BOOKS

  • The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories - Coming March 2024 from Finishing Line Press. Seven short stories and one novella inspired by real and imaginary artists and their subjects that explore the power of art and the boundaries of the human heart. Called "luminous" by LA Times Festival of Books judge Diane Smith. Pre-order now

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  • "Still Life with Cherries." Southern Humanities Review, Fall 2023. Louise Moillon, the French Huguenot still-life painter, grows up in 17th C Paris and becomes a painter. Excerpt from the novel The Remedy of Light.
  • "The Beautiful Gaze." The Southern Humanities Review, Fall 2021. The painter John Singer Sargent recovers from the scandal of his painting "Madame X" and starts to paint again.
  • "The Death of Ria Munk." The Southern Humanities Review, Fall 2020. A young Viennese woman kills herself over a broken heart and the artist Gustav Klimt paints her portrait. Nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize.
  • "My Father, the Atomic Bomb." The Georgia Review, Fall 2019. A memoir essay on the narrator's search for her father through the history of the Manhattan Project.
  • "Roman Glass." The Shanghai Literary Review, December 2018. A Brooklyn art curator considers the history of art and discovers love.
  • "The Birthday of the Infanta." Ekphrastic Review, January 2018. The sister of Diego Velázquez meditates on his famous painting.
  • "Women Bathing." The Southern Humanities Review, Winter 2014. A novella of a young woman painter in late 19th century Paris.
  • "The Root System of Trees." The Tiferet Journal, Winter 2014. Winner of Tiferet’s 2013 Fiction Prize for best short story.
  • "Terminus." The Southern Humanities Review, Fall 2012. Inspired by the life of sharp shooter Annie Oakley. Winner of the 2012 Christian Hoepfner Award for best short story.
  • "A Merging of Head and Heart." Creative Nonfiction, 2003. An essay, reprinted in the anthology Rage and Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution. Southern Methodist University Press. 2005.
  • "Vermeer's Light." The Alaska Quarterly Review, 1997. A short story. Included in Summerset Review's list of best recommended stories.
  • "Father's Day." Other Voices, 1995. A short story.


AWARDS & RECOGNITION

  • Short-listed for novel publication, The Remedy of Light. Fjords Review. 2023.
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination for "The Death of Ria Munk," 2020.
  • Semi-Finalist, Masters Review Anthology, 2018.
  • Djerassi Resident Artists Program, June 2018. Awarded the McElwee Family Fellow.
  • Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Winter 2017.
  • Residency, Hedgebrook, A Retreat for Women Authors, 1994, 2011, 1013.
  • Finalist, Southwest Review's 2008 Fiction Award.
  • Finalist-Special-Mention, The Heekin Novel-in-Progress Award for Kahn's Law, a semi-autobiographical mystery about a daughter's search for information about her atomic scientist father.
  • Short-Listed for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.