Blog Posts

  • Video: My reading at MassPoetry’s U35

    I had a fabulous time a few weeks ago reading at the Marliave Restaurant in Boston, as part of MassPoetry’s U35 reading series. You can check out the videos of the other readers from that evening (Chen Chen and Sarah Tourjee) on the U35 site, as well as the bios for November’s upcoming readers. Also,…

  • In Search of Mother-Daughter Adventure Stories

    There are an awful lot of missing parents in middle grade, young adult, and classic adventure fiction. One or both (but more often the mother) are dead or missing or just mentally/emotionally absent, and substitute parental figures are often awful (I’m looking at you, fairytale stepmothers, wicked uncles, and well-intentioned but forgetful housemaids). I understand…

  • Find out what the bees know

    What’s the buzz, you ask? The summer issue of Window Cat Press is out, and in it are four of my poems, accompanied by photography by the ever-delightful Michele Morris. Check them out, and all the other goodies within here!

  • Pondering Puddles

    There was, as those of us in eastern Massachusetts know, quite a band of rain and hail that crossed through yesterday afternoon, which might be why the leader of our writers’ group last night had puddles on the brain. For one writing prompt, we were challenged to use the words ‘middle, addle, and puddle’ in…

  • Sunshiny Summer News: Poems in Print!

    Happy summer, all! In the wake of last week’s downright delightful Supreme Court decisions on health care and marriage equality, I have less-momentous but much more immediately personal good news; I have four poems that are being published this summer on Window Cat Press. Window Cat is an online literary journal run by a fabulous…