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Publications, Commissions & Awards

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The Opposite of Hollywood
Whoa Nelly Press 2015

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Spiral of Gratitude: A public memorial with artist Shimon Attie and the San Francisco Arts Commission 2014

Essays & Poetry
​Unholy Mother
​When a Lion is Chasing You
​The Body Geographic

Short Fiction & Nonfiction
Treasure House
Painted Hills Review
youtalkintame?
Tenderloin Times
California Tomorrow
Issues
World University News

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Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail
Community Works/Creative Work Fund 2006

 ‘Entropy’ 
in Fightin’ Words Heyday/PEN, 2014

Productions
What She Would Say
Film by Erica Jordan (1996)

Geography
excerpt broadcast on KPFA Radio (1995)

Rhino Fresh
in Ethnic Cleansing, Downy Fresh
Marin Headlands, CA (1994)

What She Would Say, Lionheart Theater, Chicago, IL (1993)

Residencies
Hedgebrook
Squaw Valley
Norcroft Writers Colony
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How I Learned to Cook & Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships
Tarcher/Penguin 2004

Awards
San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant (2005 & 2007)

Creative Work Fund (2006)

Professional and Amateur Writers Association, Honorary Mention (2002)

North Texas Professional Writers Assoc. for Creative Nonfiction (2000)

Nomination for the Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction (1995)

Semi-Finalist for James Award of the Heekin Foundation for Fiction (1995)

Treasure House Prize/Fiction (1994)

Paintbrush Award/Fiction (1994)