
- Adelaide Literary Magazine, “Everybody Needs Something,” 2017
- Adelaide’s Literary (Best of) Anthology, “Just Fine,” 2017
- Blackbird, “Marionette,” 2015
- Contrary Magazine, “Don’t Forget to Say Hello,” 2015
- The Ampersand Review, “Lucky Penny,” 2013
- Requited Journal, “Newborn Eyes,” 2013
- Fifth Wednesday Journal, “At the Auditorium,” (Pushcart Prize Nomination) 2012
- Essays
- Hippocampus, “The Shape of Grief,” 2024
- Electric Literature, "How to Love a Widower," 2025
- Permafrost, "A Flutter,a Rabble, a Wing," 2025
- Vol1. Brooklyn, “In Giron,” 2024
- HuffPost Personal, “365 Days,” 2024
- Catamaran Review, “What Would Odysseus Do,” 2023
- Mom Egg Review, “Becoming,” 2023
- StoryQuarterly, “El Coup,” (Pushcart Prize Nomination) 2022
- HuffPost Personal, “Here’s What I Learned about Grief,” 2021
- Literary Mama, “Kindergarten Pick-Up,” 2013
- Emerge Literary Journal, “Sometimes It’s a Pin Prick,” 2013
- Poetry
- Pedestal, “Paper Tiger,” 2022
MANUSCRIPTS (seeking representation for Novels)______________________________
THE WANT (Novel-Literary Fiction/85,000 words, 2025): A contemporary novel about a 32-year-old disillusioned office worker in NYC who spend her days responding to online customer complaints of off-brand household products while contending with her own dashed dreams. A darkly humorous exploration about the coming of age in young adulthood that requires letting go of past stories to create the life you want to live.
PAPER HOUSES (Novel-Literary Fiction/88,000 words, 2024): A dual-timeline/dual-pov novel set in 1984 and 2001 Chicago, intertwining a reclusive groundskeeper and a twelve-year-old girl as their search for missing loved ones intersect in surprising ways. A psychological exploration of mistaken identity, intimacy and the longing for connection.
IN OTHER KINDS OF WEATHER (Novel-Literary Fiction/90,000 words, 2022): A contemporary family drama about a recently laid-off family man who veers off course to save his family while a newly-single marriage counselor struggles to recreate herself. Trouble brews in their pristine suburb, questioning how well we know what is going on behind our neighbors' doors.
Short Story Collection:
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMETHING (Story Collection 60,000 words, CSU Press 2026: Winner of the Donald L Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence): A collection of stories exploring our human need for connection and the ways in which we struggle to attain it.
Non-Fiction:
A RABBLE, A FLIGHT, A WING: Notes on Grief and Belonging (CNF/30,000 words): A hybrid collection of creative non-fiction centering on various forms of loss and questions of belonging.
POETRY ON THE STREETS : A coffee table style collection of photographs and typewriter poetry about human emotions spontaneously written by everyday people on the street over three years
Forward printed in published chapbook by contest judge and author, Dennis Cooper, for winning novel excerpt, The New School Chapbook Competition
- ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS
- Non-fiction book: Limbu Folklore: the collection and translation of oral folklore from the Limbu people of Nepal. Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, India. 2004
- Chapbook: Searching Ana, Novel Excerpt, Winner of The New School Chapbook Award Series. Forward by contest judge, Dennis Cooper.
- Collaborative Middle Grade Book: The Great CT Caper, by 12 CT authors and artists. CT Humanities Council