BIO
Leah Browning is an American writer and editor. She is the author of Two Good Ears and Loud Snow, mini-books of short fiction published by Silent Station Press in 2021 and 2022, respectively. (The cover artwork for Two Good Ears is Marguerite by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and the cover artwork for Loud Snow is Phoenix and Sun by Itō Jakuchū.) These mini-books are available for purchase via Powell’s, IndieBound, Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and other online booksellers.
Her first full-length collection of poetry, When the Sun Comes Out After Three Days of Rain, was published by Kelsay Books in 2022. (Cover sculpture by Walter Moroder, cover photograph by Alexander, and cover design by Shay Culligan.) When the Sun Comes Out After Three Days of Rain is available for purchase via the Kelsay Books website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Bookshop.org, Books-A-Million, and elsewhere.
Browning is also the author of three short nonfiction books. The first two, Babysitting Basics and Babysitting Rules, are part of a six-volume series for pre-teens and teens. The complete set, published by Capstone Press in 2006, includes Babysitting Activities and Babysitting Skills by Wendy Ann Mattox and Babysitting Safety and Babysitting Jobs by Barbara Mehlman. Browning’s third nonfiction book is Sleepovers (from the “10 Things You Need to Know About” series), which was published by Capstone Press in 2008.
In addition to books, Browning has written six chapbooks of poetry and prose. Her first chapbook of poetry, Making Love to the Same Man for Fifteen Years, was released by Big Table Publishing in 2009 (cover photograph by Jimmy Kang), and her second, Picking Cherries in the Española Valley, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2010 (cover art by Sarah Browning). In a review in Off the Coast, M.J. Iuppa said that “in both chapbooks, Browning wrestles with time, creating a landscape that doesn’t follow a linear progression, but moves like a gyroscope (always circling back onto itself), making memory a mirror.” Iuppa’s full review appeared in print and online in the Winter 2011 issue of Off the Coast.
Browning’s third chapbook, In the Chair Museum, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2013 (cover art by Sarah Browning). Several poems from the collection were reprinted in The Wardrobe and A Year of Being Here. “Any Day Now” is also available on a printable broadside with original artwork by Sarah Browning.
Five poems from In the Chair Museum and Picking Cherries in the Española Valley were reprinted with audio recordings by Leah Browning and Nic Sebastian in The Poetry Storehouse (June 7, 2014). A short film by Paul Broderick, featuring the song “She Dreams in Blue” by Josh Woodward and the poem “Almost a Year After His Suicide” by Leah Browning, is available on Vimeo. A short film by Nic Sebastian, featuring the song “Mesmerism” by Masonik Arts and the poem “There’s Nothing,” written by Leah Browning and read by Nic Sebastian, was the Poets & Writers Clip of the Day on July 10, 2014.
Out of Body, Browning’s fourth chapbook of poetry, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2018. The cover photograph for this collection is The blue room by Elisa Imperi.
Browning’s first chapbook of short fiction, Things I Remember When I’m Sober, was released by Silent Station Press in 2015. Her second, Orchard City, was published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2017 (cover design by Sarah Reck).
“Longcase Clock,” a story from Orchard City, was reprinted in conjunction with Wigleaf’s tenth birthday. The story and a 2 1/2 Questions interview conducted by Wigleaf intern Haley Benson appeared on April 8, 2018. Excerpts from Orchard City were also reprinted in The Wardrobe and at FlashFiction.Net.
Leah Browning’s published work includes fiction in Four Way Review, Necessary Fiction, The Threepenny Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Forge Literary Magazine, Flock, Harpur Palate, Contrary Magazine, Waxwing, Terrain.org, South 85 Journal, Thin Air Magazine, The Petigru Review, Belle Ombre, Newfound, Superstition Review, Chagrin River Review, Watershed Review, Parhelion Literary Magazine, Ponder Review, Funicular Magazine, Mojave River Review, Random Sample Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Westchester Review, The Big Windows Review, River and South Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, Waypoints, First Class Literary Magazine, Route 7 Review, Bellows American Review, The Homestead Review, Santa Ana River Review, Dime Show Review, A Bad Penny Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Bluestem Magazine, Wigleaf, Halfway Down the Stairs, Per Contra, 300 Days of Sun, Storyscape Journal, LitroNY, Queen’s Feminist Review, The Citron Review, and elsewhere.
Fiction by Leah Browning has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, and the storySouth Million Writers Award. Her stories have also appeared in several anthologies including Myth+Magic (Sugared Water/Porkbelly Press, 2015) and Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence from The Marie Alexander Series, edited by Robert Alexander, Eric Braun, and Debra Marquart (White Pine Press, 2016).
Her poetry has appeared in The Broadkill Review, The Stillwater Review, Poetry South, Oyster River Pages, Coldnoon, Clementine Unbound, Belletrist Magazine, Freshwater Literary Journal, Mud Season Review, Heron Tree, Queen’s Quarterly, Tipton Poetry Journal, Autumn Sky Poetry, Blood Orange Review, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Corium Magazine, The Literary Bohemian, Glassworks Magazine, Salome Magazine, White Whale Review, The Driftwood Review, and other literary journals and magazines.
