Nonfiction

Essays
"Bodysurfing", Trekker Magazine, 2006   Read

"Innocent Misrecollection", Double Take/Points of Entry, Spring 2006   Read

"Mom's Machete", North Central Review, Winter/Spring 2005   Read

"A Pen by the Phone", First published in The Redwood Coast Review, Fall 2004; reprinted in Utne, March-April 2005; reprinted in Prentice Hall Reader, 8th edition  Read

"Voices of Authorities", Sonora Review, 2005   Read


Memoir
"Always, Always There", Published in the anthology The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives: 27 Women Writers on Love, Infidelity, Sex Roles, Race, Kids, and More (Inner Ocean) 2006  Read

"The Face on the Table", Ascent, Winter 2004   Read

"Fighting the Devil by Killing the Angel", First published in Harvard Review 26, Spring 2004; reprinted as "Betrayed by the Angel" in Utne, November-December 2004; honored as a "notable essay" in The Best American Essays 2005 (Houghton Mifflin); reprinted in Women's Voices, Feminist Visions, 3rd edition, 2006, and 4th edition, 2009 (McGraw Hill)  Read

"Fissure", Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2004, and The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, 2008  Read

"Guitars", The Massachusetts Review, Summer 2001   Read

"In the Abyss", Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss, 1:309-315, 1996   Read

"Recollecting", Creative Nonfiction, Number 12, 1999  Read

"Space Invader", Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, 2006   Read

"Statements", Karamu, Spring 2005   Read

"Thief", Small Spiral Notebook, Winter 2005   Read