39;s most recent books include Dora: A
Headcase, a novel, and The Chronology of Water: A Memoir. She is also the author
of three works of short fiction (Her Other Mouths, Liberty’s Excess, and Real to
Reel) and as well as a book of literary criticism, Allegories of Violence.Her
work has appeared in Ms., The Iowa Review, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago
Magazine, Fiction International, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. Her book Real to Reel
was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and she is the recipient of awards and
fellowships from Poets and Writers and Literary Arts, Inc. The Chronology of
Water won the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice 2012 and the PNBA Award 2012.
Her work appears in the anthologies Life As We Show It, Forms At War, Wreckage
of Reason. She teaches writing, literature, film, and women’s studies in Oregon.

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stories up to 5,000 words, relating to a sense of place or the natural world,
interpreted as broadly or narrowly as the author defines.

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