My fiction has been anthologized in Worlds Within their Words: Contemporary American Women Writers and my essays in The Barbie Chronicles: A Real Doll Turns Forty and Successful Writing Strategies. I have received two grants for fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and my latest short story appears on-line http://streetlightmag.com/in-this-issue-no-5 and I currently have essays in Zone 3 and in Appalachian Heritage. I teach writing with the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and I have taught creative writing at Hollins University and persuasive writing, rhetoric, at Hampden-Sydney College.