Short Fiction

“We Own the Jetty”
Pangyrus (June 23, 2023)

“Why We’re Swimming With the Fishes”
The Drum (Issue 14 – July, 2011)

“Water Snakes”
Narrative (Fall, 2011)

“How to Be Sure You Want to Be a Farm Girl”
Hacks Anthology (Volume 1, Number 1 – Summer, 2007)
Carve Magazine (Volume 7, Number 3 – May 1, 2006)

“Icarus Summer”
The Free Press (Volume 1, Issue 4 – Spring, 2005)

Select Essays & Journalism

“The Resume”
Creative Nonfiction (Issue 74 – Winter 2021)

“Ballpoint Brontosaurus”
Brevity Word Press (July 12, 2019)

“What the Doctor Taught Me”
The Drum (Issue 60 – April, 2016)

“Genre Feeding Genre: A Novelist’s Adventure in Screenwriting”
Grub Street Daily (April 18, 2013)

“How I Spent My Nano Vacation”
Grub Street Daily (December 3, 2012)

“The Writer as Performance Artist”
Grub Street Daily (June 5, 2012)

“Hanging with Jodi Piccoult: At a Tarot Reading, the Author Looks for Answers and Doesn’t Like What She Hears”
The Boston Globe (April 11, 2008)

“Peter Guralnick’s American Roots”
The Free Press (Volume 4, Issue 1 – Summer 2006)

“Only Fools Rush In: A Defense of Elvis, Hookers, Vegas and Research”
The Free Press (Volume 3, Issue 3 – Summer 2006)

“Networking for Hermits; Think Not What Your Writing Community Can Do For You, But What You Can Do For Your Community”
The Free Press (Volume 3, Issue 2 – Fall 2005)

“A Conversation with Arthur Golden”
The Free Press (Volume 3, Issue 1 – Summer 2005)

“Revised Resolutions; Set and Achieve Realistic Writing Goals—Start Here”
The Free Press (Volume 2, Issue 4 – Spring 2005)

“Making the Most of the Manuscript Mart; Prepare for Your Consultation with an Agent or Editor”
The Free Press (Volume 2, Issue 4 – Spring 2005)

“The Magic Touch; A Conversation with Writer Jane Yolen”
The Boston Parents’ Paper (Volume XIII, No. 6 – January 2003)

“Shattered Lives; Family Homelessness in Massachusetts”
The Boston Parents’ Paper (Volume XVII, No. 6 – December 2000)

“‘The Hands That Rock the Cradle Rule the World’; Bay State Mothers March for Gun Control”
The Boston Parents’ Paper (Volume XVI, No. 12 – June 2000)

Honors

Second Place, Pangyrus Fiction Contest, “We Own the Jetty”
Forthcoming in Pangyrus (June 23, 2023)

Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2022, “The Resume”
Creative Nonfiction (Issue 74 – Winter 2021)

Top-25 Finalist, Glimmer Train’s  Short Story Award for New Writers
September/October 2017 for “We Own the Jetty”

Recipient, Emerging Artist Award
St. Botolph Club Foundation (2015)

Panelist, “New Approaches to Teaching Novel Writing”
AWP Conference (2012)

First Place, Bluestem AWP Postcard Contest, “Snow Globe”
Bluestem Magazine (2011)

Panelist, 2009 Writing Life Round Table
Harvard University

Finalist, 2006 Raymond Carver Short Story Award, “How to Be Sure You Want to Be a Farm Girl”
Carve Magazine (Volume 7, Number 3 – May 1, 2006)

Recipient, 2006 Ivan Gold Fiction Fellowship
The Writers’ Room of Boston.

First Place, Grub Street Fiction Contest, “Icarus Summer”
The Free Press (Volume 1, Issue 4 – Spring, 2005)

Full Teaching Fellowship
Boston University Creative Writing Program Fall (2004)

Carl S. Ell Scholarship
Northeastern University (Fall 1993 – Spring 1998)

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