Last June, Crack the Spine Literary Journal published a short story of mine in their 117th weekly issue. This journal’s innovative publishing model features a weekly selection of fiction and poetry online, from which the editors select their content for a quarterly print anthology. Toward the end of 2014, I received word that my piece would be included in the CTS print anthology. And not only that, but it was one of three pieces the editors had nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize! I’m pleased to share that the print anthology containing “Half a World Away” (formerly titled “Commando”) is now available for purchase.
Writing-Wise
Why I'm Thankful for A Viable Paradise
In October I attended my first workshop for speculative fiction writers. A Viable Paradise 18 was held on Martha’s Vineyard, where the season stood on the cusp of change. It was still warm when I got there, the leaves mostly green. I came back a different person. It’s been interesting to observe the shift.
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"Commando" Published in Crack the Spine
My story “Commando” is featured in this week’s issue of Crack the Spine. “Commando” is a coming-of-age tale that examines a young woman’s fraught relationship with her body, her mother, and the world. I tried many points of view, many structural experiments, and what finally seemed to work was this combination of simultaneous removed narrative distance (neither character is named) and intimate perspective. Have a read and feel free to comment, either here or at CTS. I’d love to know what you think!
"No Cover" Published in Cirque
“No Cover in Tucson,” a vignette about my visit to the Southwest as a love-starved Alaskan in 2005, is featured in the current issue of Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim. A PDF of the issue is available for download through the journal’s website; hard copy can be ordered online. It’s a fine issue full of established and emerging talent from the far north. The radio version of this piece is also available in the nonfiction samples page of Uncanny Vale.
Text of "The Barn" Available in Uncanny Vale
I’m delighted to share the text of my story “The Barn,” among the fiction samples on my creative writing website. This piece, first published in Praxis: Gender and Cultural Critiques in 2012, was seven years in the writing. I never would have guessed, before I started writing short stories, that they might require a degree of time and effort comparable to that spent on a novel.