battling
the Punching Damon Knight Puppet, a What! Lunch? Enterprises
semi-original Creation
Watch this space for news of my new
story collection
SELECTED WRITING
JOURNALS
~ "Why I Wash the Dead" (essay) New Vilna Review, April
2008
~ "Money is No Object" Asimov's, Upcoming
~ "My Funny Holocaust"
Midstream, March/April 2008,
an essay on humor in Holocaust narrative and why it's
sometimes just not funny (but why it sometimes is).
~ "Number 1" Electric Velocipede, May
2008
~ "Performance Anxiety" Perigee, July 2007
~ "Frankenfetish" Flytrap, May 2007
~ "The Morning Call of Birds" Clackamas Literary Review,
May, 2006
~ "2:30" Strange Horizons
~ "Aliens Captured Me, Implanted Alien Cookies in My Brain,
used Anal
Probes, Left me Naked in a Cornfield, and All I Got was This Tee-
Shirt"
Asimov's, March, 2006
~ "Death Penalty" SciFiction December, 2003
~ "Dead Men On Vacation" Asimov's ,
February, 2005
~ "The Changeling" Lady Churchill's Rosebud
Wristlet #13
~ "Love Me" The Infinite Matrix, June, 2004
~ "Babies" The Third Alternative, issue #34,
2003
~ "Of Two Minds" Infinite Matrix, September, 2002
~ "Nothing Without a Name"Talebones, Spring, 2000
~ "Picture a World Where All Men Are Named Harry"
Quantum
Speculative Fiction, issue 2, 1998
~ "The Morning After" Asimov's, (poetry) Oct/Nov,
2000
~ "Paper Mates" Asimov's June, 2001
~ "King for a Day" Asimov's September, 1992
~ "How to Mummify Your Used Sanitary Pads"
Hysteria, Summer, 1993
~ "Thanksgiving" SciFiction
~ "The Goddess is Alive, And, Well, Living in New York
City" Asimov's, May, 1996
~ "Say Woof" Asimov's Science Fiction, July, 1998
~ "The Cost of Doing Business" Amazing Stories,
Winter, 1999
~ "Why We Wash the Dead" (essay) Parabola,
May, 2002
~ "Let Me Count the Ways" Vestal Review #9
~ "That Jellyfish Man Keeps A-Rollin" The Third
Alternative #29, 2002
~ "I Remember Marta" Lady Churchill's Rosebud
Wristlet #9
~ "Storytime" The MacGuffin, Spring, 2001
~ "Things Don't Always Turn Out Like You Plan"
Realms of Fantasy, November, 2000
~ "Finger Talk" Fugue #9, 1994
~ "The Word You Never Say" Fiction
Quarterly, March, 1998
~ "What God Takes" Lilith, Fall, 1995
~ "On Hearing Kazuhito Yamashita play Dvorak's New
World Symphony" Japanophile, 1993
~ "Clinging to a Thread" Fantasy and Science
Fiction, April, 1994
~ "Perils of Cleavage" Hysteria, Spring, 1994
~ "Magic Carpets" Realms of Fantasy,
September/October, 1995
~ "Things The Mirror Sees" Talebones #2,
January, 1996
~ "Uncle Gorby and the Baggage Ghost" Fantasy
and Science Fiction, March, 1996
~ "Mothers' Day" Realms of Fantasy,
February, 1997
~ "In His Pants" Talebones #6, January,
1997
~ "A Dark Fire, Burning From Within" Realms of
Fantasy, June, 1997
~ "Smelling of Earth, Dreaming of Sky" Asimov's,
September, 1997
~ "Haiku For Friendly Skies" Caffeine Destiny , (poetry) June,
1998
~ "Going Vampire" Realms of Fantasy,
December, 1998
ANTHOLOGIES
~ "Writing Exercises," The Writer's Guide to
Fiction Kalmbach Publishing, Fall 2007
~ "Tsuris" Logorrhea, edited by John Klima
Bantam Books, May 2007
~ "Post hoc" Interfictions: An Anthology of
Interstitial Writing, edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora
Goss, Small Beer Press, May 2007
~ "Letter to the Editor of the Tamarack Tidings"
Talking Back, edited by L. Timmel DuChamp, Aqueduct
Press, 2006
~ "Nirvana High" with Eileen Gunn, The James
Tiptree Award Anthology 2, 2005
~ "The Mutable Borders of Love" Best New Horror
# 16, edited by Stephen Jones, 2005
~ "Nature Mort" Polyphony 5 Wheatland
Press, 2005
~ "Why a Duck?" Zeppelin Adventure Stories,
Wheatland Press, 2004
~ "How I Got Away" The Mammoth Book of Tales
from the Road, Carroll & Graf, 2003
~ "Threesome" Imagination Fully Dilated,
Fairwood Press and ElectricStory.com, 2003
~ "Is That Hard Science, or Are You Just Happy to See
Me?" Witpunk: Stories with Attitude, Four Walls Eight
Windows, 2003
