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NOVELS
The Bride of Manhattan (90,000–100,000 words)
Genre: Contemporary/Urban/Women’s Issues
A twenty-eight-year-old native New Yorker returns home from Santa Fe after a failed marriage to begin her love life again, and discovers her true love is Manhattan itself.
Contact: Amberly Finarelli, Andrea Hurst Literary Management
The Exchange (90,000–100,000 words)
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Contemporary/Urban/Women’s Issues
The love-starved, Bollywood-obsessed personal assistant to a movie star joins an underground dating service but falls for the ex-lover of the hardened businesswoman who created the service just to keep other women away from him.
Leaving Time (50,000–70,000 words)
Genre: Young Adult/Experimental
In 1986, a seventeen-year-old misfit in Upstate New York gets a scholarship to UCLA School of the Arts, but rejects it until her suicidal boyfriend impulsively runs away to Los Angeles. She uses the college as an excuse to find him, but discovers herself instead when she turns to her art as a way to deal with his sudden and violent death.
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SHORT STORIES
“Akeli”
An Indian-American woman travels for the first time to her dying father’s hometown of Bombay only to find that he has arranged her marriage...to the stranger she just met in a café...[more]
Published: India Currents Magazine (2004 Katha: Indian American Fiction Contest Winner, Second Place) [Press release]
“Optimo Saliva”
An actress on a theater tour contemplates the affair she is having with her leading man while he is out on the town with a woman who has just seen their production.
Published: Nightshade Nightstand Reader (Nightshade Press)
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POETRY
Honors
1996 Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Publications (incomplete listing)
“Movie Men,” in DesiClub (Winter 2003).
“Weight,” in Monadnak Review (2001)
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“On Your Roof I Describe Her Breasts Because You Forgot Your Glasses,” Footsteps (Fall 2001).
“What It Means To Touch Her” and “I Came Here To Grade Papers,” The English Record (Vol. 50 #1).
“Four Dancing Haiku,” Wish Women (Summer 1996).
“1974,” The Santa Fe Sun (August 1995).
“Flying,” Jeopardy Magazine (Spring 1995).
“Hatchlings,” Lynx Eye (January 1995).
“Eating the Bread We Bought” The Poet's Attic (1995).
“Transference,” Amelia (Issue # 26, 1994).
“Spring,” Potato Eyes (Issue #10, 1994).
“For Mozart,” The Beacon Street Review (Spring 1993).
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