Browning’s poetry has been published as part of two series of postcards and one series of bookmarks from the program Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, on a broadside from Broadsided Press, and in thirteen anthologies including Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage, edited by Ginny Lowe Connors (Grayson Books, 2003); Miracles of Motherhood: Prayers and Poems for a New Mother, edited by June Cotner (Center Street/Hachette Book Group USA, 2007); To Have and to Hold: Poems, Blessings, and Wishes for Newlyweds, edited by June Cotner (Center Street/Hachette Book Group USA, 2007); Family Pictures: Poems & Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones, a coffee table book edited by Kwame Alexander (Capital BookFest, 2007); Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, edited by Alys Masek and Kelly Mayhew (City Works Press, 2010); Invention: Poems That Celebrate Who We Are and What We Do in Silicon Valley (2013); Gratitude Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose for Everyday Thankfulness, edited by June Cotner (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2013); The Doll Collection, edited by Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2016); Baby Blessings, edited by June Cotner (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2017); 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, edited by Matthew E. Silverman and Nancy Naomi Carlson (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021); and Lullabies & Confessions: Poetic Explorations of Parenting Across the Lifespan, edited by Louis Hoffman and Lisa Xochitl Vallejos (part of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Book Series, University Professors Press, 2021). In January 2021, the foreword for 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, written by Yehoshua November, was reprinted online on the blog for Tikkun Magazine.
While living in Arizona, Browning wrote more than thirty articles on assignment for the Arizona Jewish Post. She has also written articles for omg!, Associated Content, Tucson Lifestyle, Tucson Parent Magazine, Arizona Gourmet, and the Los Alamos Monitor, and essays for Associated Content, Wild Violet, Working Writer, the Arizona Jewish Post, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2 (Health Communications, 2004), and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Growing Up (Chicken Soup for the Soul, 2008).
Short humor has appeared in Points in Case, The Haven, and The Big Jewel.
One of Browning’s short plays was performed at OperaDelaware Studios in Wilmington, Delaware, for the City Theater Company’s 10-Minute Play Festival, and a full staged reading of a one-act was performed at Rainbow Books and Music in Newark, Delaware. Her most recent one-act play, Starlight and Turnips, was read at the Domino Theatre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on May 22, 2007.
In addition to writing, Browning serves as editor of the Apple Valley Review, an online literary journal established in 2005. The journal is published twice annually, in the spring and fall. Each issue features a collection of poetry, short fiction, and essays.
Browning was born and raised in New Mexico. As an adult, she has lived in both the United States and Canada.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Full-Length Books
The Costume Wedding (stories). Santa Rosa, CA: Betty Books, an imprint of WTAW Press, forthcoming.
When the Sun Comes Out After Three Days of Rain (poems). American Fork, UT: Kelsay Books, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-63980-217-3
Mini-Books
Loud Snow (stories). San José, CA: Silent Station Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-578-37677-6
Two Good Ears (stories). San José, CA: Silent Station Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-578-31291-0
Chapbooks
Out of Body (poems). Chicago, IL: Dancing Girl Press, 2018.
Orchard City (short fiction). Jefferson Hills, PA: Hyacinth Girl Press, 2017.
Things I Remember When I’m Sober (short fiction). San José, CA: Silent Station Press, 2015.
In the Chair Museum (poems). Chicago, IL: Dancing Girl Press, 2013.
Picking Cherries in the Española Valley (poems). Chicago, IL: Dancing Girl Press, 2010.
Making Love to the Same Man for Fifteen Years (poems). Newton, MA: Big Table Publishing, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9824955-0-6
Nonfiction Books for Teens and Pre-Teens
Sleepovers (from the “10 Things You Need to Know About” series). Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-1429613453
Babysitting Basics: Caring for Kids. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0736864626
Babysitting Rules: A Guide for When You’re in Charge. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-
0736864640
Short Stories
“Blueprint,” The Raven Review, Vol. 5, Issue 3 (July 2024), theravenreview.org.
“Elise in Italy,” “Elise in Austria,” “Elise in Croatia,” “Armie,” and “Shame” (excerpts from the mini-book Loud Snow), reprinted in The Wardrobe’s “Best Dressed” feature (June 17-21, 2024), https://sundressblog.com/the-wardrobe/.
“Wraparound Skirts,” Waxwing, Issue 29 (Fall 2023), www.waxwingmag.org.
“Caught,” Contrary Magazine (Summer 2023), https://contrarymagazine.com.
“Three Sheets,” The Big Windows Review, Issue 30 (Winter 2023), pp. 8-9, and online (December 2, 2022), https://thebigwindowsreview.com.
“Dark Horse,” Terrain.org (September 16, 2022), https://www.terrain.org.
“The Lawnmower,” Hive Avenue Literary Journal, Vol. 5 (May 2022), https://hiveavenue.wixsite.com/journal.