~ "Blind Date With the Invisible Man" Polyphony
1, Wheatland Press, 2003
~ "All My Children" Women Writing SF as
Men, Daw, 2003
~ "Grease and Sex at The King Of Chicken"
Journal of Pulse Pounding Narratives #1, 2003
~ "Finger Talk" Mota: Truth , Edited by John
Reed, Tripletree Publications, 2003
~ "My Hermit" Mota: Courage, Edited by
Karen Joy Fowler, Tripletree Publications, 2004
~ "The Cost of Doing Business" Nebula Awards
Showcase, Harcourt Brace, 2001
~ "Going Vampire"Hours of Darkness,
Scorpius Digital Publishing, 2001
~ "Those Taunted Lips" Historical Hauntings,
DAW, 2001
~ "The Sacred Society" EXTREMES, Lone Wolf
Publications, 2000
~ "The WereSlut of Avenue A" Bending The
Landscape 3, Overlook Press, May, 2001
~ "Portraits of the Shadows in The Flames"
Beyond
Lament-Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust,
Northwestern University Press, 1998
~ "Acts of Sacrifice" Health and Healing in the
Jewish Tradition-Writings from the Bible to Today, Jewish
Publication Society, 1999
~ "Cheese Bake Redux" Serve It Forth,
Warner Aspect, 1996
~ "Perils of Cleavage" Body Talk, Hysteria
Publications, 1997
~ "Those Who Know" The Fortune Teller,
DAW, 1997
~ "Beside The Well" Bending The Landscape
1, Overlook Press, 2004
~ "How To Feed Your Inner Troll" Isaac Asimov's
Christmas, Ace Books, 1997
~ "Love, Art, Hell, & The Prom" Prom Night,
DAW, 1999
~ "Chain Reaction" The Unmade Bed: 20th
Century
Erotica, Masquerade, 1998
~ "Santa's Night Out" One Evening A Year, compiled
by Stephen Stanley
and Daniel Conan Young, WordShop Publishing, 2000
~ "Chain of Command" by Leslie What and Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Chick's In
The Mail, Baen Books, October, 2000
~ "The Happy Homewrecker" 100 Crafty Little Cat
Crimes, Barnes and
Noble Books, 2000
~ "King For A Day" Bedtime Stories to Darken Your
Dreams, IFD
Publishing, 1999
~ "Designated Hater" Bedtime Stories to Darken Your
Dreams, IFD
Publishing, 1999
~ "Beware The Truancy Officer" 365 Scary Stories,
Barnes and Noble Books, 1998
~ "Silk Words" Pacifica 96, Winner Lane Literary Guild
Fiction Award
~ "How to Mummify Your Used Sanitary Pads" Hysteria,
1994, reprinted in Body Talk, Hysteria Publications,
1997
~ "Letter To The Editor" Buried Treasures, WordShop
Publishing, 1996
~ "Those Who Know" The Fortune Teller, edited by
Lawrence Schimel and
Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, 1997
~ "The Emperor's New (and Improved) Clothes" Twice
Upon a
Time, edited by Denise Little, DAW Books, 1999
BOOKS
~ Crazy Love,
Wordcraft of Oregon, July 2008
~ Olympic Games, Tachyon Publications,
2004
~ The Sweet and Sour Tongue, Wildside,
2002
AWARDS AND HONORS
~ "Living Waters" finalist Oregon Quarterly
Northwest Perspectives Contest, judged by Craig Lesley
~ "Finger Talk" nominated for a Pushcart Prize
~ "Storytime" cash award from Story
magazine, Naked Fiction Contest, 1996
~ "Brave Fireman" play winner Second Annual
Pregnant Chad New Plays Festival, NY
~ "Brave Fireman" cash award from Writer's Digest
Short Short Story Contest, 2000
~ "The Cost of Doing Business" Nebula Award for
short fiction, 1999
~ "Why I Wash the Dead" Oregon Writers Colony
award for nonfiction, 2000
~ "Silk Words" Lane Literary Guild Fiction award
judged by Floyd Skloot, 1996
~ Bending the Landscape anthology awarded
Lambda and World Fantasy Award, 1997
~ "Death Penalty" SciFiction Foundation
Award honorable mention, 2003
~ "Nirvana High" (co-authored with Eileen Gunn)
nominated for a Nebula Award, 2006
~ Slogan chosen for PDX promotion, 2005
~ Stories have received numerous Honorable
Mentions
in The Year's Best Science Fiction and The Year's Best
Fantasy & Horror
BROADCAST AND
MISCELLANEOUS
~ Radio Commentaries on 89.7 KLCC public radio,
89.7 on "The Northwest Passage"
~ Comedy writer and performer for "Radio Slice"
broadcast on KLCC
~ "The Ralph Schifberg Story," script by Leslie What,
broadcast on PBS Independent Eye
