Published Work

Novels

• Turnback Ridge: Torrey House Press, 2022
• Dead of Winter: Salt Publishing, UK (May 2016)
• The Dark Lantern: published in the U.S. and Canada in paperback with Three Rivers Press (2009); in hardback with Crown (2008); in Australia and New Zealand with Scribe (2008); and in Italy as Il Casa dei Segreti with Newton Compton (hardback 2009/paperback 2011)
• Cold Country: Duckworth, UK (2002). Also distributed in the US and Canada

Short Stories

• Forthcoming  October 2023 “Flight”: Moss Vol 8
• Forthcoming  Winter/spring 2024 “Petrified” (flash) Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
• Forthcoming  “Necessary Measures” (flash) in  Best Small Fictions Anthology 2023. Previously published in Litro Online: #FlashFriday (UK) 2nd Sept 2022.
• “If you can see the sea, the sea can see you” Scribes*MICRO*Fiction Issue 33 15 Sept 2023
• “Harvest” 365 Tomorrows (flash) 21 April 2023
• “Windfall” Raritan: A Quarterly Review fall 2022
• “Cuckoo” Pembroke Magazine #54 summer 2022 (also named one of top 50 stories in 2021 BBC National Short Story Contest)
• “Ocean City, 1949” Bayou #75 Jan 2022
• “Spoiled” The Waking: Ruminate Online 9th Feb 2021
• “Broken” 101 Words, 15 Oct 2020
• “Rasslabsia” JMWW 7th October 2020
• “Huldremose” Copper Nickel, #31 & 32, fall 2020
• “Release” New Limestone Review, 12th May, 2020
• “Mr. Sweet-Pie” Gargoyle #71, Fall 2019: Pushcart nomination
• “Timbuktu” Aurealis #120 (Chimaera Publications, Australia) May, 2019
• “Dazzle” Litro Online: #FlashFriday (UK) September 2018
• “A Grievous Burden” Crimewave 13: Bad Light, May 2018
• “Gone” Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. Ed. Grant Faulkner et al.. Outpost 19 Books, spring 2018.
• “Williamsville” The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 Ed. John Sandford. (Previously published in Alaska Quarterly Review vol. 33 nos. 1 & 2 spring/summer 2016.)
• “On Pilson Rock” Southwest Review Vol. 102 No. 1, April 2017
• “Dirt” CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women Vol. 29.1 March 2016
• “The Joke” Copper Nickel #22, March 2016
• “I’m Coming to That” Juked February 2016
• “My Promotion” Cleaver Magazine Issue No. 11 September 2015. Finalist for Queen’s Ferry Press The Best Small Fictions 2016. Guest editor: Stuart Dybek.
• Dead of Winter excerpt in Alaska Sampler 2015, Running Fox Press, March 2015
• “Beast” Gargoyle #62, February 2015
• “Revenant” Mondays are Murder @ Akashic Press website, November 2014
• “The Billet” Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction, Issue 22, summer 2014
• “Lagniappe” Los Angeles Review Issue #14, November 2013
• “Sunk” Redivider 11.1, fall/winter 2013 (nominated by Redivider for Pushcart 2013)
• “His Good Fortune” Fiction Southeast, fall 2013
• “North” Conte Vol 9 issue 1, 2013
• “A Man for Hire” Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Innovative Writing issue #19 (issue devoted to work by mentors and their mentees), summer 2013
• “Gone.” 100 Word Story, May 2013
• “The Wild” BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines series (national broadcast of story 20 July 2012, plus audio podcast, audio publication, and on-line publication of story).
• “Sourpuss.” The Brooklyn Review. Summer 2012.
• “Waltzing.” The Long Story No. 30, December 2011.
• “Instructions for Disposal of Dangerous Materials.” Used Furniture Review 7 December, 2011.
• “At Rest.” Dirty Napkin #4.4 September 2011. (Publication plus audio recording.)
• “Beset.” Bound Off: Literary Audio Podcast. September 2011. Nominated by Bound Off editors for the Million Writers Award.
• “Nothing To Be Ashamed Of.” Word Riot. June 2011.
• “The House at Hexworthy.” Bartleby Snopes June 2011.
• “A Long and Distinguished Career.” Camera Obscura Journal of Literature and Photography Vol. 3 Summer/Fall 2011.
• “A Disgrace.” Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas (spring 2011).
• “A Small Loss.” New Orphic Review, Fall 2006.
• “Heartbreak at the New Greek Café.” Hawaii Review 1994, issue 43.
• “The Bruising.” Double-Entendre. Summer 1994.
• “The Fish Corpse.” Unthank. Norwich, UK: Centre for Creative and Performing Arts, 1989.

