"Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté." —Margaret Atwood  SHORT STORIES "MarDel's Diner," Paradigm "Egg Heaven," Connotation Press "Bad Math," Perigee "Restoration," Philadelphia Stories “La Playa,” The Raven Chronicles “Belgian Country Inn,” Stringtown “Las Golondrinas,” Best of Carve Magazine Anthology “Women, Bears and Other Dangerous Things,” Best of Carve Magazine Anthology “My New Grandmother,” Pearl Magazine “Las Golondrinas,” Carve Magazine “Women, Bears and Other Dangerous Things,” Carve Magazine “Home On the Range,” Prism International “The Old Rugged Cross,” Women’s Words “Identifying Marks,” Bellingham Review (audio)   ESSAYS “Meditations on Form, or How Should I Tell You What I Need You to Know,” Philosophy and Everyday Life (anthology, Seven Bridges Press) “Give Me a W!” Writers On the Job (webdelsol) “Thanksgiving,” The MacGuffin AWARDS / HONORS Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee (for memoir) Finalist, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia) "Writing Aloud" performance of two stories I performed one of my stories on WXPN Finalist, BkMk Press Chandra Book Prize Presidential Fellowship in Creative Writing, FDU Resident: Cottages at Hedgebrook Raymond Carver Short Story Award Two nominations for Pushcart Prizes Carve Magazine Fiction Award Finalist, Glimmer Train Contest for New Writers Jaquith Award for Best Essay, CSULB EDUCATION MFA, Creative Writing, Fairleigh Dickinson University MA, English, Western Washington University BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University-Long Beach PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Managing Editor/Communications Manager, Bryn Mawr College Online Instructor, Rasmussen College Communications Consultant, ThreeSixty Productions, Bellingham, Washington Publications Services Supervisor, Western Washington University Freelance Writer/Editor/Designer, Robin Graphics Senior Editor, St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach Communications Manager, AIDS Project Los Angeles   rparks@brynmawr.edu