Stories & Essays

"Last Days of the Matriarch"
New England Review
Volume 43.4 (2022)
"In The Conditional Mood"
The Woven Tale Press
Volume IX, Number 7 (Fall 2021)
"No One But Us"
The New England Review
Volume 38, Number 3 (2017)
"Music"
The Cortland Review
Issue 74 (2017)
"Arrogance"
The New England Review
Volume 34, Number 2 (Fall 2013)
"Mischief"
The Common (Fall 2013)
"Saturdays at the Philharmonic"
Four Way Review
Issue 2 (Winter 2013)
"The Tertium Quid"
The New England Review
Volume 32, Number 4
"The Children Creature"
Seattle Review
Volume 2, Numbers 2 & 3
"Mocked and Invaded"
The New England Review
Volume 31, Number 1
"Leaving the Meadows"
Northwest Review
Volume 47, Number 3
"Salt"
Ploughshares
Winter 2008-2009
"The Yes Column"
Gargoyle
Number 51
"Lessons in Another Language"
Ploughshares
Spring 1999
"The Ocean"
Kansas Quarterly
Volume 11, Number 3
"A Length of Wire"
Ploughshares, Vol 5, No 3
Fall 1979
"The Provider"
Ploughshares, Vol 2, No 2
Fall 1974
"Alone at Night in the Kitchen"
Certain Age
September 2024
"The Savvy Reader"
The Muffin
June 2024
"The Other Place"
Cerise Press
Spring 2013
"In the Garden: Revealing a Character at a Moment of Change"
From A Kite In the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft
Andrea Barrett and Peter Turchi (Eds.)
Trinity University Press, 2011
"Dear Laurie": How to use the uncertainty that accompanies getting started
From Letters to a Fiction Writer
Frederick Busch (Ed.)
W.W. Norton, 1990
"Contributors in Conversation" (with Helen Hooper)
The Common podcast
2014
"Take Four" (Interview)
Four Way Review
November 2013
"The Inner and Outer World"
Rain Taxi, Vol 15, No 1
Spring 2010

Page & Story

In this monthly newsletter for writers and readers I'll focus on a novel or short story I love and show how the elements of story craft make it a compelling read.

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