Non-Fiction:

• forthcoming:  “Dirty Laundry” The Tusculum Review
• “A Vaster World” New World Writing, 4 April 2023
• Invited contributor for February 2023 for Wrangell Mountains Center writers’ blog. Four blog entries on writing and literature: “You, the Writer” “Marking Time” “The Power of Three” “I Don’t Remember That Chinese Restaurant”
• “New York No” Mslexia (UK) issue 88, Dec 2020
• “Swamped” The Real Story (UK), 30th Oct 2020
• “The Case of the Vampire Student” in The Chronicle of Higher Education Advice section 8 May 2013, http://chronicle.com/article/The-Case-of-the-Vampire/139099/
• “Skirmish.” Redivider: A Journal of New Literature and Art 9.2 spring 2012.
• “Translation”: (i) BLIP Magazine Summer 2011. (ii) BLIP magazine Summer 2011 (Kindle edition): BLIP Publishing, 18 August 2011 Invited contributor for May 2011 for Alaskan writers’ blog 49writers (www.49writers.blogspot.com).
• Four blog entries on writing and literature: “On Running” “The End of the Story” “Messing With Books” “Becoming Unstuck”
• “On the Chena River, January 2008.” Camas: The Nature of the West vol. 18 #3, Winter 2010.
• “Lured to the Land of the Free.” Guardian (UK) 8 Feb. 1994.
• “Coming Out of Winter.” Gulf Islands Guardian (July 1994).
• “Living in Eden.” Santa Clara Review 81.2 (1994): 168-170.

Poetry

• “So much earth.” Rosebud magazine #52, spring 2012.

Song Lyrics/Performances of Work Winter Journeys: Songs for Orchestra and Chorus. Lyrics: Gerri Brightwell, music James Michael Bicigo, Dept. of Music, University of Alaska, Fairbanks:

• Premier of “Songs of a Pioneer” sung by Danica Clark Hoffart, Chantal Boos and Sharon Braun as part of Sometimes in Winter at the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre, 21 Nov 2019, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada.
• Premier of Movement Seven, 30th September, 2007, by the Rostern Community College Choir and Saskatoon Youth Orchestra in Saskatchewan, Canada. Entry in the ASCAP Rudolph Nissan Competition, Nov. 2007.
• Premier performance of “Lost Dog” movement by Summer Music Academy Concert Choir, 12 June, 2008.
• Premier performance of “The Old Whale Road: and “Angel of Snow” movements by Summer Music Academy Concert Choir, 20 June, 2008
• Premier performance of “Holiday Memories” movement by Summer Music Academy, Academy Choir, 20 June, 2008.

Book reviews

• Review of Roy Ness’s Rutting Season (novel) in The Northern Review #46, December 2017.
• Review of Ian Burney’s Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007. Journal of British Studies, vol. 47, n. 2, April 2008.

Literary Criticism

• “Hunted Down,” “A Manchester Marriage,” “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. Facts on File, 2006.
• “The Case of the Household Spy: Public Service and Domestic Service in Hayward’s ‘The Mysterious Countess.’” CLUES: A Journal of Detection. Spring 2005.
• “Charting the Nebula: Gender, Language and Power in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.” Women & Language 18.2 (1995): 37-41.
• “Flags and Filters: The Influence of Colour in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.” The Doris Lessing Newsletter 16.1 (1994): 3+.

Composition, Second-language Acquisition, and Pedagogy

• “Small Steps: Discovering Who You Are As a Writer” Pearson: Pedagogy and Practice (website)
• “Distinguishing Ourselves: Thoughts from the Far Side of the Teaching Philosophy.” LORE, fall 2004.
• “Writing Up Research: On-line Writing Course.” Language Center (previously Center for Language and Education Technology), Asian Institute of Technology, 1998:
• with Marie-France Champagne. “The Fifth Dimension: ThaiTESOL ’98.” ThaiTESOL Newsletter 11.1 (1998): 16-19.
• “The Fallible Teacher.” IATEFL Newsletter (Oct/Nov 1997).
• “Throwaway Writing.” TESOL Matters 7.3 (1997).
• “Is It Perfect Yet?: How We Fail to Teach Writing Skills.” Selected Proceedings, The First Pan Asian Conference and 17th Annual Thai TESOL International Conference: 9-10. Jan 1997.