Short Fiction
“The Bookshop.” Featured in the MWA Anthology, Caption This!, Fall 2022.
An excerpt of my novel “The Fever Hut” in Embark- A Literary Journal for Novelists, July 2019.
“Prime Location.” Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. #34 Summer 2004, pp. 17-20.
“The Study Section Murders.” Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. Spring 2003, pp. 54-59.
“Bad Lungs.” The Year’s Best Writing, Writer’s Digest. March 2002.
Book Reviews
11 reviews published in JAMA, NYT Book Review, BioMedNet Magazine, and Salon.Com.
Misc. Musings
“Authenticity and Bending History,” Historical Novel Society-North America blog. September 15, 2024.
“Fifty Years Have Passed, and Little Has Changed for Connecticut’s Beaches,” The Connecticut Examiner, March 13, 2024.
“Small Histories and Small Towns,” The Connecticut Examiner, April 21, 2024.
Newspaper Columns
71 monthly pieces on infectious diseases [Pathogens & People] in The Capital newspaper, 2004-2010.
Travel Writing
Battling Through the Baltics. Travelmag. Online January 6, 2007.
The Lion of Lyon. Travelmag. Online June 13, 2003.
Siberia’s Golden Valley. Travelmag. Online May 22, 2003.
Walk like an American? MillenniumShift.Com. Online June 21, 2002.
General Science Writing
50 articles published in The Scientist, ASM News, Microbe, Nature Medicine, Washington Dispatch, Nature Biotechnology, Encyclopedia Britannica (Online), Hektoen International Journal, New England Historical Society, and others.
Prizes
“The Bookshop.” MWA Short Story Contest, Anthology, 2022.
Notable Chapter, Gutsy Great Novelist Contest, 2021
First Place, Writers Digest Annual Short Genre Fiction Contest, 2001.
Grand Prize, Fiction, Maryland Writer’s Association, 1999.
First Prize, Mystery/Thriller, Maryland Writer’s Association, 1999.
First Prize, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Maryland Writer’s Association, 1999.
Science magazine’s “Visions of the Future” Essay Winner, 1999.