"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 “Identifying Marks,” Bellingham Review (listen!) "Restoration," Philadelphia Stories "Bad Math," Perigee “La Playa,” The Raven Chronicles "Las Golondrinas," Best of Carve Magazine Anthology “Belgian Country Inn,” Stringtown “My New Grandmother,” Pearl Magazine “Las Golondrinas,” Carve Magazine “Home On the Range,” Prism International “The Old Rugged Cross,” Women’s Words   ESSAYS "Our First Reaction," Hippocampus "The Bleeding Eye," Serving House: A Journal of Literary Arts “Give Me a W!” Writers On the Job (webdelsol) “Thanksgiving,” The MacGuffin “Meditations on Form,” Philosophy and Everyday Life (anthology)   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