Other Writing
AWARDS & HONORS
Things I’ll Tell My Daughter When She’s Older
Honorable Mention, WOMR Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, 2020
The Codeine of Jordan
Selected as a notable essay in The Best American Travel Writing 2012
Romanian Fish
Southeast Review, winner of the 2005 World’s Best Short Short Contest judged by Robert Olen Butler
SELECTED ARTICLES & ESSAYS
Windy City Blues’ Explores Racial Tension and Music in 1950s
Chicago Book Review, May 2017 | Read
The Talk: My Daughter’s Uterus, and Other Sex Ed She Refuses to Discuss With Me
Cognoscenti, October 2016 | Read
My Writerly Weakness: A Novel Not About Me?
NaNoWriMo Blog, September 2016 | Read Suggestions on how prepare for National Novel Writing Month Finding Your
Finding Your Landsfroyen: Friendship Is Important for Women Networking
The Movement Blog, August 2016 | Read
Confessions of a Non-Beach Person
Great Thoughts Blog, July 2016 | Read
Leaving Your Comfort Zone: Reading Out of Genre
Women’s Writers, Women’s Books, July 2016 | Read
The benefits of expanding your reading horizons
Rose’s Choice
JW Magazine, April 2016 | Read
An essay about learning of my great-grandmother’s abortion, which was the inspiration for Modern Girls
Mother-Daughter Drama and Choosing Abortion in the 1930s
The Lilith Blog | April 2016 | Read
Facing the Edits: 7 Steps to a Happy Revision
Writer’s Digest Guide to Literary Agents Blog, March 2016 | Read
Weekly blogger at The Debutante Ball, Sept 2015 to Aug 2016 | Read
FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Life and Death (and Life) of Miami Beach
In Season: Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places In Between, edited by Jim Ross, March 2018
Surface Routes
The MacGuffin, Winter 2016
Here But Not Here
Hippocampus Magazine, January 2016 | Read
The Baseness of Nature Short
Fiction Southeast, August 2015 | Read
The Codeine of Jordan
Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9, 2013, also selected as a notable essay in The Best American Travel Writing, 2012, Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2011
This Moment, Right Now Short
Sierra Nevada Review, Spring 2013
In Bulgaria
Sojourn, 2008
Romanian Fish
Southeast Review, winner of the 2005 World’s Best Short Short Contest judged by Robert Olen Butler
This Is What I Do
Natural Bridge, Fall 2003
What I Learned Living in New York
Under the Sun, Summer 1998