“Miscalculations,” Ponder Review, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Spring 2022), p. 64, https://www.muw.edu/ponderreview.
“Florida, 1993,” Litro Online (May 13, 2022), www.litromagazine.com.
“Around Her Neck,” October Hill Magazine, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 61-62, www.octoberhillmagazine.com.
“Four-in-Hand,” Wilderness House Literary Review, Vol. 17, No. 1/Issue 65 (Spring 2022), www.whlreview.com.
“Souvenirs from Another Life,” The Westchester Review (Spring 2022), westchesterreview.com.
“Armie,” Blue Lake Review (March 2022), https://bluelakereview.weebly.com.
“Elise in Austria,” Clementine Unbound (February 22, 2022), https://clementineunbound.wordpress.com.
“The Virtuoso (Circa 2018)” and “Hope for the Future,” Harpur Palate, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2022), pp. 20-21, 56 and online at harpurpalate.binghamton.edu.
“Brute,” The Big Windows Review, Issue 25 (Fall 2021), p. 7, and online (October 8, 2021), https://thebigwindowsreview.com.
“Year of the Rat,” Wild Roof Journal, Issue 9 (July 2021), pp. 55-57, wildroofjournal.com.
“Circuitry,” Field Notes, a project of Cordella Magazine (June 11, 2021), www.cordella.org.
“Scents/Sense/Cents,” a sequence of three linked stories, Flock, Issue 24 (Spring 2021), pp. 120-125, flocklit.com.
“Severance,” Parhelion Literary Magazine (Spring 2021), parhelionliterary.com.
“Good Girls,” The Ilanot Review, Vol. 21 (Spring 2021), www.ilanotreview.com.
“The Body in the Bedroom,” The Loch Raven Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 2021), thelochravenreview.net.
“Ventilation,” Necessary Fiction (March 31, 2021), necessaryfiction.com.
“My One and Only,” Thin Air Online (January 6, 2021), www.thinairmagazine.org.
“The Surrogate Wife,” The Petigru Review, Issue 15 (2020), www.thepetigrureview.com.
“The Rain in Brussels,” Two Hawks Quarterly (Fall 2020), www.twohawksquarterly.com.
“Quarantine of the Hothouse Roses,” Birdland Journal (Summer 2020), www.birdlandjournal.com.
“Rats (10.24.2016: p. 67,” Funicular Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1/Issue 4 (Summer 2020), pp. 48-49, www.funicularmagazine.com.
“Nobody Wants Your Heirlooms,” Wilderness House Literary Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2020), www.whlreview.com.
“Years Later (Revision),” River and South Review, Issue 5 (Summer 2020), www.riverandsouth.com.
“Porsche,” Boston Literary Magazine (June 2020).
“One-Night Stand,” Friday Flash Fiction (May 29, 2020), www.fridayflashfiction.com.
“If the Orchid in Question Were a Pink and White Lady’s Slipper,” Belle Ombre (March 2020), www.belleombre.org.
“Chappaquiddick,” one of three finalists for the 2019 Julia Peterkin Flash Fiction Contest, South 85 Journal (Fall/Winter 2019), http://south85journal.com.
“Role-Play,” Every Pigeon, Issue 5 (September 2019), http://everypigeon.com.
“Fever Dreams,” Mojave River Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2019), pp. 137-138, https://mojaveriverpress.com/mrr.
“90 Degrees, No A.C.,” Sou’wester, Vol. 47 (Spring 2019), pp. 113-115, http://souwester.org.
“A Hot Girl with a Bad Attitude,” Birdland Journal (Spring 2019), www.birdlandjournal.com.
“What Are You Waiting For?” (excerpt from the chapbook Orchard City), reprinted at FlashFiction.Net (December 11, 2018), http://flashfiction.net.
“White Flag,” Four Way Review, Issue 14 (Fall 2018), https://fourwayreview.com.
“Orchard City,” “Thunder,” “Vintage Binoculars,” “Drift,” and “Longcase Clock” (excerpts from the chapbook Orchard City), reprinted in The Wardrobe’s “Best Dressed” feature (November 12-16, 2018), https://sundresspublications.wordpress.com.
“Fugitive,” Wilderness House Literary Review, Vol. 13, No. 3/Issue 51 (Autumn 2018), www.whlreview.com.
“Wax,” The Forge Literary Magazine (August 27, 2018), https://forgelitmag.com.
“Savior,” Uproot: A Literary Journal, Issue 5 (Spring 2018), https://uprootmag.wordpress.com.
“Longcase Clock,” reprinted in Wigleaf with a 2 1/2 Questions interview conducted by Wigleaf intern Haley Benson (April 8, 2018), http://wigleaf.com.
“False Alarm” (Three stories: “[FALSE ALARM],” “[STOP],” “[SUPERIOR COURT]”), Star 82 Review, Issue 5.4 (December 2017), pp. 26-27 and online at www.star82review.com.
