Courses/Seminars:

Fall 2012

Conference Presentations

Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers; Conference, Fall 2001.

Gulf Coast Conference for Creative Writing Teachers: “The Epidural”; Spring 2000.

20^th Annual Conference of The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association: “Horse Heavy” and “Period”; 1999

Publications:

Song of the Orange Moons. Austin: Blooming Tree Press, 2009. (in Press)

The Literary Grotesque and Motherhood: Mothers and Daughters in Southern Literature.  Germany: VDM Press, 2008.

“We Cry for Us.”  Glimmer Train Stories.  Issue 51.  Oregon: Glimmer Train Press, 2004.

Other short stories and poetry in the anthologies and journals Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Minuscule Fiction, The Blue Moon Review, Aries, and Suddenly IV; Prose, Poetry & Sudden Fiction, among others.

Scholarly Book:

The Literary Grotesque and Motherhood: Mothers and Daughters in Southern Literature.  Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Press, 2008.

Poetry:

“Hotel du Brésil.” Illya’s Honey.  Winter, 2000.  READ IT HERE!

“Grapevine,” “Horse Heavy,” “Period.” Sojourn 12. 1999.

Reviews:

Hoffman, Catherine A, and Andrew I Hoffman.  The Main Event.  New York:  Prentice Hall, 2003.

Gray, Acia.  The Souls of Your Feet: Tap Dance Guidebook for Rhythm Explorers.  In Review of Texas Books.  Volume XIV, 1999.

English, Sarah Jane.  Sharing is Unnatural & Other Amusing Notions.  In Review of Texas Books  Volume XIV, 1999.

Awards:

Peace Writing Honorable Mention Award for Boarders, a novel manuscript for young readers: Peace and Justice Studies Association and OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology: “To encourage writing against war and violence, about the causes, consequences, and solutions to violence and ward, and for nonviolence, active peacemaking and peacemakers, world peace, human rights, and social and economic justice in the context of peacemaking.” May 2006.

Finalist for Very Short Fiction Award: “Black Bug” Glimmer Train Stories, Spring 2004.

Finalist for Fiction Open: “Sins of an Orphan” Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2002.

Second Place National Winner for “We Cry For Us.” Glimmer Train Stories Fiction Open, July 2002