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"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
“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
“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
WXPNFinalist, 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
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