Courses
Beginning Fiction Writing & Advanced Fiction Writing

Areas of Interest
American Contemporary Literature; Portuguese Literature & Luso-American Studies; Iberian & Latin American Studies

Works in Progress
Count All My Bones (story collection)
Eating (story collection)
Cuckoo Bird (novel)
The Grip of the Dog (novel)

Published Books
Saudade (St. Martin’s Press, 1994 and paperback 1996), Selection for Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers; Portuguese Edition from Edições ASA, Porto, Portugal), movie option Solo One Productions/Marlee Martlin

Mariana: 7 editions in 6 languages: English (Aliform Publishing, 2004 and HarperCollins, London, 1997); Italian (Rizzoli, 1997, one of Top 3 Books of 1998); Spanish (Emece, 1997); German (Hoffman und Campe, 1998, and paperback 1998); Portuguese, (Edições ASA, Porto, Portugal, 1998, fifth printing/bestsellers list); Greek (Psichogios Publishers, 1998).

Selected by U.S. Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998.

Fado & Other Stories: 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press); Portuguese Edition 2003 (Edições ASA, Porto, Portugal).

Short Fiction published in
Tin House, Glimmer Train, BOMB Magazine, Triquarterly, The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Five Points, The Provincetown Arts Journal, Pleiades, Kalliope, The Antioch Review, The Sun, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Gargoyle, Ninth Letter, Confrontation, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Malahat Review, Nimrod, The American Voice, Other Voices and other publications.

Chapbook O Homen Que Era Feito de Rede (Salamandra Publishers, Lisbon, Portugal, 2002).

Non-Fiction
“Songs of the Soul, Songs of the Night,” The New York Times, Sophisticated Traveler Magazine, Sept. 18, 1994

Signatures of Grace, (Dutton, 2000): Book of essays on the sacraments, in conjunction with Mary Gordon, Andre Dubus, Patricia Hampl, Ron Hansen.

“This Howling,” introduction to Novel My World is Not of This Kingdom by João de Melo, translation by Gregory Rabassa (Aliform Press, 2003).

Book reviews for The Boston Globe, including two columns for Back Pages section.

Children’s Literature
Stories for the following anthologies: A Wolf at the Door (Simon & Schuster, 2000, in fourth printing); Green Man (Viking, 2002); Swan Sister (Simon & Schuster, 2003), Faery Reel (Viking, 2004).

Awards
2002—Portuguese-American Women’s Association Woman of the Year Award.
2000—Leadership Award/Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the U.S.
1997—Drue Heinz Literature Prize
1993—National Endowment for the Arts/Fiction/individual grant

Public Service & Lectures
October, 1996: “Obsession in Portuguese Literature”—PALCUS Conference, UMass/Dartmouth
March, 1997: “Saudade”—Luso-American Education Foundation Conference, University of California, Berkeley
April, 1997: Part of Luso-American contingent invited by Vice President Gore to welcome Prime Minister Antonio Guterrez of Portugal to the U.S.
October, 1997: “The Real and Imaginary Coalesce into Fiction” at the U.S. Library of Congress at the invitation of the Hispanic Division and the Portuguese Embassy.
October, 1997: Interview/readings taped for the Hispanic Archives of the U.S. Library of Congress. First Portuguese-American to be honored with a recording, included with readings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda.
October 1997: “Magic, Spirits, and Silence,” Georgetown University
April, 1998: Speaker for Phi Beta Kappa at Rutgers University, First International Conference on the Literature of Portugal.
June, 1998: Member of six-person U.S. Presidential Delegation (Clinton) sent to Expo 98/World’s Fair, Lisbon.
July, 2002: International Conference on the Short Story, New Orleans.
April, 2004: Ran a Colloquium on Transnational Fiction, Princeton.
March, 2004: Associated Writing Programs Convention, Chicago: Panel on “Structuring Your Story Collection.”
October, 2004: International Conference on the Short Story, Madrid/Spain.
November, 2004: Seminar, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown.

Memberships
Authors Guild; PEN/America & PEN/New England; Luso-American Education Foundation; PALCUS (Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the U.S.)

Last Updated: August 30, 2004