FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

1987

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Individual Artist Grant

1988

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

1991

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1994

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

1995

James Jones Novel-In-Progress Fellowship Finalist for “An Endurable World.”

Administered by Wilkes University, PA.

1997

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award for work-in-progress

2004

River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize for Where the Trail Grows Faint

PUBLICATIONS 

Books

The Time Change.  Bristol:  Ampersand Press, 1992. (Lynne Hugo deCourcy)

A Progress of Miracles. San Diego:  San Diego Poets Press, 1993. (Lynne Hugo deCourcy)

Swimming Lessons, co-author, Anna Tuttle Villegas (novel).  New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1998.

·   Featured selection of Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club, Nov. 1998

·   First serial rights condensation

Good Housekeeping (May, 1998)

·   Econ & List, Germany

Frei Schwimmer (March, 1999)

·   Flammarion, Quebec

La Lecon de Natation (May, 1999)

·   Editorial Atlantita, Argentina (August, 1999)

Nadar la Vida

·   J’ai Lu, Quebec

(mass market paperback book club, September, 1999)

·   Pisgat Idit, Israel (forthcoming)

·   Sheuisha, Japan, 1998

·   DeProm, Holland (forthcoming)

·   Excelsior, Italy

Lezioni di Nuoto, 2007

·   Euromedia, Czechoslovakia (forthcoming)

·   Television movie produced by Hearts Entertainment “Another Woman’s

Husband,” premiered March 2000, on Lifetime Television.

Baby’s Breath, co-author Anna Tuttle Villegas (novel)  San Francisco: Synergistic Press. Fall, 2000.

·   Flammarion 2002

Un Lien Si Fragile

·   France Loisirs Success Du Livre Edition, Paris 2003

Un Lien Si Fragile

·   J’ai Lu. Edition (mass market paperback, 2004)

Un Lien Si Fragile

Jessica’s Two Families

Far Hills, NJ:  New Horizons Press, (children’s title) Aug. 8, 2005

Where The Trail Grows Faint: A Year In The Life of a Therapy Dog Team 

(memoir)  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press.  May 1, 2005

The Unspoken Years (novel)

New York:  NEXT Books (Harlequin).  Mass Market paperback, world rights.

May 1, 2006

Graceland (novel)

New York:  NEXT Books (Harlequin).  Mass Market paperback, world rights

Oct. 1, 2006

Last Rights  (novel)

         New York:  NEXT Books (Harlequin). Trade paperback, world rights

         June 1, 2009
 

The Sea Farmers (competed novel, with agent)

Remember My Beauties (novel in progress)

Feature

“Two Women, One Voice,” Fiction Writers Magazine, July, 1999.

Articles:

“Chainsaw Poetry,” Ohio Journal of English Language Arts, Vol. 39, No. 1,

Summer, 1998.

Chapbook:

The Good Child.  Galloway, New Jersey: Stillwaters Press, 1990.

Anthology

“Her Suitcase Packed” poem in Life On The Line, Sue Walker, Ed. Mobile: Negative

Capability Press, 1992.

Inclusions:

“The Lieutenant,” poem in Paul Edwards, Ed. The Hermit Kingdom.  Dubuque, IA:

Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 1995.

“Cuba’s Special Period: Dial 911 And Wait Forever,” long essay in Kathleen

Ciskran, Ed.  Tanzania On Tuesday.  Minneapolis:  New Rivers Press, 1997.

“Small Power” in Poetry from Sojourner, A Feminist Anthology. 

Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Other:

Black Buzzard Review

April, 1991

“First Poem”

Black River Review

August, 1991

“Whatever He Calls It”

Calliope

Vol. 11, No. 2, ‘88

“The Water Poem”

“Dancing to Glenn Miller”

Vol. 12, No. 1, ‘89

“Wife”

“The Lovers on the Beach”

“The Skater at Practice”

“Like Any Woman: At The

Core”

“Like Any Woman: Begging

For Words”

Vol. 12, No. 2, ‘89

“His Good Life”

“June First”

Vol. 13, No. 1, ‘91

“Poem”

“Visiting The Graves”

“Hands”

Vol. 14, No. 1, ‘91

“August”

“Across The Table”

Vol. 14, No. 2, ‘91

“Suggestions For A Writer

Between Stories”

Vol. 15, No. 1, ‘91

“Rockland State Hospital”

“Walking In The Woods:

Late Nov.”

