Fiction
Poetry
Essays
I am honored to have studied fiction with Helen Schulman, Jeffrey Renard Allen, Katherine Vaz, Mary Gordon, and Abigail Thomas, and poetry with Karen Swenson, Zoe Anglessey, and Marie Ponsot. My writing practice deepened while earning an MFA in Creative Writing at the New School in 2003 where I won its Fiction Prize. From 2003-2016 several of my stories and poems were published in literary journals; two won first prizes, two were nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and I received two grants from Vt Arts Council and Vt Community Foundation. I spent six weeks in Spain on a travel grant from the Jerome Foundation to write about flamenco in 2009/2010. My essay about the experience appeared online at 3Quarks Daily where I contributed essays on dance, theatre and literature from 2009 to 2016.
WRITING
Fiction & Poetry
Fuente Vaqueros / There’s This Place I Know
“At The Ballet" / Conclave: A Journal of Character
Pushcart Prize Nomination
“Just Like That” / Aphros
“Six Dreams” / 3 Quarks Daily
“Rowena Cahill” / Conclave: A Journal of Character
“Ave” / Gulf Coast
“Come Back” / Facere
“Bulerias” / Naugatuck River Review
“Mirador” / 3 Quarks Daily
The Giselle Room excerpts / New School Chapbook Prize Winner
“Mera” / Driftwood
“Soleà” from Meson Flamenco / Vox
“Lions In The Closet” / Rhapsoidia
“Not Here. Not Now. Not Ever.” / Unfinished Works Anthology
“Risi e Bisi" / Carve; Best of Carve; Maisonneuve
Pushcart Prize Nomination
“Meson Flamenco NYC” / South Dakota Review
Essays for 3 Quarks DailY
“Somebody Nailed My Dress To The Wall”
“Faster, Terpsichore, Faster!”
“Stamp Your Feet. Hard.”
“Directing OUR TOWN.”
Interviews with Helen Schulman, Jonathan Dee, Karen Swenson, and Edward Bilous
Grants & Awards
Arts and Literature Award finalist / 3 Quarks Daily
Winner, New School Chapbook Prize / The Giselle Room, a novel
Travel Grant for poetry / The Jerome Foundation
Winner, Unfinished Works / “Not Here. Not Now. Not Ever.”
Finalist, Vox Prose Poem Contest / “Solea” March 2006
Finalist, Orchid Literary Prize / “Rowena Cahill”
Finalist, Meridian Fiction Contest / “Rowena Cahill”
Pushcart Pnze Nomination “Risi e Bisi”
Finalist, Raymond Carver Story Prize / “Risi e Bisi”
Vermont Community Fund Grant 2004 / story collection
Vermont Arts Council Grant 2004 / story collection
Matt Clark Prize 2004 / “Lions In The Closet”
Education
MFA Fiction, New School 2003