Books
Diurnal
After a series of miscarriages followed by the tragic loss of her infant son, a grieving mother reaches a breaking point, and forces her son’s name and identity upon the surviving twin daughter. Thirty years later, the daughter must reconcile who she really is with the person she tried to be to soothe her troubled mother.
Scratching for Something
Scratching for Something is a collection of prose poems that explore the deepest, funniest, grittiest, and most mysterious aspects of our humanity.
Original Plays
The Snow Dome (ten-minute play)
- Public Staged Reading, Naked Angels Theatre Company and Out of The Box Theatrics, 154 Christopher Street, New York, NY (January 2024)
Awards & Fellowships
- 2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition, Quarterfinalist for My Pretty.
- 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition, Quarterfinalist for Diurnal.
- 2019 The Westchester Review Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention.
- 2002 Bingham Writing Fellowship, awarded by Columbia University.
- 2001 Electronic Literature Awards, shortlisted.
- 2001 Shuster Award, for an outstanding Master’s degree thesis for the year 2001, selected from all disciplines in the School of Arts and Sciences at Hunter College.
- 2001 Fellowship – Byrdcliffe Artist Residency
- 2000 Academy of American Poets Prize, at Hunter College.
- 1998 Forbes Foundation Grant, towards the publication of Scratching for Something.
Publications
- Penelope. Poetry. Denver Quarterly. Spring 2024
- Gretel’s Complaint. Poetry. Tar River Poetry. Spring 2024
- From the Lion’s Mouth. Fiction. The Westchester Review, Volume 10. May 2019
- The Horses. Fiction. NANO Fiction Volume 9, Number 1. 2015
- Lilypad. Reprint. Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms. Published by Persea, Edited by Alan Ziegler. 2014
- The New Disease. Fiction. Chain Issue #11, Public Forms. 2004
- The Religious Life of Objects. Nonfiction. Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. 2004
- Duck. Poetry. Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 32. 1999
- Bauble, Pumpkin, and Hex. Prose Poems. Quarto, Volume 33. 1997
Articles
- End of Paper: Electronic Book Technologies, by Kim White and Sarah Townsend
- Presented at The Changing Book conference at Iowa University, Published in “The Changing Book: Transitions in Design, Production, and Preservation.” Edited by Nancy E. Kraft and Holly Martin Huffman
- Enter the Game Factor: Putting Theory into Practice in the Design of Peer Factor, Kairos, co-author Ryan M. “Rylish” Moeller
Electronic Literature & Ephemera
Story Machine Studio
Story Machine Studio is my new tech playground where I experiment with story creation using generative AI and other emerging technologies.
The Minotaur Project
“The Minotaur Project” is a four part poem, which reimagines the mythological Minotaur as a combination of human and machine. Each canto explores the Minotaur’s struggle to craft an identity that reconciles its human and machine selves.
“Canto 1: The Cartesian Chant of Making,” is made up of three layers. The top layer consists of six couplets that fade in and out, one line at a time. The final line breaks the pattern, appearing alone. The couplets are laid out in three columns. The narrow middle column displays a stanza consisting of flickering 1s and 0s.
The second layer is a 6 x 6 grid of couplets. When the reader mouses over a grid square, the artist’s digitally altered voice reads the couplet and the square momentarily fades to reveal a third layer–a photograph of the artist’s ear combined with a computer’s circuit board. This underlying layer can only be seen while listening. When the cursor moves, the square becomes opaque and thus, the hybrid human/machine body is always partially obscured.
The New York Press Project
Prose poems published in Scratching for Something, were first published, anonymously, on the back page classified ad section of the New York Press, a free alternative weekly newspaper in New York City. The project created intimate, surreal moments in the context of the everyday.
The New Disease
Published 2003 – 2004, this fictitious online medical journal featured a collection of stories that examined the internet’s potential to become a breeding ground for psychogenic disease and misinformation.
The project was the collaborative effort of writers Devin Booth and Kim White and designer Michael McCaffery.
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