Photo at left: The Blackfly Writers Retreat, 2017. Husband Drew and I are  smack dab in the middle.

Awards: Chapter One Prize Winner 2024

Published Writings

Short Stories

• What Grows in the Garden Literally Stories (1/20/2017)
• Thelma and Addie Literally Stories (2/21/2017)
• Sturgis Spins a Good One Fiction on the Web (5/4/2020)
• Blue Collar The River (11/18/2020)
• On the Ellen Show The Broadkill Review (1/1/2023)

Self-help

• Find a Sweetheart Soon Self published, available on Amazon

Fiction Reader for the Free State Review and Galileo Press , 2022; The Southeast Review, 2023 to present.

Private Mentoring

I've worked individually with creative writing faculty Mark Winegarder from Florida State University (December 2022 to present) and Karen Tucker, University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill  (2019-2022). 

Conferences     

• Iota Short Prose Conference. Roosevelt Campobello International Park. July 8-1, 2017    
•  AWP Annual Conference and Book Fair, March 7–10, 2018, Tampa, Florida   
• Atlanta Writers Conference, March 9-10, 2019     
• Longleaf Writers Conference, May 14-21, 2022. Seaside, Florida

Workshops

• How (Not) To Pitch A Magazine, Brian Kevin, Managing Editor, Down East magazine. Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance workshop, June 9, 2018
• Unputdownable, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance workshop, June 16, 2018
• Devil in the Details, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance workshop, August 18, 2018
• Agents Editors Writers 2108. Belgrade Lakes, ME. September 22, 2018
• MWPA PITCH. Portland. ME. September 29, 2018
• Blackfly Writer’s Retreat. Grand Lakes Stream, ME. May 2 – 5, 2019 
• Marketing for Writers with Allison Pottern Hoch, July 2019
• Blackfly Writers’ Retreat. Online, April 30- May 3, 2020
• Real Talk, Tanya Whiton. Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, June 2020
• How to Write a Play When You Don’t Want To (Or Feel Like You Can’t or Have No Idea How To Get Started), John Cariani. Blue Hill WORD conference, October 2020
• Electrify Your Fiction with Blair Hurley, Winter 2021. MWPA
• Reading to Revise with Chaya Bhuvaneswar, February 2021  MWPA
• Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play with Maya Shanbhag Land, Spring 2021. MWPA
• Write What You Don’t Know with Evgeniya Dame, August 2021 MWPA
• MWPA PITCH. Online. September 25, 2021
• Marketing for Writers with Allison Pottern Hoch, October 2022

Classes 

• Iota Creative Nonfiction with Penny Guilsinger. Fall 2017 (Online)
• Elements of the Novel, Ginger Moran. Fall 2017 (Online)
• Creative Writing. Wesleyan University (Coursera). The Craft of Plot, Character, Setting and Description, and Style (Online). Fall 2018
• Fiction Technique. Florida State University, Spring 2020
• Perspectives on the Short Story. Florida State University, Summer 2020