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October 14, 2011
Short story “Dammed” published in the South Dakota Review.
August 10-20, 2011
Attended Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury, Vermont.
June 13, 2011
Short story “Dammed” accepted for publication in the South Dakota Review.
June 1, 2011
Short story “Hard Men” a finalist for the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, Salem College Center for Women Writers International Literary Awards 2010.
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A Taste of What I Write
"A Dangerous Shine," Word Riot
When Shine told people she bartended at the Buckhorn, their eyes widened. “What’s a nice girl like you,” they said, and then their voices trailed off. “I heard somebody got shot,” they said. There was a real bullet hole in the mirror, but it was ancient history—part of the bar’s character, like the heads on the walls and the smell of stale beer. To Shine, it felt safe, like sitting on a gargantuan comfy couch with all your cousins—sunk into the softness, everyone good-naturedly elbowing everyone else. Read More
"Control Erosion," SNReview
It was catastrophic failure Norman was worried about. The bridge was being undermined. The river meandered to the left where it came from under the bridge’s pylons, and over time the water had seriously undercut the rock riprap that protected the right bank and the bridge itself. It was Baer’s Law—because of the forces of the earth’s rotation, in the northern hemisphere the right banks of rivers were hardest hit by erosion. Read More (.pdf)
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