Published Work

Short Fiction
            2024    “All We Thought We Knew,” The Waxed Lemon
            2022    “Grandma Tova,” Jewish Fiction
                        https://jewishfiction.com/story/grandma-tova/
            2017    “On the Canal,” Dark Wood
            2010    “Some Trees,” Soundings East
            2009    “The Parakeet,” Madison Review
            2008    “Where Johannes Brahms Was Born,” Red Cedar Review
                        “Salt,” Raritan
                        “Feliz Compleaños,” Turnrow
            2007    “A Windy Place,” Raritan
            2006    “Sweet Sixteen,” River Styx
                        “Falling,” Michigan Quarterly Review
                        “In the U-Bahn,” Confrontation
            2005    “Lovers in a Damp Climate,” Dogwood
                        “Birthday Boy,” Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly
                        “Alexandra and the Love of Black Men,” Divide
                        “Boy in a Drum,” Pacific Review
            2003    “Ride,” GSU Review
            2001    “Fortress,” Confrontation
            2000     “Going Very Straight,” GSU Review
                        “Cold Birth,” The James White Review
                        “Nevada,” Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly
                        “Passing Through,” reprinted in Best American Gay Fiction
                        “The Swimming Pool,” New Letters
                        “Passing Through,” Modern Words
            1993    “Rescue,” Neue Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten
           
        
Creative Nonfiction and Journalism
            2024   “Stairs, Scars and Bicycles,” Nude Bruce Review
                        https://nudebrucereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/issue-14-final-v2.pdf   (p. 157)
            2021   “The Word of God,” Jewish Writing Project
                        https://jewishwritingproject.com/2021/12/20/the-word-of-god/
            2020    “My COVID Rosenberg Mask,” Brooklyn Rail
                        https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/field-notes/My-Rosenberg-COVID-19-Mask/
                        “Life and Death in Chinatown,” Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood
                        https://mrbellersneighborhood.com/2020/11/life-death-chinatown
                        “God and Man in 5781,” Jewish Journal
                        https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/325469/god-and-man-in-5781/
            2016    “How the Supreme Court Sanctified Gay Sex,” Gay and Lesbian Review
                        https://glreview.org/article/how-the-supreme-court-sanctified-gay-sex/
            2006    “The Gridler’s Tale,” New York Times
                        https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/nyregion/thecity/the-gridlers-tale.html
            2003    “In the Synagogue,” Poetica
                        “Positive Talmud-Studien,” Aktuell
                        “Denken an AIDS am Geburtstag der Welt,” Aktuell
                        “Berlin in Winter,” Without Force or Lies

Novels
            2001    Summer’s House, St. Martin’s Press, New York
                        Waterboys (German translation), Edition Q, Berlin
                        Quaspeck, Mercury House, San Francisco
            1989    Waterboys, Mercury House, San Francisco
 
Theater
            2005    Happy Family, public reading, Urban Stages, NY
 
Awards/Honors
            2013    Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, Finalist
            2011    Residency, The MacDowell Colony
            2009    Residency, Blue Mountain Center
            2008    Flannery O’Connor Prize in Fiction, Finalist
            2007    Residency, The MacDowell Colony
            2004    Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
            2000    Vogelstein Foundation Grant           
                        GSU Review Writing Awards, Finalist
                        Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
            1998    Residency, The Ragdale Foundation
                        New Millennium Writing Awards, Semi-Finalist
            1997    Green River Writers Award in Fiction, First Prize
                        Residency, Yaddo
                        New Letters Award in Fiction, First Prize
            1992    City of Berlin Stipend for Literature
            1984    Goodman Loan Fund Grant
            1983    National Arts Club Award