Stories
“Resistance is Not Futile, Despite What Gabriel and the Daleks Say.” The Faerie Review (2024).
“Hope Matters, 1970-2020.” Tulsa Review 9 (2022-23). Reprinted Fear of Monkeys 45 (2023).
“A Long Day’s Journey: Christmas Decorating with the Tyrones.” Flights (2021): 36-47.
“Paying for College Before #MeToo.” Evening Street Review 32 (Winter, 2021): 64-73.
“Refusing to Call it Incest,” Madison Review 46.1 (2021): 148-156.
“And Still You Choose Denial.” Moon City Review, forthcoming, Spring 2021.
“Evaporating.” Euphony 20.2 (2020): 51-56.
“Daddy’s Girl.” Good Works Review 4 (2020); Reprinted: Penman Review (Spring, 2021);
Reprinted: Apricity Magazine 5 (2021).
“Saint Anne and the Sometimes Maybe Miraculous Conceptions.” Maryland Literary Review (Spring/Summer 2020).
“‘Little Victories and Big Defeats’: How I Became an Artist, a Feminist, and a Personal Associate.” Sweet Tree Review 4.4 (2019); armarolla 5 (2020).
“Mikimoto Mama.” Green Hills Literary Lantern 30 (2019).
“The Last Two Malloys.” Sand Hill Review (2014). Chosen for inclusion in Sand Hill Review‘s 2014 Fiction Anthology available at Amazon.com.
“Mrs. Daley’s Diamond Ring.” Crack The Spine 95 (2013). Chosen for inclusion in Crack The Spine’s Spring 2014 Anthology available at Amazon.com.
“Virginity: The Bible, The Beatles, and Bubble Gum.” A River & Sound Review 9 (2013).
“In The Backseat of a Mustang Convertible on Memorial Day in the Rain.” Superstition Review 12 (2013).
“Satan’s Snakes, Vanilla Cokes.” Calyx 25.2 (2009).
“I Always Felt Like I was on Good Terms with the Virgin Mary, Even Though I Hadn’t Gotten Pregnant in High School.” Phoebe: Gender and Cultural Critique 20.1 (2008); Kestrel 22 (2009); Tiny Lights 15 (2010). Awarded 2009 Tiny Lights first prize for personal essay.
“Holy Cards.” Witness 21 (2007); Rock & Sling 4.2 (2007).
“At the Kitchen Window.” Zone 3 22.2 (2007).
“Practice Boyfriend.” The Rambler 4.6 (2007).
“First Kiss, with Only Shakespeare To Protect Me.” The Dirty Goat 16 (2007); Westview 28.2 (2008).
“Why Did Sister Veronica Really Call?” Stringtown 9 (2006).
“Santa Anna and the Sewer Creatures.” Willow Review 33 (2006).
“Barfing in the First Grade.” Poemmemoirstory 6 (2006).
“Front Window or The Case of Bones and Bone China.” Compass Rose 7 (2005-6).
“Porridge.” Lullwater Review 15.2 (2005).
“Bishop O’Brien’s Child’s Guide to Avoiding Temptation and the Miracle of Sylvia DiStephano’s Rosary.” Italian Americana 23.2 (2005).
“Assignment 13: Compare And Contrast Two of Your Relatives.” Northwest Review 43.2 (2005).
“Staten Island Ladies of Cootras.” Fugue 7 (2004): 176-186.
“Why Is God in Daddy’s Slippers?” South Carolina Review 37.1 (2004).
“September 11th Blue.” Paterson Literary Review 33 (2004).
Writing Awards
“In The Backseat of a Mustang Convertible on Memorial Day in the Rain.” Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings competition, 2014.
“I Always Felt Like I was on Good Terms with the Virgin Mary, Even Though I Hadn’t Gotten Pregnant in High School,” staged reading performed by Petaluma Readers Theatre, Petaluma, CA, June 2012.
Tiny Lights Journal Annual First Prize for Personal Essay: “I Always Felt Like I was on Good Terms with the Virgin Mary, Even Though I Hadn’t Gotten Pregnant in High School,” 2009.
“Barfing in the First Grade” nominated for inclusion in the new Norton Best Creative Nonfiction Anthology, 2006.
The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English. (Manchester University Press and St. Martin’s Press, 1994.) Mina Shaughnessy Award, 1995. Awarded annually by the MLA for an outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language and literature.
