Works

Short Leash: A Memoir of Dogwalking and Deliverance
A walk in the park becomes a journey out of the wilderness for a woman and a dog leashed by fear.

Book Reviews

Reviews of books read and recommended.

SIGHT UNSEEN
Winner of 2004 Christine White Award and 2005 Ames Award for Essay and chosen for "Periodically Speaking,” a reading series presented by The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [CLMP] and The New York Public Library to showcase emerging writers as well as the diversity of America's literary magazines and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library.

Annapolis Stories
Selected essays from (Annapolis) Capital Gazette column

Selected Works

Memoir
Forthcoming from Michigan State University Press in 2013.
Personal essay of growing up with a complicated father. Scroll page 71 after clicking link
Reviews of memoir and nonfiction
Essays
Selected essays from (Annapolis) Capital Gazette column

Quick Links

Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour
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Creative Nonfiction
The voice of the genre
She Writes
online community for women writers
Narrative
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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Authors Guild
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