My first publication, a chapbook of poems, is about losing Florida and a teacher. I had written, in graduate school, a lot of poems about growing up in Florida. Read on...

Georgia Under Water [2001]

I didn't want to write a novel. I love novels, and live in them, but I have rarely felt that they reflect the real shape of actual experience. There's never a plot in my life! (Novel Exceptions: Kafka, Faulkner, Woolf.) I wanted to write something in the messy, friendly shape of reality. Girl reality.