non-fiction

Nonfiction:

My features, satire, book and movie reviews, and interviews have appeared in the following publications:

• • The Charlotte Observer

  • Creative Loafing

  • Hickory Magazine

  • Charlotte’s Today’s American Woman

  • The Morganton News Herald recent articles:

  • A VirginVendor Visits te Flea Market

  • Gravy, Wild Oats, and Books in Burke County

  • Campbell Says Don't Run Off From Instant Runoff

  • An African Missionary's Year in the U.S. Ends

  • The Sex Offender Next Door

  • A Mother's Day for Rosa Lee

  • Clay And The Yellow Brick Road

  • Pete's Elvis Tree And Memories Fit For A King

  • 'I Just Thought It Would Be A Good Thing To Do'

  • An Old Tarheel Can't Get Enough Of UNC Ceremonies

  • One Energy Saving Answer Comes Up Every Morning

  • Gone But Shouldn't Be Forgotten - 1,623 mentally ill patients

  • The Klingons Next Door

Technical Writing:

Grants: Under the auspices of Burke County United Way, secured $380,000 in funding for community projects. Also wrote successful grant for the Cat’s Cradle, a local animal rights group.

Volunteer writing:

Local non-profit newsletters, such as Burke WomeNews, the newsletter of the Burke County Council on the Status of Women, which I founded and named. (Editor, mid-1980s)

South of the Garden, newsletter of the Resource Center on Women and Ministry in the South: essay

Grants: solo and co-writer for a number of successful grants funding social justice causes. (Women’s health, help for battered women.)