“In the Air,” The Threepenny Review, Issue 152 (Winter 2018), pp. 18-19, www.threepennyreview.com.
“Immolation,” Santa Fe Literary Review, Vol. 12 (2017), pp. 193-194 and online at www.sfcc.edu/santa-fe-literary-review/.
“Empty Nests,” Sliver of Stone Magazine, Issue 15 (October 2017), www.sliverofstonemagazine.com.
“Going in to Put Away His Laundry,” Blue Fifth Review: Blue Five Notebook Series (Summer 2017), http://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com.
“On Holiday,” Watershed Review (Spring 2017), www.watershedreview.com.
“Skin,” Valparaiso Fiction Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 5-17 and online at http://scholar.valpo.edu/vfr/.
“Adrenaline,” reprinted in Angels Flight • literary west (May 13, 2017), http://aflwmag.com.
“Shame,” Route 7 Review, Vol. 5 (2017), www.route7review.com.
“Painted Ladies,” Helen Literary Magazine, Issue 6 (Spring 2017), www.helenpresents.com.
“The Play,” Dime Show Review (April 2017), www.dimeshowreview.com.
“From a Distance, It Always Sounds Like Begging,” Random Sample Review (March 21, 2017), http://randomsamplereview.com.
“Adrenaline,” Flash Flash Click (December 6, 2016), www.flashflashclick.com.
“Small Kindness,” Superstition Review, Issue 18 (Fall 2016), http://superstitionreview.asu.edu.
“Friday Night at the Mermaid Inn,” Newfound, Vol. 7, Issue 3 (Fall 2016), http://newfound.org.
“Two Good Ears,” The Homestead Review, No. 36 (Fall 2016), http://homesteadreview.net.
“Double You,” Santa Ana River Review, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (Spring 2016), http://sarreview.ucr.edu.
“We Know You By Your Face,” A Bad Penny Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (May 2016), www.abadpennyreview.com.
“Horse Girls,” GARO, an online outpost of the Rocky Mountain Land Library (May 19, 2016), www.garostation.com.
“Tiebreakers,” Bellows Literary Review (April 6, 2016), http://bellowsamerican.com.
“Threads,” First Class Literary Magazine (March 18, 2016), https://firstclasslit.wordpress.com.
“Elise in Italy,” Waypoints, Issue 2 (March 2016), www.waypointsmag.com.
“Little Signs,” a sequence of three short stories, reprinted in a slightly different form in Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence, an anthology of flash sequences from The Marie Alexander Series, ed. by Robert Alexander, Eric Braun, and Debra Marquart (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2016), pp. 66-70.
“Where You Belong,” Nebo, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Fall 2015), pp. 42-44.
“What You See,” Lime Hawk, Issue 7 (Fall 2015), www.limehawk.org.
“5290 Bear Creek,” Wigleaf (December 1, 2015), http://wigleaf.com.
“Vintage Binoculars,” Thin Air Magazine (November 29, 2015), http://thinairmagazine.org.
“Thunder,” Gnarled Oak, Issue 5 (November 4, 2015), http://gnarledoak.org.
“Orchard City,” 100 Word Story (September 10, 2015), www.100wordstory.org.
“The Lemon Seed,” in Myth+Magic, a limited edition anthology (Sugared Water/Porkbelly Press, 2015), https://porkbellypress.wordpress.com/.
“Elise in Croatia,” LitroNY (May 31, 2015), www.litrony.com.
“Jeopardy,” Chagrin River Review, Issue 6 (Spring 2015), www.chagrinriverreview.com.
“The Miniaturist (life-sized installation, mixed media),” reprinted in Storyscape Literary Journal: Anthology Two, ed. by Hila Ratzabi (Storyscape Journal, 2015), pp. 158-164.
“Don’t Do It,” A Quiet Courage (April 17, 2015), https://aquietcourage.wordpress.com.
“Small Talk,” Fiction Southeast (February 12, 2015), http://fictionsoutheast.org.
“Gravel,” Toad, Issue 5:1 (February 2015), http://toadthejournal.com.
“Hunger,” The Blue Hour Magazine (September 24, 2014), http://thebluehourmagazine.com.
“The Red Parachute,” Bluestem Magazine (June 2014), www.bluestemmagazine.com.
“Migration,” Cape Fear Review (Summer 2014), http://capefearreview.com.
“The Miniaturist (life-sized installation, mixed media),” Storyscape Journal, Issue 12 (Spring 2014), www.storyscapejournal.com.
“The Bigger Man,” 300 Days of Sun, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 13-18.
“After the Party,” Salome Magazine (February 18, 2013), www.salomemagazine.com.
“Pick Your Own,” Salome Magazine (February 11, 2013), www.salomemagazine.com.
“The Costume Wedding,” Halfway Down the Stairs (December 2012), www.halfwaydownthestairs.net.
“Touch,” Wigleaf (September 3, 2012), http://wigleaf.com.
“A Party Like This,” The Citron Review (Summer 2012), http://thecitronreview.wordpress.com/.
