About Me

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" has been named one of "Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read!" I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I have been honored with a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT., a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Fun things to come home to




1. The sun is shining here in Atlanta. No water damage at Timely Manor, as far as I can tell. This photo is NOT Timely Manor, or Atlanta. It's Driftwood Beach, and it's here because it's just damn pretty.

2. Thanks, Feminist Review for this lovely review, and for calling Invisible Sisters "inspirational."

3. Thanks, Atlanta Forum Network, for videotaping the author talk at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. (Takes a minute to load, and doesn't Phyllis look great, too?)

4. Lots of beach photos to download, and a huge bowl of fresh limes on our coffee table to figure out what to do with. (Ref photo, limes @ Timely Manor living room.) See, there was this prodigious lime tree in the beach house yard...

5. The novel has an ending. I wrote it. Now, to get there. (Anyone else out there write non-linearly? I am not a linear thinker, or writer! )
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