I wrote a story about a character named Taylor Swift, and SmokeLong Quarterly was kind enough to publish it. I'm delighted and grateful to see my work appear beside such talented authors in a literary magazine I have admired for years. I hope you'll read everything in SLQ's … [Read more...]
Hop into a Car: A Week of Beginnings
There’s a pre-school across the street from my bedroom window with an inviting red door. I’ve been paying attention to doors and openings lately—and to this door in particular. This morning I watch a father dropping his little girl off for the day. She looks tense about it, and … [Read more...]
Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize
Copper Nickel published three of my stories in the Spring 2020 print issue, and I am delighted to announce the magazine has awarded me their Editors' Prize in Prose for Issue 30 for the "most exciting" work in the issue as determined by a vote of their full staff. This was a … [Read more...]
Cut on the Bias
"It gives you satisfaction to be a woman tying men down. When you see your work cinched under the Adam’s apples of men on the street, you open a button on your blouse. You let the wind have at your throat. At least this, you think." My latest flash fiction, "Cut on the Bias," … [Read more...]
Love in the Time of Brad Pitt’s First Marriage
When I lived in Santiago in my twenties, my roommate and I kept seeing a guy in our neighborhood who looked just like Brad Pitt. OK, maybe just a little bit like Brad Pitt. It was more about his attitude than his eyes. He had a cool leather jacket and slick (kind of greasy) hair … [Read more...]
