Writer, Mom, Explorer
I found out this week that a flash fiction story of mine was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50! The story, Exodus, was published last year in one of my favorite litmags, Reckon Review, after several rejections. So I’m even more chuffed to have it hit the longlist. Thank you to Venita Blackburn, the Wigleaf…
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I was honored to have Steve Harvey from The Humble Essayist choose one of my essays for his weekly paragraph close read. He chose an essay, “On the incessant, inescapable, infinite, unraveling, meandering, indifferent and heartless road: A map” originally published in Bending Genres in 2021. Read more of The Humble Essayist here and his…
I’m delighted to share my flash fiction, The Ways of Karst, which was one of 20 chosen for the Fractured Lit 2022 Anthology Prize by acclaimed short story writer, Deesha Philyaw.
I am delighted to have my short #cnf piece, Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch included in And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, edited by Hannah Grieco, AltCurrent Press, January 2022. This incredibly diverse anthology includes a widely talented group of writers like Aubrey Hirsch, Barlow Adams, Leslie Walker Trahan, Jennifer…
One of the enduring memories of my childhood, the first time I remember some place we had visited before. The famous Biloxi lighthouse on the Gulf Coast always leads me home. Excerpt: “A map is a thing used for navigation that sits in the glove box or between the front seat and the middle console,…
Lately I’ve become interested in the construction of the essay. I want to know more about the essay. How it works. How it serves as a means of exploring the world. How it can help me make meaning of my own life and form a larger understanding of the world. I’ve been writing mostly personal…