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PUBLICATIONS

Books:

All My Relations, short story collection, University of Georgia Press, 1994

Here I Am a Writer, non-fiction, Kitsune Books, 2011

Anthologies:  

  • The Story Behind the Story (ed: Peter Turchi and Andrea Barrett, 2004)
  • Listening to the Voices: Stories from the Flannery O’Connor Award (ed. Charles East, 1998) Tumblewords: Writers Reading the West (ed.: William L Fox, 1995)
  • Picador Book of Contemporary Fiction (ed.: Tobias Wolff, 1993)
  • Fiction of the Eighties (Eds.: Reginald Gibbons and Susan Hahn, 1991)
  • Best American Short Stories 1986 (ed.: Raymond Carver)

Short Stories: 

  • Arts and Letters
  • Colorado Review
  • FictionGulf Coast (2)
  • Hayden’s Ferry Review
  • Indiana Review 
  • Mazagine
  • Missouri Review (2)
  • Ploughshares
  • Puerto del Sol (2)
  • The Puritan
  • Sonora Review
  • Story Quarterly
  • TriQuarterly (3) 

Non-fiction articles and reviews:

  • Arizona Reading Journal
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
  • Easy Living Magazine
  • Green Valley News
  • Journal of the West
  • Puerto del Sol
  • Sonora Review
  • Tucson Citizen
  • Tucson Weekly News
  • Washington Post Book World

Non-fiction Chapter:

  • Non-fiction chapter: “Keeping It Real: Writing Under the Shadow of Standardized Testing” in Creative Writing in the Community, ed. Terry Ann Thaxton, Continuum/Bloomsbury 2014

 

Awards

  • President’s Book Awards, Florida Publishers Association, Inc., 2011
  • Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, 2010
  • Artist Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, 1999
  • Arizona Writer’s Fellowship, 1986, 1996
  • Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, 1992
  • National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, 1987