“All These Questions,” Fiction365 (February 6, 2012), www.fiction365.com.
“Because I Didn’t Notice the Little Signs (Part 1),” “Allegiance (Part 2),” and “A Little Luck (Part 3),” a sequence of three short stories, 971 MENU (December 2011), www.971menu.com.
“Punch,” Halfway Down the Stairs (September 2011), www.halfwaydownthestairs.net.
“Every Sunday Is Game Night,” Salome Magazine (February 28, 2011), www.salomemagazine.com.
“Don’t Panic,” Per Contra, Issue 20 (Fall 2010), www.percontra.net.
“The Wrist Corsage,” Queen’s Feminist Review, Vol. 18 (2010), pp. 35-37.
“Flash,” apt, Issue 23 (February 2010), http://apt.aforementionedproductions.com.
“Paper Life,” Eclectic Flash, Volume 1 (January 2010), p. 43 and online at www.eclecticflash.com.
“Vasectomy,” The Northville Review (May 10, 2009), http://northvillereview.com.
“The Head in the Freezer,” Pequin (July 2008), http://pequin.org.
“Scars” (reprint), Wigleaf (January 2008), www.wigleaf.com.
“Bad News,” Clapboard House, Issue 2 (January 2008), www.clapboardjournal.com.
“Ear Mites,” Brink Magazine (October 2007), www.brinklit.com.
“Keeping Up Appearances,” Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review, Vol. 4, Issue 9 (August 2007), www.lilylitreview.com.
“Strange Men in Bars,” 42opus, Vol. 7, No. 2 (June 14, 2007), www.42opus.com.
“Anesthesia,” 971 MENU (June 2007), www.971menu.com.
“It Wasn’t Much of a Betrayal,” Boston Literary Magazine (Spring 2007), www.bostonliterarymagazine.org.
“Gambling,” in both text and audio versions, Mamaphonic (April 14, 2007), www.mamaphonic.com.
“The Seamstress,” The Rose & Thorn (Spring 2007), www.roseandthornjournal.com.
“Because Leslie Wanted to Be Britney Spears,” The Flask Review, Issue 6 (April 2007), www.freewebs.com/theflaskreview.
“Scars,” The Flash-Flood, No. 6 (January 2007), http://the-flash-flood.blogspot.com/.
“Sparks,” Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review, Vol. 3, Issue 11 (October 2006), www.lilylitreview.com.
“The Ballet Recital,” Literary Mama (March 8, 2006), www.literarymama.com.
“Defects,” Arable: A Literary Journal, No. 3 (2005), pp. 52-60.
“The Care Giver,” The Saint Ann’s Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2004), pp. 26-33.
“Heart, conditions of the,” (third runner-up in the fourth annual Out & About Short Story Contest), Out & About Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 9 (November 1998), pp. 25-29.
“Going Nowhere,” Images, Vol. 17 (Spring 1993), pp. 25-28.
Short Humor
“Literally the Most 2024 Headlines Ever,” The Haven (April 10, 2024), https://medium.com/the-haven.
“Finally, Long-Lasting Relief for Your RBF,” The Haven (March 20, 2024), https://medium.com/the-haven.
“Answers to All of the Questions Asked by the Little Girl Sitting Behind Me at Last Night’s Performance of The Marriage of Figaro,” Points in Case (January 7, 2023), https://www.pointsincase.com.
“Hello and Welcome to the Reality TV Participants of the 2022-2023 Television Season,” The Haven (August 7, 2022), https://medium.com/the-haven.
“Five Opportunities for Romance, After Too Many Episodes of Dateline and 48 Hours,” The Haven (March 28, 2022), https://medium.com/the-haven.
“How to Get a Woman in the Mood,” The Big Jewel (May 6, 2015), www.thebigjewel.com.
Poems
“Wednesday Afternoon” and “Lucky Stars,” reprinted in The Field Guide Poetry Magazine, Issue 5 (September 2023), thefieldguidemagazine.com.
“Trimming the Fat,” Rabid Oak, Issue 30 (June 2023), rabidaok.com.
“My Little Sun” and “You Were Always Behind Glass,” Salmon Creek Journal, Vol. 24 (2023), pp. 99, 150, salmoncreekjournal.org.
“Paris,” reprinted in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily (November 20, 2022), www.autumnskypoetrydaily.com.
“Night, After Rain,” "Just Before Dawn," and “Beekeeping for Beginners,” Umbrella Factory Magazine, Issue 57 (October 2022), pp. 12-16, umbrellafactorymagazine.com.
“5150” and “Encyclopedia Britannica,” Lighthouse Weekly (September 14, 2022), www.lighthouseweekly.com.
“Texas” and “Santa Barbara,” Sybil Journal (August 22, 2022), www.sybiljournal.com.
“Imperial Butterfly House, Vienna,” Mulberry Literary, Issue IV (Summer 2022), www.mulberryliterary.com.
“In the Valley” and “Dragon’s beard,” Scapegoat Review (Summer 2022), www.scapegoatreview.org.
