Writing


“We Are Built to Forget” The Paris Review Daily, November 16, 2020

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“The Simplest Question” Kenyon Review, Vol. XXX, No. 3
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 “Shunned” Creative Nonfiction, No. 20
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“Waiting” Prairie Schooner, Vol. 80, No. 4
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“Drawing the Line” Five Points, Vol. 9, No. 3
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“Without a Map” Creative Nonfiction, No. 28
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“Killing Chickens” Creative Nonfiction, No. 18
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“A River of Light” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, Vol. 8, No 3
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“Outport Shadows” Prairie Schooner, Vol. 80, Issue 1
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“Crossroads” The Southern Review, Autumn 2007
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“I Gave Him Up at Sixteen” The New York Times, March 6, 2005
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Poems

 

“Subtraction” Spoon River Poetry Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 1
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“My Father” Gettysburg Review, Vol. 26, No. 2
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Anthologies

 

Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption (Broadway Books, 2019)

Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know about Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 2008)

 

Modern Love: The Best of the NY Times “Modern Love” Column (Three Rivers Press, 2007)

 

The Essay Connection (Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 2007)

 

Kiss Tomorrow Hello: True Stories from the Midlife Underground (Doubleday, 2006)

 

In Fact: Best of Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 2004, 2005)

 

Pushcart Prize XXIX (Pushcart Press, 2004)