Click on the title to read about my NYC-noir crime novel, Nobody Wakes Up Pretty,
estimated pub date, May 29, 2012.
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California Transit received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
click here to read more about the book.

 In the photo above: Me with Kevin McCarthy at my reading at Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore. Sadly both the bookstore and the great actor (who was also Mary McCarthy's brother) are no longer with us.
 
From SARABANDE BOOKS

The Blessing Next to the Wound: A story of art, activism, and transformation with co-author Hector Aristizabal.
Hector's true story of surviving torture and civil war and drug cartels in Medellin, Colombia and how these experiences led to our creation of the play, Nightwind, which has toured the world as part of the movement to end the practice of torture and how all of it informs his and our work for social justice in the US and abroad. Read more about the book here.
From Lantern Books, available in both print and e-book editions from the publisher or your usual book-buying channels.

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Fiction you can read on-line:

From Radiant Hunger, a novel. The opening of a chapter, as it appeared in the Kenyon Review.
Radiant Hunger is available in both print and Kindle e-book editions.

Very Much Like Desire, stories. The opening of the story "Fiesta," as it appeared in Manoa.  

The Circles I Move In, stories.  Here are links to two of the stories in this collection: "Little Virgins" as it appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review in 1992 and "La Chata," originally published in the South Dakota Review, as posted on-line in Wheelhouse Magazine

"The Tangerine Quandary" was published in Santa Monica Review and can be read on-line as part of Doug Glover's wonderful literary site, Numéro Cinq. You can read it here.

The very talented Swiss author and playwright Maya Hostettler has inaugurated a cultural site called Federbar in English and German. (At the site, click on the E at the upper righthand corner if you want English.) My story, "Eydie Gorme Was a Little Spanish Girl" and my short play, "Ave Atque Vale," will be posted sometime in March 2012. You can also read some English translations of Maya's work there along with other intriguing selections. And you'll have to check out the site if you want to find out what Federbar means.

Willow Springs has posted online my story, "Sin-Tra-La" which appears in the current print issue, along with an interview. 

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