“Velocity,” Tipton Poetry Journal, Issue 50 (Fall 2021), p. 5 and online at tiptonpoetryjournal.com.
“Sea Glass,” You Might Need to Hear This (December 20, 2021), www.youmightneedtohearthis.com.
“I Go Back in Time and Rescue My Mother,” “The Night He Broke His Collarbone,” and “Crossing from One Continent to the Next,” reprinted in Lullabies & Confessions: Poetic Explorations of Parenting Across the Lifespan, ed. by Louis Hoffman and Lisa Xochitl Vallejos (part of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Book Series, Colorado Springs, CO: University Professors Press, 2021), pp. 29-30, 109-111, 116-117, in print and e-book.
“I Go Back in Time and Rescue My Mother,” reprinted in 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, ed. by Matthew E. Silverman and Nancy Naomi Carlson (Ashland, OH: Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), pp. 29-30. The foreword for the book, written by Yehoshua November, was reprinted online on the blog for Tikkun Magazine (January 25, 2021).
“Birds of Paradise,” Oyster River Pages, Issue 4.1 (September 2020), www.oysterriverpages.com.
“American Housewife” and “Suburban Dreams,” The Broadkill Review, Vol. 14, Issue 3 (May/June 2020), www.broadkillreview.com.
“Night in the NICU” and “Wind-Up Bird,” Communion Arts Journal, Issue 11 (June 2019), https://walleahpress.com.au/communion.html.
“Probabilities,” Belletrist Magazine (April 2019), www.belletristmagazine.com.
“Vancouver-Beijing,” Poetry South, Issue 9 (2017), pp. 52-53.
“Peripheral Vision,” The Stillwater Review, Vol. 7 (2017), p. 33.
“Alternate Interpretations,” Cordella Magazine, Issue 7 (2017), www.cordella.org.
“In Transit” and “In the Meadow Next to the Rented House,” Freshwater Literary Journal (2017), pp. 25-27.
“Nourishment,” reprinted in a slightly different form in Baby Blessings, ed. by June Cotner (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2017), pp. 90-91.
“News,” Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, “Resistance” issue, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2017), p. 15, www.snapdragonjournal.com.
“Time Zones,” poem of the day, 8-West Press (December 19, 2016), https://8-westpress.com.
“Charley Horse,” Clementine Unbound (October 2016), http://clementineunbound.wordpress.com.
“Approaching the Intersection of Princess and Bath,” in the Dialogues section of Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (June 5, 2016), www.coldnoon.com.
“In the Chair Museum,” reprinted in The Doll Collection, ed. by Diane Lockward (West Caldwell, NJ: Terrapin Books, 2016), pp. 15-16.
“Refrain,” reprinted in The Literary Review (February 3, 2016), www.theliteraryreview.org.
“On the Drive Back to Durango, I Wake Up in Taos,” reprinted in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily (August 23, 2015), www.autumnskypoetrydaily.com.
“Paris,” Autumn Sky Poetry Daily (June 3, 2015), www.autumnskypoetrydaily.com.
“Crossing from One Continent to the Next,” “The Blue Room,” and “Time Loops Back on Itself,” Amygdala, Issue 1 (May 14, 2015), https://amygdalalitmag.wordpress.com.
“Visiting Hours,” Mud Season Review, Vol. 1 (March 2015), p. 96.
“More than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall from the Sky in Arkansas,” reprinted in A Year of Being Here (January 25, 2015), www.ayearofbeinghere.com.
“Any Day Now,” reprinted in A Year of Being Here (November 23, 2014), www.ayearofbeinghere.com.
“Halfway Through the Biography of Anne Sexton,” reprinted in All of Us: Sweet: The First Five Years: Poetry 2008-2013, ed. by Katherine Riegel (Sweet Publications, 2014), p. 138.
“The First Day You Were in the Psychiatric Hospital,” Glassworks Magazine, Issue 9 (Fall 2014), p. 28 and online at www.rowanglassworks.org.
“There’s Nothing,” in a short film by Nic Sebastian, featuring the song “Mesmerism” by Masonik Arts, with an audio recording by Nic Sebastian, Vimeo (June 2014), vimeo.com. Clip of the Day, Poets & Writers (July 10, 2014), www.pw.org/content/theres_nothing.
“Almost a Year After His Suicide,” in a short film by Paul Broderick, featuring the song “She Dreams in Blue” by Josh Woodward, with an audio recording by Leah Browning, Vimeo (June 2014), vimeo.com.
“Any Day Now,” “There’s Nothing,” “Almost a Year After His Suicide,” “Learning to Play Piano at Thirty,” and “Cottage,” reprinted with audio recordings by Leah Browning and Nic Sebastian, The Poetry Storehouse (June 7, 2014), poetrystorehouse.com.
“At Last, I Am Returned,” reprinted in a slightly different form on a series of bookmarks as part of the “Up to the Cottage” project from the program Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf (2014), www.poetryjumpsofftheshelf.com.
