Publications and Awards:

Life Without Water – short story – St. Andrews Review – 1987

The Trip – short story – Winner – North Carolina Writers’ Network Fiction Syndicate – 1989

A Bag of Falling Stars – short story – finalist – O.Henry Festival Stories – 1991

The Plight of the Blue Collar Writer – essay – North Carolina Writers’ Network The Network News -1991

Loveline Lilly – short story – Honorable Mention – Spectator Fiction Contest – 1991

Maureen – short story – Sojourner – August 1994

Life Without Water – novel – Longstreet Press –  hardback – October 1996
Chosen as a New York Times Notable Book – 1996
Paperback – Bantam- 1997
Published in Germany – hardback – Europa Verlag – 1998
Paperback – Europa Verlag – 1999

My Vita – Why I Became a Blue Collar Writer – essay – Southern Exposure – 1997

Home Across the Road – novel – Longstreet Press – hardback – October 1999
Paperback – Bantam – 2000
Published in Germany – hardback – Europa Verlag – 2000
Paperback – Europa Verlag – 2002

Story Ideas Come in Odd Packages – essay – Chapel Hill News – July 2005

Loveline Lilly – short story – Southern Arts Journal – Winter Issue 2006

To the Man Who Carried My Bag – poetry – Southern Arts Journal – Winter Issue 2006

Enquiring Minds – essay (mistakenly published as fiction)- Southern Arts Journal – Summer 2006

A Broom of One’s Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life – memoir – Harper Perennial – a division of Harper Collins – April 2008

Refitting Your Suit – poetry – The Village Rambler – May/June 2008

English as a Second Language – poetry – Sugar Mule – Women Writing Nature Issue – August 2012

Three Haiku – haiku – Sugar Mule – Women Writing Nature Issue – August 2012

Grants:

Hope James Foundation – For Career and Artistic Development – 2009

Hope James Foundation – For Writing Retreat – 2012