Bio

When I was nine years old, I handwrote a 36-page ripoff of Nick Sullivan's The Seventh Princess. It would be untrue to say that I have been writing ever since, but it was then that I realized it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Over time I got the impression that writers did not make any money unless a series of lightning-strikes happened upon the same spot time after time, so rather than starve, I turned to other things. This year I realized it's actually what I want, and it's what I've been doing in the background of my life all along, so I finally returned it to the foreground.

Sadly, I still have a day job.

This is me knitting.

I graduated from Mount Holyoke College, and I live in Maryland. I work in contracting and I like it just fine. But it's not fiction.
 

I have held a number of jobs, including pumping gas, delivering pizza, and packaging hummus. I've lived all up and down the East Coast, because my father was in the Navy, and we moved a lot when I was a child. 

I've lived in several of these states, but not all of them.

My mother is a professor of translation and literature in Florida. My father is a Navy Captain working overseas. They divorced when I was a teenager.
 

I write about many different things. My work tends to explore women's issues and is sometimes quite disturbing. I greatly enjoy working in magical realism, but I've written gritty fiction and erotica. The only novel-length work I have completed is Falling Leaves, a V.C. Andrews-style romantic thriller that is silly and cheesy and fun. I tend to be more successful at "serious" writing in the short story form, but I have a few novel-length ideas for more serious work. One day I will write them all.
 

Right now I'm trying to get my fiction out into the world, and I'm trying to make up my mind about what I'm going to work on next. My Work-in-Progress blog has lots more information about that.

Publishmenti Priori

Freelancing: In 2005 I freelanced for the Connecticut Reminder, a community paper covering local issues. Not too sophisticated, but it was a byline. I also freelanced for the Bowie Blade-News, which is more or less the same way, from October 2006 until April 2007. 
Nonfiction: My essay "An Impassioned Plea Against My Fair Lady" was accepted for publication in Molly, a pop culture zine out of Michigan, and is scheduled to appear in fall '07. An essay on abortion, "Banning Happiness in South Dakota", appeared on 10/18/06 in Gelf magazine, and a follow-up appeared in November '06 after the elections. (The Gelf guys are too cool, by the way. Visit them.) A humor piece, To the Esteemed Editors of [redacted] was published in Defenestration, 3/20/07. "Breaking the Audience's Bond" appeared in Acid Logic, 4/07. Boy in Cart appeared in issue #325 of Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). "Let Sleeping Morals Lie" appeared in Unlikely 2.0 in May 2007.  
Fiction: My first work of fiction was accepted for publication in January '07; The Editor appeared in Dark Reveries in February 2007. A drabble piece called Traffic appeared in issue #316 of Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). The Bargain appeared in Salome Magazine on 3/19/07.  Fucked is scheduled to appear in Front&Centre, Fall '07. Tragedy appeared in 4/07 in Peccary Magazine under the title Richard's Tragic End.  

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