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Essays & Nonfiction

A collection of non-fiction works, articles, and essays.

Reflections on Belonging

Vilnius Review, April 2019

Actor War Stories

Ross Reports Television and Film, Fall 2000

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Didn't Have to do Laundry

Women on Writing, Q2, 2024 (prize winning)

Pen Names and How They Can Kill you

Nameberry, 2021, website.

Lemon Chicken Rice Soup for the Soul

MER VOX Quarterly, Winter 2020, website.

You Can't Handle the Truth

Brain-Picking Guest Blog, Becky Fine-Firesheets. January 20, 2017.

The Demons of Time Management

Brain/Child Magazine, Vol. 19, iss 2, Spring 2014.

Plague Mice

Mississippi Review, Fall 2005.

Ask a Mutha: Rituals and Hopes for the New Year

Mutha Magazine, Dec 15, 2022, website

You Know How Americans Are

Mutha Magazine, March 15, 2022, website

How to Breed Little Bookworms

Moms Don't have Time To Write, Medium, June 2, 2021, website

Read This if you have Kids

Vocal Media Journal, March 19. 2021, website.

On Belonging

Vilnius Review, April 2019, website.

J.F. Will Never Read This

Bridges Lithuanian American News Journal. October 2016, pp. 3-7.

My Art Story

National Endowment for the Arts website, 2015.

A Letter to Peace

Tiny Owl Workshop (blog; anthology forthcoming), Nov. 17, 2015.

Kidville: Voices from the Ville

(blog), April 7, 2013 - present.

The Happiest Farmer

Fathermucker (blog), September 7, 2011.

Meeting Crowe

Silence of the City (Debut), Fall 2005.

The Show Must Go On: American Theater in
Klaipeda

Lithuanian Heritage Magazine, Sept/Oct 1999.

Playing Heidi

Today, Spring, 1995.

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