ESSAYS and NARRATIVES

In 1994 I began teaching a workshop in the personal narrative called Writing Women's Lives. Though I'd always considered myself a fiction writer, the students in the narrative workshops write with such honesty and heart that I feel compelled to respond in kind.

• After Dying ... (originally published in Iris,Fall '96; it's an "occasional piece," written for the 1994 opening of Leila Rae's breast cancer multimedia installation at Cal State Hayward)
• (In)Visibility (originally published in Hot Flashes,Lynne Taeszch, ed. Faber & Faber, 1995)
• Lovers Enough published with a different title in So To SpeakW '98.
• The Last Time I Saw Him ... (originally published in OneZeroOne, A Day Without Art '96
• The Dancer, also published in OneZeroOne, A Day Without Art '97