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.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

How I know I'm almost home




When I see this out of the right side of the car. I'm about two hours out of Atlanta, and will be home before I know it.

Thanks, E., for the ride home from Charlotte. Thanks, Queens University of Charlotte alumni and friends for a full house reading on Thursday. Thanks 200 + people in the auditorium in St. Louis the day before!

So happy to workshop an essay this weekend with the most excellent, appearing in the role of guest faculty, Rob Spillman of Tin House magazine (go to their workshop in Oregon, y'all!) and the Queens grads weekend!
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