New Media
Podcast with Diana Abu-Jaber, 2009
Fiction
"Pilgrim for Hire" (VoiceCatcher, 2007)
"Marry Me, Life" (Ooligan Press, 2007)
To download this story for free, click on the Ooligan Press link, then download The Hidden Self. My story starts on booklet page 13, PDF page 23.
"Object Noises" (The Rake, now Secrets of the City, June 2006)
Book Reviews
I'm working on recording all my reviews on Goodreads, which is a great service in general, and in particular, is an efficient way to convey all sorts of things about the books I review. Here's the start of my grid with my reviews still listed below as well.
My Seeing Indigo reviews
The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself by Hannah Holmes and Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin (The Oregonian, January 23, 2009)
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2000)
The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig (The Oregonian, October 17, 2008)
Soucouyant by David Chariandy (Rain Taxi, Winter 2007/2008)
Tell Borges If You See Him by Peter LaSalle (Library Journal, 2007)
The Conference on Beautiful Moments by Richard Burgin (Pleiades, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2007)
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande (The Oregonian, April 22, 2007)
Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths (The Oregonian, January 28, 2007)
Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology (Page 1 Page 2) edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Rain Taxi, Vol. 11 No. 3, Fall 2006)
The Body Parts Shop by Lynda Schor (American Book Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, January/February 2006)
Yancey's War by William Hoffman (Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, Vol. 55, No. 3, Winter 2005)
Articles and Essays
"Pilgrim for Hire," excerpt (Don't Sabotage Your Submissions: Save your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A. by Chris Roerden, Bella Rosa Books, June 2008)
The quote from my story is under Clue #21: Gestured to Death, in which Roerden recommends using original gestures that convey emotion. She wrote in the book: "If you cannot easily show a mannerism that communicates what you want it to, show what you can and also tell about it." Roerden wrote in an e-mail to me that mine was "one of six examples that perfectly illustrate an original gesture shown in an original way—I love the color you use and the gesture itself, tapping. Thank you for sending it to me and enriching the experience of the writers who will read it."
"Language Redux: How One Writer's Trip to South Korea Became a Study in Learning from Scratch" (Writers Finders Newsletter, December 2007/January 2008)
#4 in "The Bitch List: An Annotated Guide (in Alphabetical Order) to Some of Our Favorite Things" (Bitch magazine,Issue 37, Fall 2007)
"Out of the Book: Local Book Giants Step Behind the Camera" (PDX Magazine, August 2007)
"Get a Little Verse with Your Drink: Poetry Northwest Happy Hours" (LivePDX.com, June 14, 2007)
"It's Time to Vent with Hate Mail" (LivePDX.com, June 13, 2007)
"Voices from the Street: A Local Discussion Grabs National Attention" (PDX Magazine,June 2007)
"Everybody Reads: Portlanders Crack Open a Novel Together" (PDX Magazine, February 2007)
"Looking for Mr. Goodbook" (The Rake, now Secrets of the City, September 21, 2004)
"The Safari That Was, and the One That Wasn't" (The Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 2004)
Awards
Ooligan Editors' Choice Annual Short Story Contest (2007)
Elisabeth A. McPherson Award for Women Writers (2006)
St. Paul Pioneer Press,Finalist, Community Columnist contest (2004)
