Writing
Novels
Second novel, approximately 95K words. A historical novel set in Mycenaean Greece, first written in 2004-2006. This novel is available from Soho Press.
Killingly
Current work in progress. Historical novel set at the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by a clipping from the New York Evening Journal found while I was researching a query for a Ransom Center patron.
Other novel-length projects
Borne
First novel, an approximately 100K-word work of literary fantasy, set in a world in which women grow wings. Written in 2003-04, unpublished.
The White Silk Tent
Novel-length creative nonfiction project based on my paternal grandmother’s unpublished memoir about life during the Depression. Partially drafted.
[Reason novel]
Historical novel project about an alternate-history Samuel Johnson. (And zombies! Just kidding. Actually, I think Samuel Johnson and Sea Monsters would be way more interesting than Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.)
[Byron novel]
About Greece, perhaps.
Selected short stories
“Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster”
Short-short, after Sei Shonagon. Available in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 19, the tenth anniversary issue, which is for sale here.
“The Interior Man”
Short story about Theseus, the Minotaur, and what it means to be a king. Won the Fall 2005 UT English Department Prize for fiction. Unpublished.
“The Former Hero”
A Shakespearean ghost story of sorts — a dark adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. You can read the beginning of this short story here. Seeking a home.
