I am thrilled to announce that my short story, The Cellar, is the 2021 winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. The story, which is set my native Midwest, tells the tale of a family in emotional crisis as a potential devastating tornado approaches. With these hot days and popup storms — last night the rain was so heavy that I couldn’t see more than twenty feet outside the window — I’m thinking so much about how weather figured into my childhood. The tornado sirens. The lake-effect snow storms. Such ripe material to explore! But also how the extremes we are experiencing in weather are the result of climate change.

Here is the link. The story will published in the journal’s fall issue.

https://artsandletters.gcsu.edu/23rd-annual-arts-letters-prize-winners/