Leah Browning
Leah Browning has worked as a freelance writer and editor since 1995. She recently
completed her first novel, If I Were Rachel Ellery, and is the author of Babysitting Basics
and Babysitting Rules, two books in a six-volume series for pre-teens and teens. The
complete set, published by Capstone Press in 2006, also includes Babysitting Activities
and Babysitting Skills by Wendy Ann Mattox and Babysitting Safety and Babysitting Jobs
by Barbara Mehlman. Browning is also the author of Sleepovers (from the "10 Things
You Need to Know About" series), published by Capstone in 2008.
Browning's published work includes fiction in The Saint Ann’s Review, 42opus, Literary
Mama, Mamaphonic, Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review, The Rose & Thorn, Arable:
A Literary Journal, and Out & About Magazine, with short short stories in Pequin,
Clapboard House, Brink Magazine, 971 MENU, The Flask Review, The Flash-Flood,
Wigleaf, and Boston Literary Magazine.
Her poetry has appeared in Queen's Quarterly, Tipton Poetry Journal, Autumn Sky
Poetry, Salome Magazine, Blood Orange Review, Queen's Feminist Review, Foliate Oak,
Boston Literary Magazine, Studio One, Lily, Barnstorm, Halfway Down the Stairs, La
Fenêtre Magazine, Mothering Magazine, MotherVerse Magazine, Mamaphonic, Fertile
Ground, The Orange Room Review, Prairie Poetry, Concelebratory Shoehorn Review,
abqARTS: Albuquerque’s Monthly Magazine of the Arts, St. Cloud Unabridged, and the
Arizona Daily Sun, as part of a series of postcards from the program Poetry Jumps Off
the Shelf, on a broadside from Broadsided Press, and in five anthologies: 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); Poetry & Company: A Kingston Community
Anthology, edited by Diane Dawber (Hidden Brook Press, 2007); and Family Pictures:
Poems & Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones, a coffee table book edited by
Kwame Alexander (Capital BookFest, 2007). Audio versions of some of Browning's
poems are available on her podcast.
While living in Arizona, Browning wrote more than thirty articles on assignment for the
Arizona Jewish Post. She has also written articles for Tucson Lifestyle, Tucson Parent
Magazine, Arizona Gourmet, and the Los Alamos Monitor, and essays for Wild Violet,
Working Writer, the Arizona Jewish Post, and Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2,
edited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, and Irene Dunlap (Health
Communications, 2004).
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, 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. She lived in Minnesota for four years
before moving to Canada in June of 2006.
Books
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
Articles
“JFCS program helps alcoholic connect faith, recovery,” with sidebar, Arizona Jewish
Post, Vol. 58, Issue 10 (May 17, 2002), pp. 17-18.
“Seminary-bound UA graduate made mark in Tucson community,” Arizona Jewish Post,
Vol. 58, Issue 9 (May 3, 2002), pp. 10-11.
“Local newlyweds give their all for charity,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 58, Issue 4
(February 22, 2002), pp. 19-20.
“Eye care book harks back to basic Jewish teachings,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 24 (December 21, 2001), p. 20.
“Immigrant’s father devoted life to Holocaust archive,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 20 (October 26, 2001), pp. 1, 8-9.
“Jewish High Holidays are a time to celebrate, a time to reflect,” Los Alamos Monitor
(September 14, 2001), p. 7.
“Hope Under Wraps” (profile of Happy Heads, LLC), Tucson Lifestyle, Vol. 20, No. 4
(April 2001), pp. 90-93.
“Who can they turn to?: Local rabbis find ways to refresh, renew their spirit,” Arizona
Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 7 (March 30, 2001), pp. 6-7.
“Passover: The Unbroken Chain,” Arizona Gourmet (Spring 2001), pp. 26-27.
“Violence: Community confronts pervasive issue,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 6
(March 16, 2001), pp. 1, 12-13.
