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Poisons of war
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)
My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder,
took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death
kept the details of his life, his illness, and his ...
Mother’s Little Helper: A Memoir in Vignettes
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Mental illness debilitates the afflicted and impacts friends and family members.
The collage of scenes in this memoir reveal the ways family members developed
survival strategies and coping mechanisms to manic depression. ...
Praire Madness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Prairie Madness is a collection of fiction and non-fiction that examines the impact and power of loneliness, both lifelong and momentary. In some of this work, loneliness fuels acts of courage; in others it triggers denial ...
Assembling the Fragments: A Collection of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
Grief and grieving hovers around this essay collection, both the author's grief over
losing her mother and also what that loss meant to the other people in her life. An essay
about the tragic death of the author's uncle- ...
Picture This
(2022)
Picture This is a collection of short stories featuring a series of strong female protagonists wrestling with questions of identity and belonging. This collection seeks to explore the tension between faith and doubt, ...
Ghost Fists
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Ghosts animate the stories and essays of this collection in ways both
bodied and disembodied—as loops, as refrains, as stories that can’t be outrun.
Moving across time and space to consider collective memory in Cambodia, ...
A geography of the heart
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-18)
This collection of short fiction and creative nonfiction explores how we navigate our most
intimate and challenging personal relationships, how we use art and writing to try to
understand and articulate the most ineffable ...
You People: A Collection of Stories and Essays
(2015-08-11)
Art Monster: Stories and a Novella
(2014-08-27)
Monsters external and internal stalk the margins of the stories and novella that make up this collection. Though each selection engages in its own distinct exploration of the monstrous, the pieces hint at a shared question: ...
Of oranges and the sea
(2013)
The stories in this collection explore family and friendships. They follow characters for whom the world is not always a perfect fit, fierce in its beauty and its sadness, characters whose best intentions too often fall ...
Family traditions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
Family Traditions tells the story of young adults who have grown up as Wiccans. Because Wicca remains a new and small religion, the vast majority of its followers converted from Christianity or other faiths, and the number ...
On Both Sides - A Novel
(2020)
On August 11 and 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia was the site of a rally for Unite the Right, an Alt-Right (neo-Nazi) group. This group sought to further white nationalist ideals and to protest the proposed removal of ...
Life underwater
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This collection of short stories examines the different lives of people as they navigate
the strange and confusing nature of their daily lives. There is a particular focus on how the
monotonous can be equally as bizarre ...