Happy news!

I received amazingly good news this week, as those of you on Facebook may have seen. My memoir, Face, was shortlisted for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Book Award grand prize, and won honorable mention in the memoir category.

This is a wonderful honor, and I’m so grateful to all who have contributed to the success of this book, especially Editor Ruth Thompson and designer Don Mitchell of Saddle Road Press.

And in other good news, my essay “Skin Craft," which is derived from Face, was shortlisted for the 2021 Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize and appears this month in Reed Magazine.

If you’d like to read Face, you can find it online and through your independent local bookstore. I also recommend that if you buy it online, you purchase it from bookshop.org, which supports independent bookstores.

If you have a book club and would like to read Face and talk with me about it, please reach out. I’d love to chat with you and you book friends! I’m also available to talk to groups interested in overcoming trauma. Thanks for all your support and encouragement!