Happenings

The After Party, published in Eclectica
Night Swim, a short story in MiPOesias in the all story Fall 2008 issue.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 --my interview is featured on Susan Henderson's stupendous LitPark. Learn about my role as a fiction editor at Agni, my early days getting published, plus some talk about my novels.
Read my guest column and novel excerpt on DearReader.com. Created by Suzanne Beecher, this fabulous site has more than 350,000 members.
Click here to read an excerpt from my novel in The Huffington Post.

May 2009 - Saving the Fish Tank, a short story in Night Train

January/​February 2009 - The After Party, a short story in Eclectica.

October 2008 - Solo, a short story, The Wilderness Literary Review

September 2008 - Night Swim, a short story, MiPoesias.

June 2007 - short story Woman With Birds In Her Chest, published in Elixir Magazine.

May 2007 - Backspace Conference in NYC. Moderated two panels. One on debut novels and one on memoirs.

April 13, 2007 -- An excerpt of my novel posted on Huffington Post's Fearless Voices--Mother/​Daughters also linked to iVillage.

January 21, 2007 - Here Here! Brookline Authors Speak. Presented my book, Time To Make the Donuts. Sponsored by The Trustees and The Friends of the Public Library of Brookline.

January 7 - Boston Globe Magazine article on a Providence, RI loft.

2007 - Backstory links with Visual Thesaurus.

August 3, 2006 - Huffington Post blog. A fun post on two writers' book marketing strategies.

July 22, 2006 - Panelist and moderator at Backspace Writing Conference in NYC. Algonquin Hotel.

Spring 2006 - Boston Globe Magazine articles.

March 2006 -- Guest author, Ninth annual Brookline Library Foundation Winter Gala.

February 19, 2006 - Panelist. Topic: “Creating Paradise” a panel discussion moderated by Brookline painter Manika Srivastav, whose one-woman exhibition Creating Paradise is on view in the Brookline Arts Center gallery from February 1 to 29. Artist Clara Wainwright, documentary filmmaker Ann Carol Grossman, and author Jessica Keener will begin the discussion of the creative process and the roles that the artist’s vocation plays in their lives.

January 2006 - O, The Oprah Magazine. Article about DearReader.com, an online book club with 300,000 members.

Selected works, excerpts and previews

Fiction
Shoreline, a short story published in Northeast Corridor
Laura moves out of her house and into a summer cottage to reconsider the viability of her marriage.
Night Swim, a novel
16-year-old Sarah, a gifted singer from an upper middle class Jewish family, tells the story of her family following the tragic loss of her mother. Set in suburban Boston in the late 1960s.
Body Chemistry, a novel
College grad, Elizabeth Gold, learns she has contracted a fatal illness called Aplastic Anemia. The difficult news sends her on a search for a cure, but she quickly learns the options are high risk. In the process she faces ambiguities in family relationships, a failing romance, and an influx of caretakers, including an eccentric faith healer and an entrepreneurial apartment mate. A novel about the healing power of love.
Profiles
The Afterlife of Louis Brown, A Boston Globe Magazine cover story. June 2002
How the murder of a Boston teenager became a force for change.
Memoir
The Quiet Revolution, published in CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, annual report '02
A personal story about aplastic anemia.