Selected Writing

Nonfiction:

What Family Taught Me   (fall 2011, Santa Monica Review)

Trousseau   *runner-up in a Glimmer Train national contest (March 2015, BioStories online and print anthology)

Neptune Neptune Omega  (February 2018, Months To Years; March 2020, Accolades) 

Flood (March 2019, Months to Years)

The Graduation ( May 2019, Beach Reads )

What They Carry , essays from interviews of Laguna's homeless (fall 2009)  

Poetry:

Run   (2005, Squaw Valley Poetry Anthology) 

Love Ballad   (2014, Squaw Valley Review)

Kaffee Klatch   (March/April 2015, Unbroken Journal) 

That Evening (2015, Emotional Map of Los Angeles, an anthology)  

You Okay? (November 2024, Bright Flash Literary Review)

Fiction: 

Heard in Room 303  (April 2015, Orange Coast Review)

Demon (2020, Writing in Place, stories from the pandemic)

A Laguna Christmas 2025 (November 28, 2025, Laguna Beach Independent)

My great grandmother—my mother’s mother’s mother—

was left as an infant on a priest’s doorstep in a farming village north of Venice, Italy. She, the secret love child of a Venetian woman of aristocratic standing. (Or so it is told.) When I was a young girl, my nonna assured me that this woman-line meant—beyond any doubt—that I was una principessa.

As an Italian saying goes: "Se non è vero, è ben trovato." Roughly: Even if it's not true, it makes a great story. . . .