Literary & Essay

My creative work has won awards and been published in newspapers, magazines and literary journals; my memoir, California Calling: A self-Interrogation, was published in 2018 by Hawthorne Books. My writing has been anthologized, including most recently in the 2015 Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life. Here is a sampling of some of my publications available digitally.
The Nervous Breakdown, self interview
75 years after Auschwitz, a Seattle Jew wonders: Are we traveling backward?
Writer’s Digest, essay: “What to do when you’re a memoirist and memory fails”
Powell’s Book Blog, essay: “Border Crossings”
Proximity magazine, Issue 17 “Reuse,” book excerpt
Hypertext Magazine, book excerpt
Dear daughter: This dress code violates you
I didn’t have sex for a year and I’m still married
My Husband was laid off. Here’s what happened to our parenting.
Why There Are Words Sausalito reading (video)
Public reading, “Lucky 13,” November 2015, Ballard Writers Collective.
In place of a third child, a puppy
Back-to-school shopping: Step away from the glue gun, lady
Stand in the Middle, a writer’s response to Zoe Juniper and American Shape Note Singing
