WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING, my personal essay about guilt and innocence, appears in the July 2014 issue of The Sun. Another essay, titled “Nursey,” was published in the Winter 2015 issue (Vol 10) of Clover, A Literary Rag and received a Pushcart Prize nomination. These essays are from a book-length manuscript about the Anthony G. Shaw child murder case for which I will be seeking a publisher. Anthony, the accused, is my nephew whom I love.
[…] Canyon that brought many people to tears, getting some advice on how to position my memoir project Mean Pieces from faculty member, poet and WWU professor Bruce Beasley, a chance to visit with Publisher Gary […]
[…] Mean Pieces is about deciding—deciding whether someone you love is guilty of the worst thing—and deciding whether to love them anyway. It’s about a child’s untimely death, his accused killer, who is my nephew, and an already splintered family that further unravels. This memoir told from multiple points of view is about the costs of attempting to avoid a predictable end. […]
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