“Violeta”
“That Woman who Writes”
Homage to John Updike’s “Rabbit, Run”
Essay on the short story Frederick Busch’s “Ralph the Duck”
Writer Duck
The Perils of Fiction
The Los Angeles Times, October, 2009
Off The Shelf: At church, she found her own kind of salvation
Essay: My Orange County
Freight Stories No.5, June, 2009
“The First and Second Time”
The Southern Review, Winter, 2009
“Winter Formal”
Santa Monica Review, Spring, 2008
“Johnny Hitman”
(Selected as one of the Notable 100 for Best American Short Stories 2009)
Florida Review, Spring, 2008
“The Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fizziwig”
Snake Nation Review, Issue no. 22, 2008
“Joe/Christina”
The Sun, July, 2006
“Sweet Rolls and Vodka”
Crate, 2006
“Parking Far Away”
Quality Women’s Fiction, 2005
“Thighs”
Literary Mama, 2001, 2002, 2003
“Baby Talk”, “The Soccer Banner”, “Morphine and Mother’s Milk”
Hip Mama, 1999
“Morphine and Mother’s Milk”