I have a flash nonfiction piece up at the first issue of Howling Mad Review, a magazine run by two of my favorite people, fellow Ashland MFA writers Amy Zanarek and Jason Gaidis. Check it out here.

Here is a list of all the books I read in 2019, minus the self-help and diet guides because you don’t need to know all that. Within find poetry collections, short story collections, memoir, investigative journalism, literary fiction, horror, young adult, and a western. I don’t finish books I don’t like, so I recommend every single one. The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson Red Clocks by Leni Zumas Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makkai The Hundred Year Flood by Matthew Salesses Rough Animals by Rae DelBianco Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen The Mars Room by Rachel…

I came home from the gym earlier today than I’d planned. I love going to the gym for long workouts on the weekend, overdoing it, and exercising to exhaustion. It’s fun for me. Don’t judge. But today I was interrupted so often by a man who motioned for me to remove my headphones so he could tell me his theories on education that I just got a different kind of exhausted and left. The best thing I ever did as a mother is to teach my daughters to block intrusive men. I almost wrote “to be rude to intrusive men”…

Authors Karen Bender and Paula Whyman are fiction editors of a cool literary magazine called Scoundrel Time. I’m really proud to say they were kind enough to work with me on my story Say His Name. When you read it you’ll know who was in my heart while I wrote it. Still waiting for some justice, by the way. Check out Scoundrel Time here.