Publications

  • “Enough” (poem) Cream City Review, 1999
  • “My Cousin’s Journey with AIDS” (op-ed) News-Times Community Forum, 1999
  • “Mangoes” (essay) Cream City Review, 1999
  • “Bat Anatomy” (poem) Connecticut Review, 1999
  • “The Accident” (poem) Motherhood Anthology, 2000
  • “Calla Lilies” (essay) Poem-Memoir-Story, 2001
  • “Instead” (poem) Poetry Motel, 2001
  • “Slate Roof” (op-ed) News-Times Community Forum, 2003
  • “Holding Ava” (poem) Runes, 2003
  • “38” (poem) Slipstream, 2003
  • “How my WestConn Education Changed My Life” (op-ed) News-Times Community Forum, 2003
  • “Aftermath” (poem) Roux, 2004
  • “Equinox” (poem) Tar Wolf Review, 2005
  • “Singles Dance” (essay) Single Woman of a Certain Age, 2005, Inner Ocean Publishing
  • “Town Swap” (essay) Modern Love, The New York Times, 2005, www.nytimes.com
  • “Baseball” (essay recording) WSHU National Public Radio, 2006
  • “Winter” (essay recording) WSHU National Public Radio, 2006
  • “I am the Aunt” (poem) Miranda Literary Magazine, 2006
  • “The Lynching of 2005” (poem) Miranda Literary Magazine, 2006
  • “September” (poem) Miranda Literary Magazine, 2006
  • “Second Chances” (essay) Fairfield Review, 2006
  • “The Year After My Divorce” (poem) White Pelican, 2006
  • “Gina’s Deli” (essay recording) WSHU National Public Radio, 2006
  • “Dogs” (essay recording) WSHU National Public Radio, 2006
  • “Bliss Nails”(essay recording) WSHU National Public Radio, 2006
  • “Mailbox”(essay recording) WSHU National Public Radio, 2006
  • “Winter” (op-ed) News-Times Community Forum, 2007
  • “The Last Time I Saw My Brother Alive” (poem) Connecticut Review, 2007
  • “The Last Time I Saw My Brother Alive” Cloven Sphere, Anthology, 2007
  • “What You Reach for Determines your Future” (fiction) Chataqua Literary Review, 2007
  • “A Woman’s Weight…” (essay) News-Times Jill Magazine, 2007
  • “Wayne’s Learn-to-Drive” (play) World Audience, 2007
  • “Town Swap” (essay) Anthology Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion, 2007
  • “Losing Altitude” Finalist in the 2007 Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Contest
  • “Girls of Summer” (essay) Primavera, 2008
  • “Genesis” (poem) Dos Passos Review, 2008
  • “Husband Wife at Dinner Party” Melusine, 2009
  • “Singles Dance” (essay) Single Woman of a Certain Age, 2009, reissued by New World Library
  • “Independence Day” More.com, 2009, www.more.com
  • “Story of my Hair” More.com, 2009, www.more.com
  • “Lost Sneaker” (essay recording) WSHU National Public Radio, 2009
  • “Washing my Mother’s Hair in the Hospital” (essay) Dutiful Daughters, (anthology), 2010
  • “Girls of Summer” (essay) Press Pause Anthology, 2010
  • “Never bend down to kiss a dog” (poem) Poet Lore, Spring-Summer 2011
  • “Trouble” (poem) Poet Lore, Spring-Summer 2011
  • “Equinox” chapbook of poems Finishing Line Press, 2011
  • “Washing my mother’s hair in the hospital” (essay) This is Way We Say Goodbye (anthology), Feminist Press, 2011
  • “Cat Fight” (poem) Eclipse, 2012
  • “How I Got Over Not Having a Middle Name” (poem) Eclipse, 2012
  • “What We All Say” (poem) Alimentum, 2012
  • “Tapas” (poem) Alimentum, 2012
  • “Wrangler (poem) Alimentum, 2012
  • “The Accident,” (poem) Cradle Songs: Anthology of Poems on Motherhood, 2012
  • “Mother Dying in the Hospital” (essay) ARS Medica, Vol. 9. No. 1, 2012
  • “Dear Life” (poem) Hospital Drive, 2014
  • “Into Evening” (poem) Hospital Drive, 2014
  • “Moveable Feast” (poem) Hospital Drive, 2014
  • “Remedies for losing a cat in spring” (poem) Kansas City Voices 2014
  • Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, poem “Rorschach” spring 2021
  • “A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic,” “Early Days” Summer 2021
  • University Professors Press, Editor Elayne Clift
  • Pulse, poem “Outpatient Clinic” September 2022
  • Hole in the Head review, poems, “What it’s like to be depressed” and “Drought” 
  • November 2022 (online press)
  • Raven’s Perch “Two men, a summer evening,” “Into evening,” “The antidote to addiction,” “Garden of families” November 2022 (online press)