Dinner With Doppelgangers – A True Story of Madness and Recovery, memoir published by Wordpool Press, April 11, 2015. (Available www.wordpoolpress.com, www.Amazon.com)
Adoptive Families Magazine
“My Rockin’ Ethiopian Sons,” personal essay, August 2005
“Family Traditions,” personal essay, June 2009
“Pizza, Pasta, and Dabo,” personal essay, December 2009
An Inkslinger’s Observance
“The Painting,” June 2020
Bloom Magazine
“A Family Without Borders,” personal essay, June/July 2013
Chicken Soup for the Adoptive Soul
“My Headbanging Ethiopian Sons,” personal essay, March 2008
Brain, Child Blog
“Thirteen Years – An Adoptive Mother and Her Baby Son,” personal essay, November 26, 2014
Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag
“Birth and Death in a Microcosm,” micro essay, July 2, 2014
Deltona Howl
“Out of Chaos Comes Art,” “In a Fog,” “The Night Nurse,” “Stranger’s Got a Gun,” and “Summertime and the Livin’ is Almost Easy,” poems, November 13, 2014
Digital Papercut Literary Journal
“Making The Cut,” short story, August 3, 2014
ELJ Publications, Wild Horses: The Women on Fire Series
“Scrabble Life,” a short story
Firestories: Further thoughts on Radically Rethinking Mental Illness – anthology
“The Zenith of my Madness,” personal essay, 2012
Georgetown Review
“When I’m ’84,” personal essay, April 2006
Guideposts Christmas
“Brothers in Our Home,” personal essay, December 2010
Indianapolis Star
“Lorrie Moore takes Wing,” book review, October 1998
In Other Words – An American Poetry Anthology
“A Correction,” poem, 1994
Mé Tis
“Jellyfish Kill,” personal essay, April 2015.
Muscadine Lines
“Enough,” personal essay, 1st quarter 2009
New Southerner
“The Caterpillar Cue,” personal essay, June/July 2006
NUVO
Terri Cheney book review for Manic, April 2008
Michael Pollan book review for In Defense of Food, February 2008
“Making Writers’ Dreams Reality,” feature, September 2004
“NAET,” feature, May 2004
“My Headbangin’ Ethiopian Sons,” personal essay, April 2003
“The Power of Herbal Medicine,” feature, November 2003
“Squirrels in my Kitchen,” feature, September 2003
“The Stigma of Mental Illness,” book review, March 2003
“Madness & Medicine,” feature, January 2003
“Big Cats,” cover story, August 2002
“Roadkill – Casualties of the Car Culture,” cover story, July 2002
ORION
“Roadkill Rod,” in “Sacred & Mundane” July/August 2004
Psychic Meatloaf
“Baby Sisters in the Bassinet,” “Group,” poems, issue #5 May 2012
The Ryder Magazine
“Sunshine, Bread, & Small Talk,” personal essay, July 2020
“Bleach,” personal essay, August 2019
“When You Thought They Weren’t Listening,” personal essay, November 2017
“Shopping Antiques, Vintage & Eclectic – Picking at the B-Town Flea, feature story, April 2017
“A Bug’s Life,” feature story, February 2017
“Last Minute Shopping,” personal essay, December 2014
“This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: Bloomington’s Deer Dilemma,” cover story, November 2014
“American Wasteland – From The Family Farm to the Back of the Fridge, Americans Throw Away Half of Their Food,” cover story/interview September 2014
38th Annual Fourth Street Festival Beckons” August 2014
The Barefoot Review
“Lithium,” “We Line Up,” poems, Summer Edition, June 2012
The Four – Cornered Universe
“Roadkill,” personal essay, March 2010
The Petigru Review
“Death of the Sea-Monkeys,” personal essay, September 2007
The Gyroscope Review
“Reach,” braided essay, Spring 2018
The Potomac Review
“Between Two Poles,” personal essay, issue 54, February 2014
The RavensPerch
“My Corner of the Universe,” personal essay, January 27, 2018
The Robert Frost Award 2020
“The Hawk,” poem, runner-up
The Voices Project
“Second-hand Smoke,” poem, February 4, 2020
“Seedlings: poem, January 14, 2020
“Missing Pieces,” poem, May 15, 2019
“Here Today, Gone Tomorrow,” poem, November 19, 2018
“Pop,” poem, October 17, 2017
“Watching,” prose-poem, November 2, 2016
“What is the Lesson?” prose-poem, September 2015
“A Bug’s Life,” micro essay, October 29, 2014
(T)HERE: Writings on Returnings – anthology
“Other Lives,” personal essay, 2014
VerbSap
“The Snake,” personal essay, Winter 2008-2009
“Mr. Tufford,” personal essay, June 2008
“When I’m ’84,” personal essay, February 2005
“Laughing Out Loud,” personal essay, October 2005
Veils, Halos, & Shackles – International Poetry on the Abuse and Oppression of Women
“Morning Pills,” poem
Vine Leaves Literary Journal
“My Favorite Blue Jeans,” “PICU,” poems, Issue #4, October 2012
Workzine
“Sunshine in here Soul,” personal essay, August 19, 2019
“Many Mansions,” personal essay, November 19, 2018
“Taking Care of Business,” personal essay, April 2, 2018
“The Order,” short story, August 28, 2017
Work Forthcoming:
Animal Magnetism – A poetry chapbook, forthcoming Finishing Line Press
