Work at Work

Institutions where my stories have been, or will be used within the curriculum include:

Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Brown University, Providence, RI
Cleveland State, Cleveland, OH
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Hiram College, Hiram OH
Illinois Humanities Council
Massachusetts Humanities
University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY

Please let me know if you use my work for educational purposes or reading groups and I'd be interested to know how it went.




Other recognition:

Semifinalist, Iowa Short Fiction Award 2005
Finalist, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, Fall 1999
Inkwell Short Fiction Competition Finalist 1998

Recent and Selected Work

Fiction
Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
“These edgy, heartfelt, wryly humorous stories... tell us what it’s really like to doctor, to patient, to suffer and to redeem.”
--Samuel Shem author of The House of God and Mount Misery.
"Soft Landings"
Eclectica Magazine
"Empowerment Centers"
The Battered Suitcase
"Comfortable"
Hamilton Stone Review 17;2009
"Fortunata"
The Bryant Literary Review 9; 2008: 24-50
"Avignon"
"Tattoo Highway" Volume #16: Sidekicks & Fellow Travelers
Nonfiction
Doctor vs. Patient: Pain Mismanagement in the ED
Atrium
The Story Always Comes First
NYU Literature, Arts and Medicine blog
Why Must Pain Patients Be Found Deserving of Treatment?
Virtual Mentor: AMA Journal of Ethics 10;2008:5-12.
This I Believe WRNI
"The Power of Denial"
Essay--Radio