~ Contributing writer to Eugene Weekly
~ Freelance writer and documentary scriptwriter for
book length publications on aging
~ Work-for-hire web site writer for an Internet game
promoting a major feature film
~ Ghost edited book of poetry by at-risk youth
~ "Say What" a humor column, "Vital Signs" medical
column published in Eugene Weekly
~ Feature articles and essays published in Biblio,
Jewish Review, INtown Magazine
~ "Brave Fireman" Play staged by Stormy Weather
Players in Cornwall, NY
SELECTED ARTICLES ON
WRITING
~ "New Scientific Evidence Suggests: Writer's
Block Is All In Your Head! "SFWA
Bulletin, Fall, 2003
~ "Copycats" The SFWA Bulletin, Winter,
2006
~ "Is This the End?" The Writer, March,
2006
~ "Sensei Wonder" Nebula Awards 2004,
Penguin Putnam, May, 2004
~ "Transforming Life into Fiction" The Writer,
November, 2004
~ "Writing for Theme Anthologies" The Writer,
July, 2002
~ "Literary Foreplay" Speculations, April,
1998
~ "The Business of Wonder: Selling Speculative
Fiction," The Writer's Handbook 1999-2001
~ "Revising Your Story," Speculations, 1998
CRITICAL REVIEWS
~ "My Funny Holocaust: Humor in Holocaust Narrative," MFA
analytical essay, 2005
~ "Literary Translation: The Art of Remaining
Invisible," Eugene Weekly, June 16, 1994
~ "Reduced Shakespeare Company," Eugene
Weekly, January 6, 1994
~ "Stories From a Broken Heart: A Traveling Jewish
Theatre" Eugene Weekly, October 14, 1993
~ "Boot Camp for Comedians: The Second City"
Eugene Weekly, October 7, 1993
~ "Two Classics of Satirical Speculation: Carmen
Dog and The Start and the End of it All, Strange Horizons, April
30, 2001
~ "Drawn and Quartered - 'Winter Quarters' by
Howard
Waldrop" NYRSF, June, 2001
WORKSHOPS, CLASSES, LECTURES
~ "Introduction to Fiction Writing," UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Summer,
2007, Winter 2008
~ "Writing the Slipstream Story," UCLA Extension Writers' Program, January,
2007
~ "What's so Bad About Feeling Good?" Writers on the
Edge, Newport, Oregon September, 2006
~ Expository Writing: "Maladies and Marvels," Pacific
University, Spring Term, 2006
~ Writer-in-Residence, MSU, Clarion 2005, July 11-
22, 2005
~ Presenter, Reading in the Rain, Eugene, with Cai Emmons
and Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004
~ "The Physics of Comedy," Oregon Writers Colony,
2004
~ Workshop Leader, Alpha Teen Writers, Pittsburg,
July, 2004
~ Freelance Writing Instructor, LCC Adult Education,
September, 2002-2004
~ Presenter, Willamette Writers Conference, 2003-
2004
~ Panelist & Presenter, Baltimore Writers Conference,
November, 2002
~ Workshop Leader, Oregon Writers Colony Fall
Workshop, 1999
~ Presenter, South Coast Writer's Conference, 2001,
2003
~ Presenter, Willamette Writers "Turning Life into
Narrative" January, 2002
~ Presenter, Write on the Sound Conference, Everett
Washington, Fall, 2001
~ Workshop Leader, Tacoma Writers Conference,
May, 2002
~ Writer-in-Residence, MSU, Clarion, June, 2002
~ Writing Teacher for Young Writers Association,
1999-2001
~ Panelist Lane Regional Arts Conference, "Arts and
Communities," 2001
~ Panelist & Presenter, PNWA conference, 1999-2001
SELECTED READINGS
~ Pacific University with Joe Millar
~ University
of
Washington Bookstore, Seattle
~ Barnes and Noble, Eugene
~ Barnes
and Noble, East Lansing
~ The Curious Book Shop, East
Lansing
~ Oregon Union Hotel in Union, Oregon with Molly
Gloss,
Kelly Link, Bette Husted
~ Windfall Reading Series,
Eugene
~ Avid Reader, Davis,
California
~ Borderlands Books, San Francisco
~ Barnes
and Noble,
Pittsburgh
~ Powell's Books, Beaverton
~ Shelton
McMurphy House, Eugene
NOT TO MENTION...
~ MFA in Fiction Pacific
University, 2006
~ Senior Nonfiction Editor Silk Road
, a literary review, 2006-2007
~ Secretary Board of Directors, The
Clarion Foundation, The Clarion Workshop UCSD, 2005-2006
~ Board of Directors Young Writers Association,
2001-2003