Short Memoir & Fiction

Short Memoir, Creative Non-fiction

Fox View, Montclair Neighborhood
“The Piano,” Walter Magazine
“Fox View.” 27 Views of Raleigh. Hillsborough, N.C.: Eno Publishers. Forthcoming 2013.
“The Stone Collector.” Memoir Journal 11 Nov. 2012: 37-43. (Third prize winner, annual issue)
“Wife’s Fantasy at Mid-Life.” Prime Number 13.3 Fall 2011. Web.
“Driving the Peugeot.” Blackbird 10.2 Fall 2011. Web.
“Passing the Cups.” PMS (poemmoirstory) Fall 2010: 75-69.
“Bringing in the Sheaves: On Tillie Olsen.” The Louisville Review Fall 2008: 85-92.
“My Life with Hair.” The Missouri Review Winter 2007: 8-22.
“Light Studies.” The Louisville Review No. 60 Fall 2006: 102-106.
“Green Like the Green Mamba.” High Horse. Ed. Kathleen Driskell and Sena Jeter
Naslund. Louisville: Fleur-de-Lis Press, 2005. 282-294.
“Southern Nigerian.” Southern Cultures 9.3 Fall 2003: 91-106.
“Dieting in Africa.” The Missouri Review 26.1 Nov. 2003: 146-155. (Pushcart Prize nominee.)
“Crossing to Oshun.” Growing Up Elsewhere. Spec. Issue of Jouvert 6.1-2 2001. Web.
authors ’round the south – Susan Reinhardt talks to Elaine Neil Orr

“Revelations,” Chapter XXI, A Different Sun, South Writ Large February 2013. Web.

“The Hausa Trader.” SPECS #3 Fall 2010: 49-60. (Pushcart Prize nominee)
“Tennis Lessons.” Shenandoah Winter 2008: 80-91. (Pushcart Prize nominee)
“Buffalo Gals.” Southern Cultures Spring 2008: 97-106. (New Millennium Writings, Honorable Mention for Fiction, 2007.)
“Day Lilies.” Image No. 54 Summer 2007: 55-66.
“The Hair Cut.” Only Connect. Ed. Lisa Williams Kline. Charlotte: Main Street Rag, 2007. 130-140. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][Finalist, Nimrod and Arts & Letters Short Story Contests, 2005. Third Place winner, Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Contest (Douglas Glover, final judge)]