“Matzah sandwiches are reminder that Passover endures,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 6 (March 16, 2001), pp. 14-15.
“CAI science program gives children jump on education,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 6 (March 16, 2001), pp. 26-27.
“The Secret to a Lasting Marriage Is. . . .” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 3 (February
2, 2001), pp. B-4, 5, 6.
“Local cooks recall newlywed repasts with a twist,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 3
(February 2, 2001), pp. B-18, 19.
“Tucsonans return from solidarity mission with renewed fervor,” Arizona Jewish Post,
Vol. 57, Issue 1 (January 5, 2001), p. 9.
“At Chanukah and all through the year, the greatest gift is your time,” and “Synagogues
encourage members’ social activism,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 24
(December 15, 2000), pp. 1, 6-7.
“AJP Chanukah artists capture holiday spirit,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 24
(December 15, 2000), p. 14.
“An etrog tree grows in Tucson,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 19 (October 6,
2000), pp. 1, 12.
“Teaching Teshuvah: Making it child’s play” (teaching concepts of sin, repentance
(teshuvah), and forgiveness to little children at Rosh Hashanah), with sidebar, Arizona
Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 18 (September 22, 2000), pp. B-13, 14, 15.
“Concert to start year on high note” (Reclaiming Shabbat kick-off event, a concert by
Craig Taubman), Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 16 (August 25, 2000), pp. 1-2.
“Tucson home team making Maccabi games a family affair,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol.
56, Issue 12 (June 9, 2000), pp. 1, 14.
“Reclaiming Shabbat, one week at a time,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 9 (April
28, 2000), pp. 1, 14-15.
“Hospice care affirms life amid process of dying,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 6
(March 17, 2000), pp 18-19.
“Conference is revelation for local survivors” (Washington, D.C. conference on post-
Holocaust Displaced Persons camps), Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 4 (February
18, 2000), p. 6, 8.
“Habitat project: Building a home, repairing the world” (Habitat for Humanity ground
blessing), Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 2 (January 21, 2000), p. 32.
“The mystery of autism: Local family says early treatment offers best hope,” with sidebar,
Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 1 (January 7, 2000), pp. 2, 17-18.
“Diverse and divine: Local artists fuel Judaica market,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 55,
Issue 24 (December 17, 1999), pp. 1, 18-19.
“Headwraps that stay are local company’s innovation,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 55,
Issue 20 (October 22, 1999), pp. 19-20.
“Creating Your Own Win-Win Situations: Four Tips for Getting Along with Your Toddler,”
Tucson Parent Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 10 (May 15, 1999), p. 7.
Essays and Reviews
“The Brick Press,” Wild Violet, Vol. 6, Issue 3 (Winter 2007), www.wildviolet.net.
“In Praise of the Form Rejection,” Working Writer, Vol. 8, No. 4 (July/August 2007), pp. 9-
10.
“Adult Teeth,” in Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2: Stories About Facing Challenges,
Realizing Dreams and Making a Difference, by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty
Hansen, and Irene Dunlap (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2004), pp.
324-326.
“Motherhood—What a feeling!” and “Motherhood gives daughter new perspective,”
Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 55, Issue 9 (April 30, 1999), pp. 16, 21.
Review of The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt, The Review, Vol. 123, No. 7
(September 27, 1996), p. B2.
Short Stories
“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), http://clapboardhouse.
wordpress.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.theroseandthornezine.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.
Poems
“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” (Reprint, 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, Volume 16 (2008), p. 46.
“Cesarean,” Autumn Sky Poetry, Number 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, Number 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, Volume 114, Number 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” (Reprint), 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,
Volume 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
(Ontario: Hidden Brook Press, 2007), pp. 3, 9.
“The Poem I Should Have Written” and “Touring the Breakers Mansion,” La Fenêtre
Magazine, Number 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), www.barnstorm.unh.edu.
