My writing credits:

• I earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and worked as a writer-in-residence and creative writing professor at St. Lawrence University. Yaddo artists' colony granted me a residency.
• My short fiction has won top awards from Barnard College and from the Poets and Writers Exchange.
• Recently, an illustrated story of mine appeared in Narrative Magazine and a story from "The Doorwoman," a noir novel, appeared in the anthology Austin Noir. 
• I placed three times as a finalist and semifinalist in the Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Contest.
• My short fiction has been published in, among other places: The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Ascent, New Texas, and Madison Smartt Bell's anthology, Narrative Design.
• My nonfiction has appeared in Narrative, Ladies' Home Journal, The North American Review, the Austin American-Statesman, and the anthology Stricken: the 5,000 Stages of Grief. The Ladies' Home Journal piece won a national health journalism award.
• My writing has been described as "poignant," "nuanced," and having a "sly humor."