I was a Bellwether finalist, had publishing creds in the Baltimore Sun, Tikkun, and other places in 2002-2004, and have been writing a lot since, but it’s been for the organization I work for, and for academic and other much lower profile publications.  However, when I’m asked to submit author or speaker bios, I trundle out the old high profile credits; I’ve just stopped adding the dates that I received them.

I sometimes feel that my demographic is basically Mennonites who don’t get freaked out by the F word and secular people who don’t get freaked out by religious content.  It’s an enthusiastic readership, but small.                                                                               

My 2^nd novel, was better than my first, according to everyone who read both, but ended up too short to submit for the Bellwether Prize this year—I was pretty depressed by that.