“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” (Reprint, 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, Number 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” (Reprint), 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.
completed her first novel, If I Were Rachel Ellery, and is the author of Babysitting Basics
and Babysitting Rules, two books in a six-volume series for pre-teens and teens. The
complete set, published by Capstone Press in 2006, also includes Babysitting Activities
and Babysitting Skills by Wendy Ann Mattox and Babysitting Safety and Babysitting Jobs
by Barbara Mehlman. Browning is also the author of Sleepovers (from the "10 Things
You Need to Know About" series), published by Capstone in 2008.
Browning's published work includes fiction in The Saint Ann’s Review, 42opus, Literary
Mama, Mamaphonic, Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review, The Rose & Thorn, Arable:
A Literary Journal, and Out & About Magazine, with short short stories in Pequin,
Clapboard House, Brink Magazine, 971 MENU, The Flask Review, The Flash-Flood,
Wigleaf, and Boston Literary Magazine.
Her poetry has appeared in Queen's Quarterly, Tipton Poetry Journal, Autumn Sky
Poetry, Salome Magazine, Blood Orange Review, Queen's Feminist Review, Foliate Oak,
Boston Literary Magazine, Studio One, Lily, Barnstorm, Halfway Down the Stairs, La
Fenêtre Magazine, Mothering Magazine, MotherVerse Magazine, Mamaphonic, Fertile
Ground, The Orange Room Review, Prairie Poetry, Concelebratory Shoehorn Review,
abqARTS: Albuquerque’s Monthly Magazine of the Arts, St. Cloud Unabridged, and the
Arizona Daily Sun, as part of a series of postcards from the program Poetry Jumps Off
the Shelf, on a broadside from Broadsided Press, and in five anthologies: 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); Poetry & Company: A Kingston Community
Anthology, edited by Diane Dawber (Hidden Brook Press, 2007); and Family Pictures:
Poems & Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones, a coffee table book edited by
Kwame Alexander (Capital BookFest, 2007). Audio versions of some of Browning's
poems are available on her podcast.
While living in Arizona, Browning wrote more than thirty articles on assignment for the
Arizona Jewish Post. She has also written articles for Tucson Lifestyle, Tucson Parent
Magazine, Arizona Gourmet, and the Los Alamos Monitor, and essays for Wild Violet,
Working Writer, the Arizona Jewish Post, and Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2,
edited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, and Irene Dunlap (Health
Communications, 2004).
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, 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. She lived in Minnesota for four years
before moving to Canada in June of 2006.
Books
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
Articles
“JFCS program helps alcoholic connect faith, recovery,” with sidebar, Arizona Jewish
Post, Vol. 58, Issue 10 (May 17, 2002), pp. 17-18.
“Seminary-bound UA graduate made mark in Tucson community,” Arizona Jewish Post,
Vol. 58, Issue 9 (May 3, 2002), pp. 10-11.
“Local newlyweds give their all for charity,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 58, Issue 4
(February 22, 2002), pp. 19-20.
“Eye care book harks back to basic Jewish teachings,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 24 (December 21, 2001), p. 20.
“Immigrant’s father devoted life to Holocaust archive,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 20 (October 26, 2001), pp. 1, 8-9.
“Jewish High Holidays are a time to celebrate, a time to reflect,” Los Alamos Monitor
(September 14, 2001), p. 7.
“Hope Under Wraps” (profile of Happy Heads, LLC), Tucson Lifestyle, Vol. 20, No. 4
(April 2001), pp. 90-93.
“Who can they turn to?: Local rabbis find ways to refresh, renew their spirit,” Arizona
Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 7 (March 30, 2001), pp. 6-7.
“Passover: The Unbroken Chain,” Arizona Gourmet (Spring 2001), pp. 26-27.
“Violence: Community confronts pervasive issue,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 6
(March 16, 2001), pp. 1, 12-13.
“Matzah sandwiches are reminder that Passover endures,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 6 (March 16, 2001), pp. 14-15.
