Fiction

Both my undergraduate and graduate degrees are in fiction writing, and in the pre-internet years that followed, I published short fiction in The Dangling Participle and Eureka Literary Magazine. Like so many writers, though, the real world got in the way of my imagination for a long time. Day jobs and parenting filled every hour and every corner of my mind.

Or did they?

It turns out that there were stories brewing there all along. Not all writing is in the trickle of words onto pages; it seems, all this time, there was writing happening in my daydreaming. And now, on my Substack, I’ve started sharing the hardest imaginings that have come to me.

If you like your dreams to last a little longer – and especially if you’re an editor interested in my first novel, a story about abortion and coming of age in the 1960s Midwest – you might reach out to my wonderful agent, Rena Rossner of The Deborah Harris Agency.

My second novel, currently underway, is also historical fiction. Here’s what I’m researching to build a world for my imaginary heroes:

• World War II airplane factories and the women who worked there
• Chromium yellow paint
• Narcissistic injury
• Scrap metal drives
• Radical radiotherapy
• Intergenerational trauma
• Art school in the 1980s
• Graveyard iconography