“The Night He Broke His Collarbone,” “In the Chair Museum,” “Halfway Through the Biography of Anne Sexton,” “Almost a Year After His Suicide,” and “Early Morning” (excerpts from the chapbook In the Chair Museum), reprinted in The Wardrobe’s “Best Dressed” feature (April 28-May 2, 2014), sundresspublications.wordpress.com.
“Any Day Now,” reprinted on a printable broadside with original artwork by Sarah Browning (2013).
“Early Morning,” Eunoia Review (November 15, 2013), www.eunoiareview.wordpress.com.
“The Night He Broke His Collarbone” and “On the Way Back to the Museum,” Eunoia Review (November 14, 2013), www.eunoiareview.wordpress.com.
“In the Chair Museum,” Eunoia Review (November 13, 2013), www.eunoiareview.wordpress.com.
“Last Night in the Chair Museum,” reprinted in Heron Tree One: 2013, ed. by Chris Campolo, Sandy Longhorn, and Rebecca Resinski (Heron Tree Press, 2013), p. 2.
“Any Day Now,” Dressing Room Poetry Journal, Issue 4 (June 2013), www.dressingroompoetryjournal.com.
“At the Park in Front of The Sainte Claire Hotel,” in Invention: Poems That Celebrate Who We Are and What We Do in Silicon Valley (2013).
“A Common Language,” The Literary Bohemian, Issue 17 (March 2013), www.literarybohemian.com.
“There’s Nothing,” reprinted in Extract(s): Poems & Stories, Volume One, ed. by Christopher J. Anderson and Jenn Monroe (Gloucester, MA: Eastern Point Press, 2013), p. 47.
“Sunday Afternoon at Munsinger Gardens,” in Gratitude Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose for Everyday Thankfulness, ed. by June Cotner (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2013), pp. 10-11.
“Last Night in the Chair Museum,” Heron Tree (January 13, 2013), herontree.com.
“There’s Nothing,” Extract(s) (July 17, 2012), www.dailydoseoflit.com.
“Spring Arrives Late,” All Things Girl (July/August/September 2012), www.allthingsgirl.com.
“Every Year on Your Birthday,” Eunoia Review (May 11, 2012), www.eunoiareview.wordpress.com.
“It Must Have Been the Fourth of July” and “Princess Street, 1 a.m.,” Eunoia Review (May 10, 2012), www.eunoiareview.wordpress.com.
“More than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall from the Sky in Arkansas,” Corium Magazine, Issue 9 (Spring 2012), www.coriummagazine.com.
“Halfway Through the Biography of Anne Sexton,” Sweet: A Literary Confection, Issue 4.1 (September 2011), www.sweetlit.com.
“I Go Back in Time and Rescue My Mother,” reprinted in Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, ed. by Alys Masek and Kelly Mayhew (San Diego, CA : City Works Press, 2010), pp. 303-304.
“Your Body Has Its Own Memory,” reprinted in a slightly different form on postcards from the program Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf (2009), www.poetryjumpsofftheshelf.com.
“A White Boat on a Blue, Blue Sea” and “Seagulls, So Far from the Ocean,” White Whale Review, Issue 1.2 (2009), www.whitewhalereview.com.
“She Fills the Room,” The Driftwood Review, Issue 4 (2009), www.driftwoodreview.com.
“Baking Bread,” “Instincts,” “After the Second Confinement,” and “Categorization,” Queen’s Feminist Review, Vol. 17 (2009), pp. 12, 14, 15, 18.
“Refrain” and “Dinner with Mohamoud,” The Literary Bohemian, Issue 4 (April 2009), www.literarybohemian.com.
“Spring, and the Clocks Go Back,” Blood Orange Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (April 2009), www.bloodorangereview.com.
“Making Love to the Same Man for Fifteen Years” and “Indiana at Dusk (Four Haiku),” Boston Literary Magazine (Summer 2008), www.bostonliterarymagazine.com.
“Under Construction,” reprinted in a slightly different form on a broadside from Broadsided Press (June 1, 2008), www.broadsidedpress.org.
“Moving On,” The Orange Room Review, Issue 12 (June 2008), www.freewebs.com/theorangeroomreview.
“Listening to Jazz on the Shore of Lake Michigan,” The Orange Room Review, Issue 11 (April 2008), www.freewebs.com/theorangeroomreview.
“Finding Out About the Abortion,” Queen’s Feminist Review, Vol. 16 (2008), p. 46.
“Cesarean,” Autumn Sky Poetry, No. 9 (March 2008), www.autumnskypoetry.com.
“Learning to Play Piano at Thirty,” “Baby Weight” (reprint), “Passages” (reprint), and “Surgery” (reprint), on a series of postcards from the program Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf (January 2008), www.poetryjumpsofftheshelf.com.
“Benjamin Franklin Discovers His Own Hands,” Fertile Ground, No. 16 (December 2007), p. 29.
