Selected Non-Fiction and Essays

Flirting with Justice in the Los Angeles Times

Moonshot, Progress Comes Slowly, and You've Come a Long Way, Barbie, all read on the Perspectives series of KQED, the NPR affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area

O'Connor's ascension to Supreme Court was a milestone for today's women in the San Jose Mercury News

My Summer with Scout Finch and Women's History Month Hero - Elizabeth Cady Stanton in AOL News.

Beg, Borrow and Steal in Writer's Digest

What the Medal Means, and The Turnaround in Runner's World

The Forever of Remembering from Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write about the Intense Relationships Between Mothers and Nannies

Tsunami Faith from the Virginia Quarterly Review

Selected Short Fiction

Perfect Circles from Shenandoah

Imagining Isabelle from Other Voices

The Blistering Cure from South Carolina Review

Funny What You Forget from South Dakota Review

Matthew Nine from Louisiana Literature

Book Reviews

Iron(ing) Man from the Ms. Blog

Inside This Place Not Of It from the Huffington Post blog

I also host the blog 1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started
and blog occasionally at the Huffington Post