Publications
The Book
Were You Close? A sister’s quest to know the brother she lost
“A masterful guide to loving and losing the extraordinary among us.”
— Mary E. Plouffe Ph.D., author of I Know It in My Heart: Walking through Grief with a Child
Anthologies
- “The Color of Endurance” • The Loss of a Lifetime: Grieving Siblings Share Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope
- “Connected” • Better Together: Women Gathering
- “Hugger” • The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink
- “Antares” & “Stealth” • Vita Brevis Poetry Anthology Volume III, Winter 2021/22
- “Blues” • Stone Gathering, Winter 2021-22
Essays
- “Borrowed Angels” • Freshwater Literary Journal
- “March 14” for the This Year: 2025 timecapsule • Big Table Press
- “Writing Through Loss and Grief” • Midstory Magazine
- “Writing Through Loss” • Brevity blog
- “Rapid Cycler” • Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
- “My brother died and people acted as if I shouldn’t be so sad” • The Boston Globe
PDF >> “A sibling’s death is untrodden territory” - “Saltwater” • The Linden Review
- “The Compass” • The Keepthings
- “Friends Like These” • The HerStories Project
(reprinted in Midstory Magazine and She’s Got Issues, as “The Gift of Friendship”) - “Heirlooms” • Farmer-ish print annual > PDF
- “Humane” • Shooter Literary Magazine
- “The Beautiful Mundane” • Lunch Ticket (runner up for Diana Woods Memorial Award)
- “A Game of Will” • The Bark > PDF
- “Survivor’s Debt” • Ars Medica
- “The Hell of Book Proposal Writing” • Multiplicity Magazine
- “Linus and B” • Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
- “Higher, Farther, Faster” • Hippocampus Magazine
- “Having a Dead Sibling is Full of Contradictions” • Modern Loss
- “Words With Tommy” • Entropy Magazine
- “A Cat Named Sam” • Write Angles Journal
- “Memorial Park” • riverSedge Literary Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1
- “Tell the Truth and Lie to Me” • Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
- “Congratulate Kim on Her Work Anniversary” • Modern Loss