2025 Writing Workshops and Retreats

  •  Using your voice during hard times

    Using Your Voice During Hard Times

    Join this four-week community writing experience with The HerStories Project: Participate in as many or as few of the events that interest you and that work with your schedule. Or watch the recording and join the conversation later. My session, “Truth Or Dare” is on writing about family in your essays or memoirs (March 27, 2 pm EST).

  • Darling, You're Making a Scene at Boston Writing Workshop

    March 29, 2025

    Crafting memorable scenes in our fiction and nonfiction writing

  • Salem Athenaeum, Salem, MA

    May 10, 1pm - 3pm, 2025

    Writing Dialog in Your Fiction and Nonfiction

  • Fiction Writing Retreat in Upstate New York

    July 13 - 18

    Join us at the Pyramid Lake Retreat Center.

Writing News and Publications

Writing News! My Fifth Book, Trespassers and Other Stories, coming in March 2025

I'm delighted to announce that my fifth book, "Trespassers and Other Stories" will be published early in March 2025. Join us for the book launch event at Jabberwocky Bookshop on March 8—International Women’s Day!

Meanwhile, this collection of transatlantic fiction is available for pre-order at the publishers and wherever good books are sold.

Unable to attend a live book event, but need your book signed by the author?

I can sign and mail you a bookplate to insert into the book. Get in touch.

“Ireland and Me:” A Personal Essay

Just came across this old essay of mine, “Ireland and Me” published in the Irish Times and later included in a multi-author e-book of the same title. The essay opens with a man stealing Guinness cans from an Irish Rail dining trolley. It closes with some still-relevant observations about the immigrant experience in America.