My story “St. Ellen” is out in Gulf Coast today. This is a story I worked on with my (incredible) advisor, Caitlin Horrocks, my very first semester at Warren Wilson. It took over two years for this to get published, and I am very happy it found a place with Gulf Coast. Please check it […]
Well, I did it: I graduated. After two and a half years, I received my MFA in fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Graduating felt good, but weird, and kind of sad? It was strange and wonderful having Al and the kids and my parents in Western North Carolina, where […]
I was honored to have my short story, “Nojento,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Water~Stone Review late last year. Recently, the WSR editors interviewed me about the piece, which you can find here. Sorry to have been a bit quiet on the blog lately. I am gearing up for my graduation from Warren Wilson […]
It’s been a fruitful few months for yours truly, in terms of publications and other stuff, so here’s a li’l update! In the summer, I published my first personal essay, “My Great Hunger,” in the Cincinnati Review. The editors at the CR were wonderful to work with, especially the Nonfiction Editor, Kristen Iversen, who helped […]
It’s been quite a week over here for yours, truly. I’m in the middle of a super-productive residency at VCCA, my story “Clarinet Lessons” won the 2021 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing, I turned thirty-nine, and another one of my stories, “The Hall of Human Origins,” was Highly Commended for the 2021 Bridport Prize. […]
I am proud to announce that my story, Clarinet Lessons, was selected by judge Charlotte Watson Sherman as the winner of the 2021 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing. The story is now on CALYX’s website and will be coming out in the summer/fall 2022 print edition. I’ve also done an audio recording to accompany […]
I am honored to have been named a VCCA Fellow for 2021! In late October, I will embark on a two-week residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Mt. St. Angelo, Virginia. VCCA hosts writers, visual artists, and composers, providing them with three meals a day plus private studio space to work. I […]
It’s been a while since I’ve done any humor writing. For six years, I wrote humorous (I think!) recaps of trash television shows for the now-defunct Previously.TV, but when I started focusing more on short fiction, I put humor writing aside. I missed making fun of the dummies on reality television, but I wasn’t being […]
Today I found out, rather belatedly, that my short story “Fourteen Meals” was shortlisted for the 2019 Faulkner-Wisdom short story competition. I had received an email from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society back in early September announcing the winners, but I must have clicked on the wrong link/failed to read the fine print, because I […]
More big news around here: we welcomed a new baby, Calla Rowan, on September 17. I maaaay have forgotten to mention here that I was pregnant. Oops. I am chalking this up to Third Child Syndrome, in which the third child gets, if not short shrift, somewhat abbreviated shrift. Calla is only eight days old […]