Events

November,9-13 2010: Readings, and Talk, at the 2010 ANDEAN Conference, ( Association of Teachers of English in Spain) at The University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain.

Feb. 2010: Appearance at the Fringe Festival, Roanoke, VA, Sponsored by Hollins College, and others. More Later.

Words and Music Festival, Pirates Alley Faulkner Society, November, 2009. More Later.

October 17th, 2009: Appearances at The Louisiana Book Festival. Words in Progress Panel, and Country Roads Magazine Contest Winners Panel. 1 p.m.-2-15, and 2: to 3: 45 p.m. Louisiana State Capitol Building. Signing to follow.

July 1, 2009: Reading with Resa Aslan, the Cabildo, Sponsored by the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society, 6-8 p.m, New Orleans, LA

April 1-4 Conference on Southern Literature, presented by the FSW ( Fellowship of Southern Writers) in Chattanooga. Various venues.
Friday April 3: Reading and award presentation, Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction.

Friday, May 19: Interview by Smith College Alumna and author Sarah Collins Honenberger, during Reunion Weekend, Smith College, Northampton, MA ( More details later.)

SELECTED WORKS

Chapters of a novel
Excerpt from the novel in progress, ELYSIANA, in HABITUS Journal, Fall, 2008.
Set in the islands of New Orleans in 2132, Elysiana portrays a world where the gap between rich and poor is the gap between living forever and dying too soon---
essays
"The Art of Opening Up," and "Miracle at the Spotted Cat."
Stories in OXFORD AMERICAN, Fall 2008, and Fall, 2009
What Gets Into Us: Stories
A series of short stories set in a small North Carolina town, following the same characters from the staid fifties, through the upheaval of the sixties, to the social transformations of the present day.
book
Dream State
The characters in these stories love and hate the dishevelment and chaos and delights of South Louisiana--they know they should leave, but they don't want to--

Quick Links

Read the entire review of WHAT GETS INTO US on the cultural website POPMATTERS, comparing the collection to the works of Flannery O'Connor
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