Life

She grew up in West Texas

West Texas

West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semi-arid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas....

, and has lived most of her life in New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

. She graduated from the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

 with an MFA. She worked at the Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard, Washington. She lives with her husband, Mike De Lilla, a civil engineer, in Seattle, where she plays violin and sings in a folk-rock band, Landlord's Daughter.

Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine

Narrative Magazine

Narrative Magazine was founded in 2003 by former Esquire editor Tom Jenks and author, Carol Edgarian. Narrative is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age. Its online library of writing by established writers, such as T. C...

, Passages North

Passages North

Passages North is an American literary magazine published by the Northern Michigan University. Essays that have appeared in Passages North have been recognized in the anthology, The Best American Essays, on numerous occasions. The magazine was established in 1980. It sponsors the Waasmode Short...

, and Boulevard

Boulevard (magazine)

Boulevard magazine, published by St. Louis University, is an American literary magazine that publishes award-winning prose and poetry. Boulevard has been called "one of the half-dozen best literary journals" by Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman in The Philadelphia Inquirer.- Overview :Richard Burgin...

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Awards

• 2007 Narrative Prize
• 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award
• 2004 Dana Award
  Dana Award
  The Dana Award is a literary award presented in short fiction, poetry and the novel. It was founded in 1996 by literature professor and poet Mary Elizabeth Parker with the financial backing of Michael Dana. The competition is currently based in Greensboro, North Carolina...
  
  in Short Fiction
• Jack Straw Writers Program

External links

• "Shallow Waters", An Audio Reading, Narrative Magazine