Selection of Fiction & Poetry

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“A Eulogy for Rincon” The Word’s Faire, April 2025

“What Chekhov Meant to Tell Me,” fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, March 2025

“She Read it Wrong,” Washington Square Review, Summer 2024, interviewed for podcast and read at annual livecast.

“Where Music Comes From,” WildSound Writing, May 2024

“Sleep, You Bastard,” poem, Wingless Dreamer anthology, "Into the Gloom." 2024

“Three Belts,” fiction, Honorable Mention in the Storm Cellar 2022 Force Majeure Flash Contest, and published in Storm Cellar Issue 11.1

"Pause From Your Travels," poem, Shakespeare Tribute issue of Wingless Dreamer

"Nantahala," poem, semi-finalist for the the 2021 James Applewhite Poetry Prize

"If the Sky and this Tree," poem, A Tribute to Lord Byron issue of Wingless Dreamer

"The Rummikub Game," short story, in the coffee table book, The Great Pause: Rearview 2020

“An Obvious Person,” poem, Moonstone Arts Center, Facebook live reading and publication

“Slacks," poem, Sad Girls Club journal

“The Living Room Furniture,” poem, Qwerty Magazine

“A New Outfit for Las Fallas,” poem, Glass Mountain

“Backpacking” and “Fire on the Moon,” poems, Inlandia- A Literary Journey

"Sa Cabrera" and "Formentor" poems, Forbidden Peak Press

“The Flamenco Rehearsal,” poem, Iris Literary Journal

“On Saturdays,” poem, second place winner of the 2020 Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest on the themes of Community and Activism, published in “Sunbeams.”

“Looking for Erica in the Rare Books Room,” memoir, winner of Rancho La Puerta Writing Contest, published and recorded video performance

"Review of Margaret Atwood’s New Release: The Dream Tree,” fiction, Tiny Seed Literary Journal

“The Mona Lisa of Costco,” Every Day Fiction

“Not Barcelona,” micro fiction Rougarou

“The Cancellations,” micro fiction, Ruminate Magazine

“The Cooking Lesson,” poem, The Halcyone Review

“Lucy,” poem, The Decadent Review

“Grandpa Just Left for the Track,” short story, performed at the LitCamp Basement Series

“Portal, Portixol,” poem and photography, *82 Review

“Dolly-girl,” memoir, The Passed Note - Our Shelf Life

“Wilma,” flash fiction, STORGY Magazine 

“Gigi and the Great Gator,” short story, Verbal - Digital Reading Rooms

“Home,” poem, Kallisto Gaia Press, The Ocotillo Review

“Awakening the Werewolf on My Chesterfield,” poem, 42 Stories Anthology

“Make Way for Me,” poem, The Main Street Rag

“Squeaker,” short story, The High Desert Journal

“Why I Need You to Watch the Sunset,” poem, Talking Writing

“Tape Measure,” and “Training,” poems, Carcosa Magazine

“The Grand-daughter,” poem, “Eileen y Guadelupe,” photograph, in “The Very Edge,” a book by Flying Ketchup Press

“Precious Metals,” story and dialogue, LitQuake Reading and Ripples in Space Podcast 

“Sweet Darling,” poem, Mothers Always Write

“Superhero Supplies,” travel fiction, Lit Up-The Land of Little Tales

“I Promised My Wife I Wouldn’t,” short story, Coffin Bell Journal

“Haiku Review of Ready Player One,” poem, Flock

“Why We Left Tokyo,” humorous postcard, Wanderlust Journal

“Arusha, Tanzania,” poetry series, Quiet Lightning Journal and Poetry in the Parks

“Rabbit Cupcakes,” story, LitCamp acceptance piece

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Selection of Creative Non-Fiction

 

“A Flag on the Play,” short memoir, Afterimages, Thirty West Publishing, January 2024.

“My Bad,” short memoir, Page Street Reading Series, March 2023

“What We Read in 2022,” short memoir, The Masters Review

“The Earth as Escape Room: Choose Your Own Climate Change Adventure in The Ministry for the Future,” essay and book review, Atticus Review

“The Wages of Sin,” short memoir, Page Street Reading Series, September 2022

"The Chinese Lessons," Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's Liberal Arts Circus Feb. 2021

“Ordering the Flour,” memoir, performed live for Women’s National Book Association

“Opening Remarks,” essay and speech, Lemon Theory

“Escape from Berlin,” a travel piece, Talking Writing First Person Journalism

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, “Phobias of the Modern Teen,” humorous commentary 

Facebook, page creation, post writing, and publicity for a local celebrity composer 

Author,101 Questions to Ask Before You Apply to K-12 Schools: How to Choose the Right School for Your Child, 101 Questions to Ask Before You Apply to Pre-schools: How to Choose the Right School for Your Child

Culture Finder, San Francisco Columnist: Wrote San Francisco arts critiques for the largest online arts listings organization covering theater, dance, music, opera, and classical music.

Digital Be-in, a pioneering live blog from a concert from the early days of the Internet, 

Advocates for Chinese Education (ACE), a blog for a newsletter on Chinese Education

Barnes & Noble, National Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner, Essay "How Reading Changed My Life."

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