“CAI science program gives children jump on education,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57,
Issue 6 (March 16, 2001), pp. 26-27.
“The Secret to a Lasting Marriage Is. . . .” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 3 (February
2, 2001), pp. B-4, 5, 6.
“Local cooks recall newlywed repasts with a twist,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 57, Issue 3
(February 2, 2001), pp. B-18, 19.
“Tucsonans return from solidarity mission with renewed fervor,” Arizona Jewish Post,
Vol. 57, Issue 1 (January 5, 2001), p. 9.
“At Chanukah and all through the year, the greatest gift is your time,” and “Synagogues
encourage members’ social activism,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 24
(December 15, 2000), pp. 1, 6-7.
“AJP Chanukah artists capture holiday spirit,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 24
(December 15, 2000), p. 14.
“An etrog tree grows in Tucson,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 19 (October 6,
2000), pp. 1, 12.
“Teaching Teshuvah: Making it child’s play” (teaching concepts of sin, repentance
(teshuvah), and forgiveness to little children at Rosh Hashanah), with sidebar, Arizona
Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 18 (September 22, 2000), pp. B-13, 14, 15.
“Concert to start year on high note” (Reclaiming Shabbat kick-off event, a concert by
Craig Taubman), Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 16 (August 25, 2000), pp. 1-2.
“Tucson home team making Maccabi games a family affair,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol.
56, Issue 12 (June 9, 2000), pp. 1, 14.
“Reclaiming Shabbat, one week at a time,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 9 (April
28, 2000), pp. 1, 14-15.
“Hospice care affirms life amid process of dying,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 6
(March 17, 2000), pp 18-19.
“Conference is revelation for local survivors” (Washington, D.C. conference on post-
Holocaust Displaced Persons camps), Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 4 (February
18, 2000), p. 6, 8.
“Habitat project: Building a home, repairing the world” (Habitat for Humanity ground
blessing), Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 2 (January 21, 2000), p. 32.
“The mystery of autism: Local family says early treatment offers best hope,” with sidebar,
Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 56, Issue 1 (January 7, 2000), pp. 2, 17-18.
“Diverse and divine: Local artists fuel Judaica market,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 55,
Issue 24 (December 17, 1999), pp. 1, 18-19.
“Headwraps that stay are local company’s innovation,” Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 55,
Issue 20 (October 22, 1999), pp. 19-20.
“Creating Your Own Win-Win Situations: Four Tips for Getting Along with Your Toddler,”
Tucson Parent Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 10 (May 15, 1999), p. 7.
Essays and Reviews
“The Brick Press,” Wild Violet, Vol. 6, Issue 3 (Winter 2007), www.wildviolet.net.
“In Praise of the Form Rejection,” Working Writer, Vol. 8, No. 4 (July/August 2007), pp. 9-
10.
“Adult Teeth,” in Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2: Stories About Facing Challenges,
Realizing Dreams and Making a Difference, by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty
Hansen, and Irene Dunlap (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2004), pp.
324-326.
“Motherhood—What a feeling!” and “Motherhood gives daughter new perspective,”
Arizona Jewish Post, Vol. 55, Issue 9 (April 30, 1999), pp. 16, 21.
Review of The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt, The Review, Vol. 123, No. 7
(September 27, 1996), p. B2.
Short Stories
“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), http://clapboardhouse.
wordpress.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.theroseandthornezine.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.
Poems
“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” (Reprint, 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, Volume 16 (2008), p. 46.
“Cesarean,” Autumn Sky Poetry, Number 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, Number 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, Volume 114, Number 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” (Reprint), 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,
Volume 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
(Ontario: Hidden Brook Press, 2007), pp. 3, 9.
“The Poem I Should Have Written” and “Touring the Breakers Mansion,” La Fenêtre
Magazine, Number 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), www.barnstorm.unh.edu.
“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” (Reprint, 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, Number 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” (Reprint), 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.
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