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Fiction, creative nonfiction.

Contemporary American literature; science and literature; religion and literature; multicultural U.S. literature; Jewish American literature; the theory and practice of teaching creative writing.

Creative Composition (with Jeremiah Chamberlin and Natalie Bakopoulos, Cengage/2013); Breaking and Entering (Four Way Books, 2012); Creative Nonfiction:  Form, Content, and Style (Cengage/Wadsworth, 2009); In the Mouth, Stories and Novellas (Four Way Books, 2008); Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull (University of New Mexico Press, 2002); Paradise, New York (Temple University Press, 1998); The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories (Delphinium Books, 1991); Whisper Whisper Jesse: A Children's Book About AIDS (Advantage/Aurora, 1992); stories and essays in journals and anthologies such as Best American Short Stories 2007, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Agni, Literary Review, Puschart Prize XVI and XX, God: Stories, The New Generation; Between Mothers and Sons, Birth: A Literary Anthology, the Writers Chronicle, Sojourner, The Boston Globe, Michigan Magazine, Kaleidoscope, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Jewish Forward, Life Magazine, etc.