Vol. 15, No. 2, ‘92

“Chances”

Calyx

Vol. 2, No. 1,

Winter ‘88

“August Birthing”

Vol. 13, No. 3, ‘92

“The Task At Hand”

Vol. 14, No. 2, ‘93

“Versions”

Vol. 16, No. 1,

Summer ‘95

“The Horses of the Night”

(novel excerpt)

Catalyst

Issue No. 10, 1992

“Waiting”

Centennial Review

Spring, 1993

“In The School of the Dance”

“Her Lonliness”

Cimarron Review

No. 83, April ‘88

“Generations”

Cincinnati Poetry Review

No. 19, ‘89

“Autumn Drive”

No. 23, Fall ‘91

“Independence Day”

Annual, 1994

“Say It Was”

“The Breath of The Valley”

Annual, 1995

“Jazz”

“Menu”

Annual, 1996, No. 27

“Love Poem”

CQ

1993

“How He Did It”

The Devil’s Millhopper

Annual, 1991

“War Baby”

Annual, 1991

“In A Restaurant”

Annual, 1991

“Evening Portrait: Grand

Central Station”

Earth’s Daughters

Spring, 2004

“Home”

The Eleventh Muse

Forthcoming

“The Lovers Abandon

Failure”

Forthcoming

“The Time Change:

October”

Embers

Vol. XV, No. 2, ‘90

“Affirmation”

“Thin Ice”

“What I Have”

Vol. XVI, No. 2, ‘91

“Closing The Bakery”

Vol. XVI, No. 2, ‘91

“The Time Change: April”

“Passing Through Darrville”

Winter, 1993

“Fairy Tale”

Great River Review

No. 18, ‘89

“Evening Prayer”

No. 20, ‘91

“Distance”

Forthcoming

“Reconciliation”

G.W. Review

Vol. 11, Spring ‘91

“Winter Storm”

Spring, 1993

“The Convalescent Home”

Heartbeat

Forthcoming

“What We Try To Save”

Hurricane Alice

Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 1993

“Evening News”

Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 1993

“The Door”

Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 1995

“Mercy” (short story)

Iowa Woman

Winter, 1992

“Letter From Aspen”

Spring, 1993

“Opening The Cottage”

Iris: A Journal About Women

No. 20, Fall/Winter ‘88

“This”

No. 22, Fall/Winter ‘89

“Three Photographs For The

Album”

No. 23, Spring/Summer

‘90

“Like Any Woman Yearning For

Time”

Summer, 1993

“Memorial”

Kalliope

Vol. X, No. 2, ‘89

“Fear”

Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall ‘91

“Lowcountry Portrait”

Minnesota Review

No. 32, Spring ‘89

“Leaving”

Mid-American Review

Vol. VIII, No. 1. ‘88

“Changing the Gown”

Vol. IX, No. 1, ‘89

“The Pearls”

Vol. XII, No. 2, ‘92

“The Fire At The Rim”

Negative Capability

Vol. IX, No. 1, ‘88

“Walking Toward The Light”

“Recognition”

New Laurel Review

Vol. XVI, Annual, ‘88

“The Dancing Dream”

Nimrod

Vol. 32, No. 1, ‘88

“The River”

Ohio Journal of The

English

Vol. 39, Summer 1998

“Chainsaw Poetry” (essay)

Language Arts

Palo Alto Review

Spring, 1993

“The Teacher”

Spring, 1994

“The Education of A Feminist:

A Vital Absence” (essay)

Fall, 1993

“Learning” (essay)

Passages North

Vol. 11, No. 1, Summer

‘90

“Manhattan”

Poets On:

Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter ‘90

“Bearing Comfort”

Prairie Schooner

Vol. 63, No. 3, Fall ‘89

“At Bedtime”

Primavera

Annual, 1991

“A Girl’s Astronomy”

Annual, 1991

“Thirst”

Forthcoming

“Insomnia”

“The Use of Women”

The Pittsburgh Quarterly

Winter, 1993

“Traveling”

Spring, 1993

“Abuse”

Spring, 1994

“At Fisherman’s Wharf”

The Quarterly

No. 10, ‘89

“Searching”

“Watching My Daughter Skate:

In Training”

“Like Any Woman: Those

Dreams”

“Sister, Did You Say Pray?”

