FICTION

SHORT FICTION

SHORT STORY COLLECTION

Wild Hearts Don't Break and Other Stories: 1980
Longlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project Award

NOVEL

A multi-voice novel about loss, guilt, the fierce beauty of nature, and the ambiguity of good and evil. Former NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse called the anti-hero character, Jack Allsman, “Faulkneresque.”

NEWS & PRAISE

2014 William Wisdom-William Faulkner Award Semifinalist

Milwaukee's Award-Winning Marjorie Robertson Comes Home with a Coming-of-Age Novel, The Shepherd Express (December 26, 2017)

Drawing inspiration from place and art, these short stories are held together by characters caught between stagnation and yearning to break out, sometimes in a self-destructive way. Each story is a baton pass to the next in that way.

Selected stories:

“Orange and Yellow” // The Ekphrastic Review (April 9, 2022)

“Open Window” // Grain Magazine (Winter 2018)

“Blue Dove” // The SFWP Quarterly (May 2016)