Published writing
Do not take it on faith. Go and read it.
If you are deciding whether to hand your family’s history to a stranger, the writing is the only evidence that counts.
The Missouri Review
“When Lindy Saved My Life”
Selected for the BLAST anthology and named among the top ten in the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. The closest thing online to what a family history from me reads like.
Read it →Christmas piece
“The Fruitcake That Saw Jesus”
Monhegan Island, Maine, Christmas Eve 1985. Seventeen people at one table, a grandmother’s fruitcake, and a thirteen-year-old’s account of who turned up. Comic, and not remotely reverent — consider yourself warned.
Ask me for it →Also published in
- The New York Times
- The Globe and Mail
- The Missouri Review
- Intima · Columbia
- Folklife in BC
- Chicken Soup for the Soul
- STAT News
- Diabetes Care
- Attention · CHADD
Some pieces are in publisher archives or are not freely accessible online. If you want a specific piece, write to me and I will point you to the available source.
Where to start
Send me 250 words about one person.
No fee, no obligation. I will shape what you send into a finished passage, return it, and tell you honestly what your material could become. If the answer is that you do not need me, I will say that too.