My Xanthi • Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family • Hunger: The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction 2014-2019
"Invasion, Day 3" Finalist, Narrative Magazine Fall 2022 Story Contest, published May 2023 • “Little Buzzcut” Published Finalist, Mississippi Review 2019 Prize in Fiction • “Letter to an Archangel” Pushcart Prize Nominee, The New Guard Vol. VI • “Peepers” Pushcart Prize Nominee, Brilliant Flash Fiction • “Wormhole” Finalist, 47th New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction • “Wind. 風 Kaze” Semi-Finalist, The New Guard Machigonne Fiction Contest, Vol. IX • “Alexandria Revisited” Longlist, Brilliant Flash Fiction Librarians’ Choice Writing Contest • “Triptych” Honorable Mention, 49th New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction • “Maine Thaw” Featured Author, The New Guard’s BANG! February/March 2019
I know it’s biology, but it sounds like longing to me. Wet in places I don’t like. Through congealed mist beyond this dark high school parking lot, tiny tree frogs throat-sing their desire to mate. The theater inside’s quiet. My daughter’s opening night is over. I hung around too long, smiling, impersonating suave until they started locking up lobby doors. Now I’m alone out here, ambushed by the hormonal exuberance of frogs.
Pushcart Prize nominee, Brilliant Flash Fiction, September, 2018
Anthologized and published in Hunger: The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction 2014-2019
Photo courtesy of Unsplash
Uriel,
You were narrow as a starved Palestinian.
I had no idea who you were or why you appeared at my kitchen table. You struck like wildfire or a tsunami. You. Light of God with flame in his palm, brother to the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, wielder of the blistering sword at Eden’s Gates, presider over Hell—and, of all things, patron of the arts.
Whoosh. There you were. I had not the narrowest chink of time to figure you out.
Pushcart Prize nominee, The New Guard Vol. VI, published 2017
Photo courtesy of Loïc Mermilliod on Unsplash
“Twenty Years Ago: Reflections from our Founding Members” contributor, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 20 Yale J.L. & Feminism (2009) • “The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine ‘Political’” editor, 2 Yale J.L. & Feminism (1989) • In memoriam Yale Law Report
Sewanee Writers' Conference • Katahdin Fellow in residence, inaugural Storyknife Writers Retreat, Alaska • The Writers Hotel, Manhattan • GrubStreet Muse & the Marketplace • Washington Writers Conference • Colorado Book Festival
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“Let Our Forebears Rest with Their Dream” flash essay contributor, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency • KBBI 890AM, Alaska, Storyknife readings • “Putting Privilege to Work for Justice” Maine Voices, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram • “Clock Tower” essay contributor, Expressions of Hope, ILAP (Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project) • “Your right to vote without fear” guest column, Bangor Daily News • “Executive Transition: The Role of Board Diversity, Youth, and Zombies” guest blogger, Maine Association of Nonprofits • “Song for my city” guest column, Bangor Daily News
“Tarpon Springs” script and lyrics, music by Cheryl Hardwick, staged readings at Writers Theatre, Whole Theatre • “About Face” script and lyrics, music by Cheryl Hardwick, produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, 78th Street Theatre Lab • “Summer Friends” music and lyrics with Mel Marvin, produced at Playwrights Horizons, Colonnades Theatre Cabaret
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World premiere, Feingold translation “The Rise and Fall of the city of Mahagonny” • Premiere, Terrence McNally, “The Tubs” • “Watergate Classics” • “Happy End” • “I Married You for the Fun of It” • “The Little Mahagonny and The Seven Deadly Sins” • “Life is a Dream” • “The Big House” • “An Evening of Cole Porter” • “Jacques Brel: Songs”
“Nine” 49th Street Theatre, New York, Tony Award for Best Musical • “A Kurt Weill Cabaret” Bijou Theatre, New York • “Goodbye Fidel” Ambassador Theatre, New York • “Side by Side by Sondheim” national tour
“About Face” Manhattan Theatre Club, 78th Street Theatre Lab • “Summer Friends” Playwrights Horizons, Colonnades Theatre Cabaret • “Apple Pie” New York Public Theatre • “The Little Mahagonny” Manhattan Theatre Club • “The Voodoo Parlor of Marie Leveau” • “Sweet Will” • “Matelot” • “Green Pond” • “Signor Deluso” • “Devils and Diamonds” Manhattan Theatre Club
“Cabaret on Two Continents” Colorado Music Festival • “Devils and Diamonds” Williamstown Theatre Festival • “Green Pond” Spoleto Festival • Michael Shapiro’s “Dublin Songs” Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
“Man of La Mancha” • “Candide” • “Othello” • “The Animal Kingdom” • “The Coeducated Cole Porter”
“Moscow on the Hudson” • “Beyond the Limit” • “Hardhat and Legs” • NET Opera Theatre • “The Guiding Light”
Who’s Who in the Theatre – Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television Vol. 1 (17th ed.)
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