“The Woman Who Could See Sound” (recipient of a Peer Award and the Friends Prize winner for 2007), Prairie Poetry (November 2007 and January 2008), www.prairiepoetry.org.
“Damage,” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 114, No. 3 (Fall 2007), pp. 472-473.
“Looking for What Is Lost,” Tipton Poetry Journal, Issue 7 (Fall 2007), pp. 18-19 and online at www.tiptonpoetryjournal.com.
“I Go Back in Time and Rescue My Mother,” reprinted in Family Pictures: Poems & Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones, ed. by Kwame Alexander (Washington, D.C.: Capital BookFest, 2007), pp. 103-104.
“After the Divorce, You Disappear from View,” The Foliate Oak Online Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (October 2007), www.foliateoak.uamont.edu.
“Hiding,” La Fenêtre Magazine, Number 5 (September 2007), http://la-fenetre.net.
“Things to Do,” Halfway Down the Stairs (September 2007), www.halfwaydownthestairs.net.
“The Patchwork Poem” and “On a Winter Morning in Minnesota, I Drink Tea and Think of Sarah,” in Poetry & Company: A Kingston Community Anthology, ed. by Diane Dawber (Brighton, ON: Hidden Brook Press, 2007), pp. 3, 9.
“The Poem I Should Have Written” and “Touring the Breakers Mansion,” La Fenêtre Magazine, No. 4 (July 2007), http://la-fenetre.net.
“I Go Back in Time and Rescue My Mother,” Salome Magazine (May 28, 2007), www.salomemagazine.com.
“Dry Summer,” Barnstorm, Issue 1 (Spring 2007), http://barnstormjournal.org.
“The Religion of Everyday Things,” in To Have and to Hold: Poems, Blessings, and Wishes for Newlyweds, ed. by June Cotner (New York: Center Street/Hachette Book Group USA, 2007), pp. 75-76.
“We Argue About the Aesthetics of Garbage,” “Naked,” and “New Mexico as the Heartland,” Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, Issue 4 (April 2007), www.concelebratory.blogspot.com.
“Learning to Love a Place That You Hate,” Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review, Vol. 4, Issue 5 (April 2007), www.lilylitreview.com.
“Nourishment,” reprinted in a slightly different form in Miracles of Motherhood: Prayers and Poems for a New Mother, ed. by June Cotner (New York: Center Street/Hachette Book Group USA, 2007), p. 83.
“On the Drive Back to Durango, I Wake Up in Taos,” Autumn Sky Poetry, No. 5 (March 2007), www.autumnskypoetry.com.
“Picking Cherries in the Española Valley,” Salome Magazine (January 22, 2007), www.salomemagazine.com.
“April in Minnesota,” Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (January 2007), www.lilylitreview.com.
“Skating,” Boston Literary Magazine (Fall 2006), www.bostonliterarymagazine.com.
“Under Construction,” Blood Orange Review, Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 2006), www.bloodorangereview.com.
“Morning” (reprint), Blood Orange Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2006), www.bloodorangereview.com.
“Time Stops at 1981” and “The Undiscovered Talent Brushes Her Teeth,” Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review, Vol. 3, Issue 7 (June 2006), www.lilylitreview.com.
“Sweet Talk,” Mamaphonic (May 25, 2006), www.mamaphonic.com.
“Celebrity Cut & Paste,” Studio One, Vol. 31 (2006), pp. 64-65.
“Baby Weight,” Mamaphonic (March 26, 2006), www.mamaphonic.com.
“Your Body Has Its Own Memory,” MotherVerse Magazine, Issue 3 (Winter 2006), p. 31.
“Passages” and “Annie, on a Summer Afternoon,” Studio One, Vol. 30 (2005), pp. 11-12.
“Grandma Bea Brushing Her Hair,” Studio One, Vol. 29 (2004), p. 26.
“Grandma Bea Brushing Her Hair,” abqARTS: Albuquerque’s Monthly Magazine of the Arts, Vol. 8, No. 3 (April 2004), p. 7.
“Valentine’s Day, and We Are Still Separated,” St. Cloud Unabridged, Vol. 7, No. 10 (June 2003), p. 9.
“Insomnia,” Studio One, Vol. 28 (2003), pp. 2-3.
“First Summer,” reprinted in Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage, ed. by Ginny Lowe Connors (West Hartford, CT: Grayson Books, 2003), p. 38.
“Morning,” St. Cloud Unabridged, Vol. 7, No. 5 (January 2003), p. 9.
“First Summer,” “Minor Adjustments,” and “Prelude,” Arizona Daily Sun (June 3, 1999), p. A19.
“Nourishment,” Mothering Magazine, No. 90 (September/October 1998), p. 68.
“Dance of the Damned” (winner of the Elda Wollaeger Gregory Poetry Prize, second prize), Caesura, No. 18 (Spring 1998), pp. 29-30.
“Surgery,” Caesura, No. 17 (Spring 1997), p. 9.
“Leah,” Glyphs, Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 1995), p. 14.
“Shielding,” Images, Vol. 17 (Spring 1993), p. 29.