FORTHCOMING:NOVEMBER 2020.

“Your life is already artful—waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.” ―Toni Morrison 

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”―Albert Einstein

"How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?" ―BKS Iyengar

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The essays in this forthcoming book have appeared in published form and/or recognized as follows:

• “Little Brides of Christ” appeared in A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, edited by Joan Larkin, (New York; Avon, 1999).
• “Blind Edge,” appeared in Women on the Verge, edited by Susan Fox Rogers, (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999) and was originally titled “The Rest of the Party.”
• Excerpts from “God is a Lesbian” appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, in December 2008.
• “Third Sister” appeared as “Seven Sacraments in The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, edited by Edvige Giunta and Louise DeSalvo, (The Feminist Press, 2002) and was excerpted in Body & Soul Magazine as “The Food of Faith and Love.”
• “Four Days in Silence (Or, Get Me To A Nunnery)" was a finalist for a New Millennium Writings Award, and the basis for a writing grant from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, originally titled, “Four Days in Silence, Or Get Me To The Nunnery”
• “This Comes Next” appeared in Life in Provincetown Magazine (LIP), 2002.
• “An Auspicious Day—May 17, 2004” was a runner-up for the Laura Coen Pizer Award and appeared in Italian American Writers under the title “Italian Bride” (New York: Creative Nonfiction, 2004).
• “What Gets Passed On” appeared in the New York Times Modern Love Column, December 11, 2011 as “What Wasn’t Passed On.”