"The Stand-In" Good
Housekeeping April 2006
"Stalin
Dreaming" Glimmer Train Winter
2005
"My Romance" Southwest
Review Fall 2004
"Biscuit Baby" Ms. Magazine
Spring 2004
"Will Build to Suit" Shenandoah
Winter 2003
"The Ones without Visas" Witness
Winter 2003
"The Year She Disappeared" Hotel
Amerika Spring 2003
"Meanwhile" Southwest Review
Summer 2002; O. Henry Prize Stories
2003
"Conspiracies" Story Winter
1999
"Iggy Ugly" Virginia Quarterly
Review Summer 1998
"Street of Swans" Southwest Review
Spring 1997
"The Angel of Entropy" Shenandoah
Spring 1997
"The River Upside Down" The Ohio
Review Fall 1995
"Surrounded" Ploughshares
Spring 1994
"Happiness" Virginia Quarterly
Review Spring 1993
"Dancing Fish" American Fiction
1993
"How It Is" New England Review
Fall 1992
"Lo" Green Mountains Review Spring/Summer
1992
"Nothing" broadcast
on NPR's "The Sound of Writing" 1991
Providence Journal-Bulletin January 1994;
anthologized in The Iowa Award: The Best Stories 1991-2000
"Life Class" Madison Review Spring
1990
translated as "Imaginierte Farben"
Freundin June 2000
"In Damascus" Shenandoah Fall
1990
"The Cost of Anything" Greensboro
Review Winter 1989-90 translated
as "Der Preis aller Dinge" Manuskripte Fall
1999
"Eve and Adam" Nebraska Review
Fall/Winter 1989
"Salvage" Greensboro Review
Winter 1988-89
"The Female Lives in the Body" Madison
Review Spring 1989
"Sharks" Boston Review February
1989
"Limbo" Primavera Spring
1988
"The White Hope of Cleveland" Crosscurrents:
New Work by Award Winners II Fall 1987
"Someone Else" Chicago Tribune
October 1987; anthologized in Breaking
Up Is Hard to Do Crossing Press 1994
"Urban Fishing" Oxford Magazine
Spring 1986
"It Was Humdrum" Toyon Spring
1986; anthologized in Love's Shadow Crossing
Press 1993
13 poems 1986-present:
Southern Review, Kansas Quarterly, Greensboro Review, High
Plains Literary Review, Ascent, Apalachee Quarterly, Yankee, and
elsewhere
Song lyrics to 4 tunes composed by John Harbison
Ian Fleming: A Critical Biography,
with Bruce A Rosenberg Twayne Publishers, 1989
Graphic Representation of Models in Linguistic Theory
Indiana University Press, 1976
"Dialogue that Works" The
Writer February 1992; anthologized in The
Writer's Handbook 1993
"The Role of Narrative Structure in the Transfer
of Ideas" Textual Dynamics of the Profesions, ed.
James Paradis and Charles Bazerman University of
Wisconsin Press 1991, pp. 120-44
"Choosing and Using Tense in Fiction"
The Writer October 1988; anthologized in
The Writer's Handbook, 1989
"A Voice of One's Own: Recent Short Fiction
by North American Women" Journal of the Short Story in
English/Les cahiers de la nouvelle 10 1988, 115-36
"Models of Narrative Structure"
Semiotica 64 1987, 83-97
"Linguistics and the Study of Literature"
NEH Project on Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum 1988
"Double Entendre in the Old English Riddles"
Lore and Language 3/8 1983, 39-52
"Kenning and Riddle in Old English"
Papers on Language and Literature 15 1979,
115-36
"Old English Riddle 47 as Stylistic Parody"
Papers on Language and Literature 11 1975,
227-41; reprinted in The Critical
Temper IV, ed. Martin Tucker Ungar, 1979
"The One Less Traveled by: Grammaticality and
the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins," Language and Style
8 1975, 189-210
8 other scholarly articles on language and literature,
1973-present, in Papers on Language and Literature, Journal of English
Linguistics, Papers in Linguistics, Studies in Philology, and elsewhere
1987-present, in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Ploughshares,
Boston Review, and elsewhere
Cantata 163 : "To each
one his own" by J. S. Bach (translated
from German), world premiere by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra October
16-17, 2003
Mute Phone Calls
by Ruth Zernova (translated from Russian), Rutgers University Press
1991
"Why Now?"
by Ruth Zernova (translated from Russian), Russia according to Women,
ed. Marina Ledkovsky Hermitage Press, 1991
"Old English Riddle 28"
(translated from Anglo-Saxon), College Composition and Communication
December 1989
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