Publications
Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Books
Parenting Children with Mental Health Challenges:
A Guide to Life with Emotionally Complex Kids
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Fiction
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“Small Change,” (nominated for the Pushcart Prize) in YARN |
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“Dentist of the Wild West,” in the Fall 2011 issue of Hunger Mountain |
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“Dialogue,” in the Fall 2010 issue of Hunger Mountain Nominated for a Pushcart Prize Listen to Alan Vogel’s reading of “Dialogue” for Lit103.3 |
Creative Non-fiction
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NEW: “On Animals and Virtue,” in Pamplemousse |
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“An Anguished Choice To Help A Son With Mental Illness,” in Cognoscenti |
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“The First Time with Charlotte: New York City, circa 1996,” in Hunger Mountain |
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“Angst Begets Art: On Finding Beauty In A Life Of Anxiety,” in Cognoscenti |
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“Anxiety is an Enemy with Benefits,” excerpted in The Atlantic |
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“Breasts Are Not a Requirement: Life After a Double Mastectomy,” in O, The Oprah Magazine |
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“Benjy, Awake,” in Literarymama.com |
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“I Was Mighty,” in Huffington Post: Lifestyle |
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“There Be Mental Illness Here,” in The Missouri Review blog |
Books & Scholarship
New and available from online booksellers: Parenting Children with Mental Health Challenges: A Guide to Life with Emotionally Complex Kids.(Rowman and Littlefield, Nov. 2018)
I’m also working on other cool stuff, like a collection of essays about everything from hair-on-fire parenting, to marrying a son of Nazis, to shedding the leaves of a bookish life, and a novel set in London between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the Great War.
My scholarly articles can be found in Studies in English Literature, Studies in the Novel, Victorian Poetry, and Pedagogy.
Read my biographical sketches in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (“Henry Mayhew,” “Horace Mayhew”). Or, if you’re really brave you can pick up my book on Charles Dickens and the Victorian theater.