No. 13, ‘90

“Underground”

“Reunion With White Zinfindel”

No. 16, ‘90

“Escape”

No. 17, ‘90

“Traveling”

No. 18, ‘91

“The Life Of The Writer”

Rhino

Annual, ‘90

“Light”

So To Speak

June, 1995

“An Exile’s Dream” (essay)

May, 1997

“Fifty” (book excerpt)

Slant

Vol. IV, ‘90

“Halfway”

Annual, 1992

“The Edge”

Annual, 1993

“How August Hat Undid Me”

Annual, 1995

“She Wants To Wear A Crystal”

Soujourner

June, 1992

“Small Power”

South Florida Poetry

Review

Spring ‘91

“Afterlife”

Tar River Poetry

Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring ‘90

“Truce”

Vol. 30, No. 2

“In Our Room”

Three Rivers Poetry

Journal

No. 33/34, ‘89

“Taking Him From The Cell”

Voices From The Middle

February ‘98

“The Teacher”

Women’s Words

Forthcoming

“The Mountains In The Way”

(novel excerpt)

Wisconsin Review

Vol. 24, No. 1, ‘90

“Fire”

“Clarity”

“In Florida”

“Like Any Woman: Waking To

Grief”

Zone 3

Vol. IV, No. 3, Fall ‘89

“Apology”

Vol. IV, No. 3, Fall ‘89

“The Good Child”

Winter ‘91, Cover Poem

“Exposure”

Vol. VII, No. 1, Winter

1992.

“Vision”

Vol. VII, No. 1, Winter

1992.

“Tracking”

Vol. VII, No. 1, Winter

1992.

“Blue Hills”

Vol. VII, No. 1, Winter

1992.

“Sunday Afternoon”

Vol. VII, No. 2, Fall 1992

“Mercy”

Vol. VII, No. 2, Fall 1992

“In Season”

Vol. VIII, No. 1, Winter

1993

“The Visit”

VISITING WRITER 

April 21-23, 1991

Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI

April 24-25, 1995

Xenia High School, Xenia, OH

May 16, 1995

Masig Middle School, Centerville, OH

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 

April-June 1992

Talawanda Middle School, Oxford, OH

May 1994

Ohio Arts Council appointment to Artists In Education Program for Ohio

public school writer-in-residence positions:

Jan. –Mar. 1995

Solon Middle School, Salon, Ohio. 4 weeks

Feb. 1995

O.R. Edgington School, Englewood, Ohio

2 weeks

May 1995

Columbiana County Headstart Programs,

Lisbon, Ohio. 1 week

Dec. 1995

Fairfield Elementary School, Highland, OH

2 weeks

Mar.-May 1996

Columbiana County Headstart Programs,

Lisbon, OH. 5 weeks

Feb. 1997

Washington Elementary School, Tiffin, OH

2 weeks

March 1997

Notre Dame Academy (senior high school

Level), Toledo, OH. 2 weeks

April 1999

Kings High School, Kings Mill, OH. 2 weeks

WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP 

Oct. 31, 1992

Women Writers Conference (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY)

(Poetry Workshop)

Nov. 1, 1992

North Central Women’s Studies Association Regional Conference

(University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY)

Daughters of Academia: The History of Our Mothers’ Education.

(Essay presentation)

July 2007

Antioch Writers’ Workshop Faculty

(Daily intensive in creative nonfiction)

 OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Bloom Township High School, Chicago Heights, IL

English and American Humanities

Lebanon Correctional Institution, Lebanon, OH

3 day workshop through Wilmington College

EDUCATION 

B.A. Connecticut College

New London, CT

M.S. Miami University

Oxford, OH

MEMBERSHIPS

Authors Guild

Poets and Writers