Publications & Appearances

APPEARANCES AS STORY TELLER

“A Father’s Oldsmobile,” ArtBlitz, Valparaiso, Indiana, September 2023.

“The Music Never Stops,” Goodman Theater, Lobby Performances, spring 2023.

“The Music Never Stops,” All-City GeNarrations Performance, Goodman Theater (June, 2017)

“Aunt Lucile,” Goodman Theater, GeNarrations, Chicago (April, 2017)

“Wishes for Daughters,” Filet of Solo, Heartland Studio, Rogers Park, IL (February, 2017)

STORY PUBLICATIONS

Undeniably Indiana, IU Press for the bicentennial, 2016.

“The Bookstore,” Kudzu House Quarterly, Summer Solstice: 21 June 2015

“South Manitou Island:The Return,” Great Lakes Review, December 2014

“The Cool Girls,” Boomer Cafe, September 2014

“Traveling Companions,” Still Crazy, (July 2014)

“Harvest Time,” Feathered Flounder (July 2014) and in the anthology Midnight Oil (2014)

“Is that Your Sister?” Passager (2013) and in Midnight Oil (2014)

“Madeline’s Laps,” Touch: The Journal of Healing (January 2012)

“Mary’s Valuables,” Uncharted Territory (April 2013)

“An Outing for Betty,” Literary Mama (2009)–This story became the first chapter of the novel An Escape from Assisted Living, available in February 2014. Literary Mama named the story within its ten-best for the year.