Publications

BOOKS
- - Soul to Soul: Tiny Stories of Hope and Resilience, a collection of one hundred 100-word stories (Huntsville Independent Press) forthcoming in fall, 2023.
  - The Art of Touch: A Collection of Prose and Poetry From the Pandemic and Beyond, eds. Joan Schweighardt and Faye Rapoport DesPres (University of Georgia Press) forthcoming in fall 2023.
  - Frazier: The Very Special Cat, Book 3, Stray Cat Stories Series (Writer’s Coffee Bar Press) Oct. 29, 2021.
  - Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat , Book 2, Stray Cat Stories Series (Writer’s Coffee Bar Press) Feb. 20, 2020.
  - Little White: The Feral Cat Who Found a Home, Book 1, Stray Cat Stories Series (Writer’s Coffee Bar Press) Oct. 2018.
  - Message From a Blue Jay, Memoir-In-Essays (Buddhapuss Ink) May 2014.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

- - “Borderline,” Essay anthologized in Madonna Fans Do It Better: A FANthology (Dec. 20, 2021, Tookman Productions)
  - “Swallow,” pioneertown, Read Here>>
  - “Still Life with PTSD and Geese,” Bending Genres, Read Here>>
  - “Lifeguard,” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Read Here >>
  - “Winter,” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Read Here >>
  - “Still Life with Writing,” BOXY Magazine, Read Here>>
  - “Walden Revisited,” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Read Here >>
  - “Survivors,” TOSKA Magazine, Read Here >>
  - “Morning and Night,” Sugar Mule’s Women Writing Nature Issue, Read Here >>
  - “Up to Nothing,” Hamilton Stone Review, Read Here >>
  - “No One Watches the Old Lady Dance,” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Read Here >>
  - “Waiting for the Hurricane,” Platte Valley Review, Read Here >>
  - “Tulips,” Superstition Review, Read Here >>
  - “The Deer,” Eleven Eleven, Read Here >>
  - “Into the Vacuum,” Prime Number Magazine, Read Here >>
  - “The Bird’s Nest,” Damselfly Press, Read Here >>
  - “Forty-Six,” Ascent, Read Here >>
  - “An Interview with Michael Steinberg, author, essayist and founding editor of Fourth Genre,” Writer’s Chronicle
  - “The Diversion,” Writer Advice
  - “Finding a Path Through Grief,” InterfaithFamily.com
  - “The Balance Beam,” International Gymnast Magazine
  - “Our First Seder,” InterfaithFamily.com
  - “When Life Gets in the Way of Planning a Wedding,” InterfaithFamily.com
  - “This Land is My Land, but Maybe Not Your Land,” InterfaithFamily.com

FICTION AND POETRY

- - “The Place” and “Generations,” fiction, Spring/Summer 2022 issue of The Centifictionist: International Journal of Microfiction in 100 Words or Less
  - “Party Clown,” fiction, The Drabble, March 2022. Read Here>>
  - “By the Sea,” fiction, Spring 2022, Issue V of Dribble Drabble. Read Here>>
  - “The Giver,” fiction, Feb. 2022, Read in A Story in 100 Words
  - “First Light,” poem, Feb. 2022, Read in 433
  - “Flight of Fancy,” poem, The Field Guide Magazine, March 2022
  - “The Last Gift,” fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Dec. 2021, Read Here>>
  - “Dark Night,” fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Dec. 2021, Read Here>>
  - “Darkness,” fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Dec. 2021, Read Here>>
  - “The Varmint,” a short story published in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, in the November, 2017 issue, Read Here>>
  - “Capture the Moon,” a short story published in Red Earth Review in the July, 2016 issue, Read Here>>
  - “Who Let the Cats Out,” a short story published in Mystery Times Ten 2013 and anthologized in Nine Daily Lives, an October 2015 anthology from Prairie Rose Publications/Fire Star Press
  - “The Old Man,” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Read Here >>
  - “Jude,” short fiction, The Whistling Fire
  - “The Last Time My Father Screamed,” poem, Second Generation Journal
  - “You are so self centered you think only of yourself,” poem, In the Arts
  - “Ode to My Car,” poem, Void Magazine, Read Here >>
  - “B.B.,” short story, Void Magazine

GUEST BLOG POSTS

- - “The Lost Words,” Superstition Review blog
  - “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of” (reflection on the publishing process) Budhapuss Ink Blog, Read Here>>
  - “A Poem That Changed My Life” JarrettLerner.com,
  - “When Writing Your First Draft, Take all the Detours” Buddhapuss Ink Blog, Read Here>>
  - “Combining Individual Essays into a Cohesive Collection,” Lisa Romeo Writes, Read Here>>
  - “Submitting to Literary Journals,” Chloe Yelena Miller, Read Here>>
  - “Fireworks,” Superstition Review Blog
  - “What Does This Have to Do With Writing? (After the Boston Marathon Bombing),” Superstition Review Blog

JOURNALISM

- - The New York Times
  - The Intermountain Jewish News
  - Trail and Timberline
  - Animal Life
  - The Jewish Chronicle
  - The Rockland Review
  - The Chatham Courier

AWARDS

- - “By the Sea,” originally published in The Dribble Drabble Review, was chosen for inclusion in the Best Microfiction 2023 Anthology
  - Connotation Press An Online Artifact chose “Lifeguard” as one of the best creative nonfiction pieces of the year and re-published it in the August, 2017 issue.
  - “Fall (Barn Rising)” was a top 10 finalist in the Tiferet 2016 Writing Contest
  - Connotation Press chose the personal essay “Winter” as one of the best pieces of the year from Meg Tuite’s “Crazy Rabbit Review” column and included it in their August 2015 Retrospective Issue
  - Connotation Press chose “The Old Man” as one of the best fiction pieces of the year and included it in their August 2014 Retrospective Issue
  - A panel of independent readers and publishing professionals chose “Who Let the Cats Out” as the third place winner out of 200 entries in the 2013 Mystery Times Ten short story contest sponsored by independent press Buddhapuss Ink.
  - Connotation Press chose “No One Watches the Old Lady Dance” as one of the best creative nonfiction pieces of the year and included it in their August 2012 Retrospective Issue
  - Prime Number Magazine chose “Into the Vacuum” as an Editor’s Choice pick for the journal’s 2012 annual print edition.
  - Writer Advice, Honorable Mention, Fourth Annual Flash Prose Contest
  - Colorado Press Association: Third Place, Weeklies, Sports Column Writing
  - Colorado Press Association: First Place, Weeklies, Special Sections