Fiction/Memoir

“Sunshine”, story, www.narrativemagazine.com, Spring, 2010 *O. HENRY AWARD, 2011
THE DARK END OF THE STREET, Bloomsbury, 2010

“National Dress”, original work, presented at 18th annual PEN/Faulkner Foundation Award for Fiction Gala, Elizabethan Theatre of the Folger Shakespeare Library, 24 September, 2007
Printed as “Twilight Zones”, memoir, Washington Life, December, 2007

“Running the Smalls Through”, memoir, THE OTHER WOMAN, ed. by Victoria Zackheim, Warner Books, New York, Spring, 2007

“Lost Beach World”, memoir, Allure, June, 2007

“Whose Life Was It, Anyway?”, memoir, O Magazine, August, 2006

“This Flesh, This Ghost”, story, www.narrativemagazine.com, Summer, 2004
Republished in Rattapallax Magazine, Spring, 2005

“The Widow’s Daughter”, story, Southwest Review, Winter, 2002

“The First Rule of Happiness”, story, Tin House, Summer, 2002

“An Error of Desire”, story, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring, 2002

“Motion Sickness”, story, Santa Monica Review, Fall, 2000

“Twilight”, story, Harpers Magazine, May, 1999

“The Lovely, Lovely”, memoir, The Atlantic Monthly, November, 1998

“Under the House”, story, Bomb (Fiction Issue), October, 1998
Reprinted in Best American Erotica, ed. Susie Bright, 2006
Reprinted in Norton Anthology of Literature by Women*, ed. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, 2007

“Ma, A Memoir”, story, The New Yorker, September, 30, 1996
Reprinted in MORE STORIES WE TELL: THE BEST CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES BY NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN, ed. Wendy Martin, Pantheon Books, 2004
Broadcast on “Stories on Stage”*, WBEZ, Chicago, IL, March 13, 2005
Performed by Marian Seldes, Selected Shorts, Symphony Space, New York, NY, Jan. 24, 2007

“Songbird”, story, Story, Spring, 1996

“The Mirror”, story, Harper’s Magazine, July, 1995

“Out of the Public Eye”, story, Femina, South Africa, April, 1995
Reprinted in Confrontation, Spring, 1996

“Family of Shadows”, story, Mirabella, July, 1994

“The Curse of the Appropriate Man”, story, in LOVE’S SHADOW: THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE, ed. Amber Sumrall Coverdale, The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA, Fall, 1993

“Selina Comes to the City”, story, American Short Fiction vol. I, no.2
Listed as one of 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1991, Best Short Stories of 1992, ed. Robert Stone, Houghton Mifflin, April, 1991

“Foreign Student”, story, SHAKING EVE’S TREE: SHORT STORIES OF JEWISH WOMEN, ed. Sharon Niederman, Jewish Publication Society, August, 1990
Reprinted in Femina, South Africa, July, 1994
Podcast on Nextbook.org (nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=248), January, 2006

“William”, story, Zyzzyva, San Francisco, September, 1987

“A Good Article”, story, Company Magazine, London, March, 1986