Published Works, Awards and Interviews

Nonfiction

Segments written and produced for Radio Health Journal.

Segments written and produced for Viewpoints.

The Foot at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Ekphrastic Review, December 9, 2024.

Lessons From the Storm,” Lit Mag News, an essay about living through Helene in Asheville, North Carolina, October 17, 2024.

I Never Gave Up and Now Have Joy,” CPTSD Foundation blog, October 2024.

I Hated Myself for What I Did –Then Realized I was a Victim,Newsweek.com, August 1, 2024.

Readers Write: “Shaving,” The Sun magazine, July 2024.

Cosmic Farm,” (excerpt from A Minor, Unaccompanied, A Teen Musician’s Odyssey) Midwest Review, Fall 2023 print and online issues.

“Moving Day,” (excerpt from A Minor, Unaccompanied: Memoir of a Teen Musician’s Odyssey), Grande Dame Literary, April 2023.

Spilled Beans,” (excerpt from A Minor, Unaccompanied: Memoir of a Teen Musician’s Odyssey) [Trigger warning: sexually explicit material. ] Quibble Lit, Issue 5.

Learning Not to Interfere as an Act of Love,” personal essay, first published in, Metonym Literary Journal, Vol. XI, Spring 2023 print issue.

Take Me, Mommy,” (excerpt from A Minor, Unaccompanied: Memoir of a Teen Musician’s Odyssey) 45th Parallel, Issue No. 7, Summer 2022.

Fiction

Frances Awakes,” The Heartland Review, Fall 2023 print issue.

“Milk,” Meaningful Conflicts: The Art of Friction, The Off-Campus Writers Workshop anthology, available from Amazon.

The Green Monster,” Bright Flash Literary Review, September 5, 2024.

Awards and Interviews:

National Runaway Safeline Youth HOPE Month blog interview, November 2024.

Finalist in 2023 Doris Betts Fiction Prize for “Journey to the Center.”

Winner of the 2022 Coming-of-Age Memoir Magazine Prize for Books for A Minor, Unaccompanied: A Teen Musician’s Odyssey (former title Nasty Girl) https://memoirmag.com/nonfiction/2022-memoir-prize-for-books-winners/