“To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.”    —Mary Oliver

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SELECTED FICTION, ESSAYS, AND POETRY

(As of September, 2023)

  • "When We Sleep”, North Carolina Bards Anthology, Gems Press, August 2023

  • “That’s It!,” Mad Women in the Attic, December, 2022 Featured Writer, MadInTheAttic.com

  • “The Nice Client,” Herstory 25th Anniversary Compendium, pending publication

  • ”House,” North Carolina Bards Anthology, Gems Press, October 2022

  • “Potlikkur: a Monologue,” Salvation South, July 2022, SalvationSouth.com/potlikker-a-monologue

  • “Anxiety,” “Bugs,” “Code,” “Portrait of Bartholomew,” “The Year of the Iron Snake,” Barking Sycamores, Year Two, 2017

  • “Coconut Heads,” Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South, 2017

  • “Stephanie Swepson-Twitty: Visionary with Patience,” (interview), WNC Woman, July 2016

  • “Crazy Terri and the Priest,” The Well Versed Reader, 2016

  • “When Asylums Are the Only Hammer, Everybody Looks Like a Nail,” Blog, Mad in America, March 11, 2016, MadInAmerica.com/2015/03/asylums-seem-hammer

  • “Miss America,” WNC Woman, June 2016

  • “Being White in Atlanta, GA during Desegregation,” What Does It Mean to Be White in America: Breaking the White Code of Silence, a Collection of Personal Narratives, May 2016

  • “Crazy Jane’s Last Day,” and “Four Beats of My Heart: A Ballad,” Monterey Poetry Review, March 2015

  • “Eugenics and the 2014 Murphy Bill,” Blog, Mad in America, March 26, 2015, MadInAmerica.com/2015/03/asylums-seem-hammer

  • “Marcia Calling” Nuts House: Insanity Edition, Vol. I,  2015

  • “First Friend: a Memoir,” WNC Woman, February 2015

  • “Theater and Art Lead to Ministry” (interview), “Staying with the Person in the Ditch” (interview), WNC Woman, 2015

  • “Mama’s Vines,” WNC Woman; September 2014

  • “Looking for the Lost,” The Perch, Journal of the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, May 2013

  • Co-Editor with Sally Clay and Patrick Corrigan, On Our Own Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005)

  • Poetic Justice Columns for Dendron and Mind Freedom Journal quarterly, 1998-2012

  • “Chocolate Dreams,” Quarry West 35 , UCSC, November 1999

  • “He’s a Boy not Counted in the Census,” “Her Expertise is Tracing Grave Histories,” “Excavations Reported by UPI,” and seven others in Coast Lines: Eight Santa Cruz Poets, Small Poetry Press, 1996

  • “Needing Mama,” poem, In Celebration of the Muse: 15th Anniversary Anthology, Quarry West, No. 33

  • "Writing to Survive/Surviving to Write," essay, The Journal, CAMI, Vol. 4 No. 4

  • “Casualties,” Chinquapin 8, Porter College, UCSC, Spring 1994

  • ”Mad Women Meet to Advocate for Themselves,” LaGazette, April 1994

  • "He's My Brother," Santa Cruz Magazine, January 1994, p. 3. Plea for dentistry at Board & Care homes

  • "Bonding," poem, Caprice, Motherlode issue, ed. Lynne Savitt, November 1991

  • "Hysteria Moderna," Hysteria, University of California at Santa Cruz, Spring 1990

  • "Witnesses" and 22 other short-shorts, Flash Fiction: When Genres Collide, ed. Maggie Roth, Peak Output Unlimited, 1990

  • “Derrida Deconstructs ‘Before the Alphabet,’” in Practical Criticism Reader, University of  California, Santa Cruz, 1988-1990.

  • "Computer Literate," short story, Porter Gulch Review, Cabrillo College, Spring 1988

  •  "Love's Labors Lost," short story, The Paper Bag, Vol. I, No 1, Winter l988

  •  "B is for Bad," short story from Candace Lexicon, Chinquapin 9, UCSC, Spring l988

  • "And No Birds Sang," short story, Cream City Review, Vol. 12, No 1, Winter l988

  • "Counseling," short story, New Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. III, No 5, 1987

  • "Charity Luncheon in Pink," short story, Greenfeather, l987