My short story, “An Inch Too Tight,” about a young 14th century mother who goes to see Julian of Norwich about a demon appears in the latest issue of Redivider. Also featured is a haunting, strange story about the aftermath of a death in Jersey City by Vinessa Anthony DiSousa, “Then Someone Moves the Ground,”…
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New Story in Arkansas Review
Excited to see the first of my short stories set in near-future dystopian Louisiana in the December issue of Arkansas Review! Although this is a print publication, the story is being featured on the website, so you can read it by scrolling down and clicking the “Featured Content” button. The issue also features a great…
New Poem in Strange Horizons
My poem, “The Mother Searches for Her Own Story,” appears in this week’s issue of Strange Horizons. This one is from the full-length poetry collection I’m working on, and I’m so honored to have it appear alongside a story by Rivqa Rafael and a poem by Ugonna-Ora Owoh. Check out the poetry podcast!
Interview with Maggie Smith
Last year, interviews and reviews editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Sarah Ann Winn, invited me to interview poet Maggie Smith for their March issue. A big fan of Maggie Smith’s work, I eagerly agreed. It was such a pleasure to reread her two most recent collections, Good Bones and The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and to have an…
Reinventing Ever After at C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference
I had such a wonderful weekend presenting at the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference reading with Stacey Balkun, Sally Rosen Kindred, and Donna Vorreyer on “Reinventing Ever After: Women Reclaim the Fairy Tale in Poetry”…
“Hildegard of Bingen: Daughter of Light” in Faerie Magazine
Last summer, editor-in-chief Carolyn Turgeon invited me to write an article on St. Hildegard of Bingen for the medieval-themed winter issue of Faerie Magazine. Since I’d traveled to Bingen in 2014 to research Hildegard for THE BOOK OF GOTHEL, I was excited about the assignment. St. Hildegard is a fascinating, complicated figure. Over the past four years,…
Back to Vermont Studio Center
I’m so grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, which funded the two-week fellowship and stipend I’ve received to Vermont Studio Center to work on my novel-in-progress, THE BOOK OF GOTHEL And of course, I’m grateful to my husband and daughter, who are always so supportive of me taking time for my work. I…
“Louisiana Disaster Recovery 3.0” in Gulf Coast
My poem, “Louisiana Disaster Recovery 3.0,” appears in the latest issue of Gulf Coast. I’m so grateful that it found a home in a journal so close to my hometown because it’s about the floods my family and friends suffered in the greater Baton Rouge area last fall. The poem was written for a multimedia dance/art/creative writing concert…