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Essays and Short stories


"Lighting the Way"
Hippocampus Magazine

"Let Them Live One More Chapter"

Artisanal Writer


​"An Audience of One"
Months to Years


​"Learning to Let Love In"
New York Times


"Lucile's Diner"
The Bitter Southerner

"Coming Home:”
UTNE Reader and The Commonweal

"Brother Buddy's Gift"
Baltimore Review

"Another Mother"
Minnesota Monthly

"
Making Women Cry"
Salvation South


"Rock Solid Proof of God's Love"
Sky Island Journal


"Pearls Underfoot"
The Blue Mountain Review

"The Language of Home"
Dead Mule School for Southern Literature

"Our Wondrous Monsters"

Sky Island Journal

"Saved at the Piggly Wiggly"
​Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

"Never Get Good at What You Hate"
​Publishers Weekly

"Tell Me This One, Mamma"
Salon Magazine

"I Am A Recovering Racist"
Salon Magazine


“The Watch”
Stories from the Blue Moon Café III (August 2004)


“Letting the Future in Through Story”
A View from the Loft

“Passenger Trains and Other Forbidden Loves”
The Gertrude Journal


"A Place in the World"
Chicago Memory House


"How I Overcame My Addiction to Whiteness in 5 Steps"
AlterNet


Just Call Me a Dinosaur
A virtual children’s book. Illustrations by James Kuether. Voice by Ann Hinnenkam.

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photo by Bob Franks
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