I have been awarded the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and the Red Hen Press Short Story Award. My work is situated firmly in the medical humanities. My most recent book, _Take Daily As Needed_, treats parenting while chronically ill with the desperado humor the subject deserves (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). My previous novel, _The Baby Lottery_, deals with the repercussions of infertility in a female friend group (a Book Sense Pick in 2007). My story collection, _The Sperm Donor’s Daughter_, takes a look at assisted reproduction and received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2000. My stories and articles have been published in _Poets & Writers Magazine, the Bellevue Literary Review, Medical Literary Messenger, The Los Angeles Review, Glimmer Train, The Seattle Review, Zyzzyva_, and others. I am a professor of English at Western Washington University and a faculty member of The Red Badge Project, a non-profit organization serving active duty soldiers and veterans in Washington through the use of storytelling techniques.

Take Daily As Needed (University of New Mexico Press, 2019)

The Baby Lottery, a 2007 Book Sense Pick (The Permanent Press: New York).

The Sperm Donor's Daughter, Special Mention for The Pushcart Prize 2000 (The Permanent Press: New York).

The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, co-edited with Ishmael Reed and Shawn Wong (W.W. Norton:
New York, 1992).

Yes. AWP & the Authors' Guild.

Associated Writing Programs
The Red Badge Project