Creative Writing

"An Act of Devotion" (one-act play). Commissioned by McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ. Staged reading at McCarter Theater January 15-23, 1994 and Horizons Theater, Washington, DC, May 16, 1994. Published in Ontario Review No. 41 Fall/Winter 1994-95, pp. 54-64 and The Best American Short Plays: 1993-1994 (New York: Applause Books, 1994, pp. 217-230).

"Sisters" (one-act play). "An Act of Devotion" and "Sisters" were performed together as a single production, "Acts of Devotion," by Horizons Theater, 1995.

Personal Essays

“A Lesson.” Three Minutes or Less: Life Lessons from America’s Greatest Writers.  New York & London: Bloomsbury, 2000, pp. 267-268.

"Connections." How We Want to Live: Seventeen Distinguished Writers on the Meaning of Progress in Their Own Lives, ed. by Susan Richards Shreve and Porter Shreve, pp. 131-135. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Memoirs

"Daddy Young and Old." Family, ed. by Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 133-148.

Interview and Translation

"Does Life Extend" (a poem by Erling Indreeide, translated from the Norwegian in cooperation with the poet). Visions #22 (1986).

"The Day of Hesitating Planets" (a poem by Erling Indreeide, translated from the Norwegian, in cooperation with the poet). Carousel March 1988, p. 3.

"Elli Alexiou: An Informal Portrait," and "They Were All to be Pitied" (a short story translated from the Greek). The Charioteer 22/23(1980/1981).141-151.

Short Story

"Rosemary for Remembrance, Pansies for Thought." Moving Out,Winter 1975, p. 29.

Poems

Poems to be included in collection of poems by anthropologists edited by Margaret Blaker. In press.

Six poems in Speaking in Tongues, ed. by Bradley R. Strahan, Donna Jo Napoli and Emily Norwood Rando. Falls Church, VA: Black Buzzard Press, 1994.

Five poems in Lingua Franca, ed. by Donna Jo Napoli and Emily Norwood Rando. Lake Bluff, Ill: Jupiter, 1989, pp. 62-68.

Three poems in Reflections: The Anthropological Muse, ed. by J. Iain Prattis. Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association, 1985, pp. 178-182.

"Hello Goodbye" in Word Formations, ed. by William Bright. San Francisco: The Corvine Press, 1985.

Eight poems in Meliglossa, ed by Donna Jo Napoli and Emily Norwood Rando. Edmonton: Linguistic Research, 1983. pp. 116-20.

"Refuge" in Discovered Tongues: Poems by Linguists, ed. by William Bright. San Francisco: Corvine Press, 1983, p. 26.

Ten poems in Linguistic Muse, ed. by Donna Jo Napoli and Emily Norwood Rando. Edmonton: Linguistic Research, 1979, pp. 97-103.