a poem/found text/journal
journey back to Leeds, England
in search of my grandmother's childhood

Memoir Fragments

Orange -- a prose and photo memoir begun around Christo & Jean Claude's "The Gates" project

"Competition: A Tale of Two Friendships" published on Web del Sol's On the Nature of Literary Friendship, edited by Robert Sward

"Two New Yorks," reflections after 9/11 published on The Cortland Review website

Musings on the Personal vs. the Political, as introduction to the 9/11 focus on the PoetsUSA website

"Electing To Remain Childless", the Chicago Tribune, January 9, 2000

Pen American Center Prison Writing Contest, Introduction to selected winners in The Muse Apprentice Guild
2003-2004 winners: January 2004
2004-2005 winners: May 2005

"Looking at Photos" at the Light & Dust website

"Editorial Memories" from American Book Review, Volume 10, #1

Selected Articles

"The Hugging Bear Inn" (Chester, Vt), Southern Vermont (March 1988)

"Bears at the Inn," The Teddy Bear Review (Spring 1989)

The Poetry Renaissance (on e-chapbooks published free on the internet, from American Book Review, March-April 2004)

"Keeping the Record Straight: Writers and Their Filing Systems," Coda, 1986

Bonfire Of The Vanities (on the shifting understanding of self-publishing) American Book Review, Jan-Feb 2002

Help Wanted: Submitting Books For Review - The Formalities, Small Press Magazine, 1984

"Critiquing the Work of Older Adults" Teachers & Writers Collaborative Newsletter, May/June 1985

"Publishers Against Poets" Soho Weekly News, May 1977

Medical Writing

"Personal Journaling" Inside Ms October-December 2002

"But You Look So Good - Revisited," Inside Ms, Spring 1997

"No Pain, Much Gain: How You and Your Staff Can Avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome," Editor & Writer, July/August, 1997

Ghostwriter for:

On The Edge: The Love/Hate World of the Borderline Personality by Neil Price, MD (The Pia Press, 1989)

Life On A Rollercoaster by Ekkehard Othmer, MD and Sieglinde Othmer, PhD (The Pia Press, 1989)

Codependency, Sexuality, and Depression by William Thornton, MD (The Pia Press, 1990)

Public Relations Writing

Susan Wilson Associates, 1986-1994

See Also:
Rochelle Ratner's Backward Bush Blog