Read My Work

Publications & Productions

Watch My Reading of “Bumble Down” slips, slips, Issue I: Dispatches, May 2025

IT (1990)” HILOBROW: Scream Your Enthusiasm series, December 2024

“A Holiday Stroke” Engage, December 2023

“Once Upon a Dream Dress” The Book of Life After Death, Tolsun Books, September 2023

“How I Met Your Mother” HILOBROW: Curve Your Enthusiasm series, July 2023

“CHRISTIAN SLATER” HILOBROW: Teen Your Enthusiasm series, June 2023

“My Timeline Stops March 10, 2020” The Corona Chronicle, Ellipsis Rare Books, February 2023

“DENNY DUQUETTE” HILOBROW: Kill Your Enthusiasm series, November 2022

No, YOU Tell It! Ten-Year Anthology 2022, Palm Circle Press, September 2022

“Start with the Left-Corner Brick” HILOBROW: Blurb Your Enthusiasm series, July 2022

“The (late) Great Movie Ride” HILOBROW: Swerve Your Enthusiasm series, August 2021

“Ophelia at 30” Palm Circle Press Short Story Anthology 2021, May 2021

“Fantasy Single Woman (FSW) Needed” (Re) An Ideas Journal, October 2020

“Google Maps Basically Thinks I’m Dead” Human Parts, August 2020

“The Strength of Jean-Luc Picard,” Humungus, September 2019

All I Want is One More Meanwhile…, Midwest Premiere, Otherworld Theater, Chicago, September 2018 (Read a review)

“Construction with Benefits” Hippocampus Magazine, January 2018

“Construction with Benefits,” Boundless Tales Reading Series, October 2017

“Easter Eggs” part of the anthology From Pantyhose to Spandex, Writers on the Job Redux, Serving House Books, September 2017

“Easter Eggs” Web del Sol’s “Writers on the Job” series, April 2017

All I Want is One More Meanwhile…, PARAGON Play Festival, October 2016

The Skinhead HamletBlack Fox Literary Magazine, Summer 2016

“Always Believe, Love Santa” Hippocampus Magazine, February 2016

“Waked,” Newtown Literary, December 2015

15 Minutes of PrincessCrack the Spine Literary Magazine, October 2014

“Alas, Poor Bob!” Hypertext Magazine, April 2014

“Brick Jokes” HILOBROW, August 2013

“Klingon Diplomacy” HILOBROW: Kirk Your Enthusiasm series, August 2012

“Hundreds of Tiny People” Liars’ League NYC “Public & Private” night, July 2012

“Eye Strengthening and Other Holy Topics” Serving House Journal, Spring 2012

INTERSECTION, co-writer on the award-winning web series from Myriad Arts, 2012

Crayon Noir, Animus Theatre Company’s Play Development Series, December 2011

All I Want Is One More Meanwhile…, The Brick’s Comic Book Theater Festival, June 2011

Woman vs. Superman, Midtown International Theater Festival, July 2002

Awards & Grants

2025 Go Queens Grant, one of twenty-five $10,000 grants from Flushing Town Hall for Queens-based performing arts and culture organizations to support their mission and work in the community awarded to No, YOU Tell It!

2025 Queens Art Fund New Work Grant for individual artists from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in support of my memoir After After Prom and the forthcoming Prom Queens: Celebrating Prom Poems & Stories by Queens Writers anthology

2025 NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund awarded to No, YOU Tell It!

2024 Aurora Polaris Creative Nonfiction Award finalist for After After Prom from Trio House Press

2024–2027 Reclaim Your Day Study, Storytelling Coach working with the research team at Butler Hospital in Providence, RI, on the development and preliminary testing of a peer narrative video series highlighting the personal stories of older adults who have found healthy ways to live with chronic pain through a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

2023–2025 Queens Community Arts Grants from Flushing Town Hall awarded to No, YOU Tell It!

2022 and 2024 IndieSpace Micro Grants for Indie Theater Makers

2022 The Big Give “Pay Your People” Grant from IndieSpace awarded to No, YOU Tell It!

2021 Second Place Winner: The Corona Chronicle Essay Contest, Ellipses Rare Books

2021 City Artist Corps Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts

2019, 2020, 2022–2024 Queens Art Fund Arts Access Grants from NYFA awarded to No, YOU Tell It!

2018–2025 Madison Junior School memoir writer-in-residence grants from Madison Education Foundation

2017 Pushcart Prize Nominee

2017 Short List for Hippocampus Magazine’s Remember in November Contest

2017 SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant through the Queens Council on the Arts

2015 Short List for Hippocampus Magazine’s Remember in November Contest

2013 Nonfiction Winner of Slice Magazine’s Bridging the Gap Competition

2007 Woman vs. Superman, Nicholl Screenplay Fellowship Quarterfinalist

2002 Woman vs. Superman, “Best in Fest” in the Midtown International Theater Festival and named one of the year’s most memorable Off-Off-Broadway plays by Backstage NYC