short stories
*PSUEDOCYESIS—finalist in the EM Koeppel Fiction Contest 2005, A short story about travel and transformation, published in Storyglossia, Issue twenty, Summer 2007
*THE DARKROOM—inspired by the photography of Sally Mann, winner of The Writer’s Eye competition by the University of Virginia’s Bayly Art Museum, 2004
*OUR BOY, POWHATAN—written for the “Faces of Motherhood” column at Literary Mama in late 2006, this essay contemplates the complexities mothering a bi-racial boy.
*WORTH—a short story about motherhood and class published in Literary Mama, January 2009.
*WAITING—an essay contemplating motherhood, published in Salome Magazine
MR. RAM AND THE BREATHING LESSONS—commended entry to Piedmont Writers Institute’s 2005 Fiction Contest, inspired by travels in Southern India and news of the tsunami.
*IN THE HOSPITAL—a poem about my a stay in the hospital to remove non-cancerous fibroid tumors, published in Salome Magazine.
*GIFTS—a mother/daughter favorite about scrap-booking and obsession, published in Antithesis Common. A newer version of this Story is part of my collection of middle school stories, The One You Remember
*WHERE ARE YOU?—an essay I wrote before the 2004 presidential election, published in Salome Magazine.
*THE WATER CAVE—just coming to coming of age, eleven year old Lannie Bishop sets out to find a forbidden place, published Oct 2008 at Salome Magazine, podcasted here, and part of collection, The One You Remember.
*ONE LEG AT A TIME—an essay about the intersection of motherhood and writing, publish in Salome Magazine June, 2006
*THE FOURTH LEVEL—a fictionalized look into the real life events of hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans.