Weave, June 2010

This writer is looking for an agent.

INTOLERABLE IMPOSITIONS
Bartleby Snopes
Coming July 2010

"She gnawed her arm off in the morning, before he woke...."
A one night stand quickly turns to regret and escape in this magic realist telling of what the "everywoman" is willing to do in order to keep her individuality. Is she willing to give up pieces of herself in the process?

"Now, that is a hardcore piece."
Stephen Segal, Editor of Weird Tales, 2009 Hugo Award Winner

"I Keep a Vine Woven Basket by the Front Door"
"Visceral and beautiful..."--Richard Radford, Author of Drug Agent USA (St. Martin's Press, 1991)

"Sublimity in Turquoise Blue," Farrago's Wainscot
“Impressive . . . compelling”--Charles Tan, Author and Editor, Bibliophile Stalker

“Stellar storytelling . . . Best of 2009”--Berrien Henderson, Author and Editor, Farrago's Wainscot

SELECTED FICTION & POETRY
“Fifty Years in Halves,” Word Riot
“Fly Fishing in Neoprene Legs,” Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
“Everything’s Better with Pesto,” Staccato
“Intolerable Impositions,” Bartleby Snopes
“Street Red,” Writer’s Bloc (Rutgers-Camden)
“Stiletto Dance,” Foundling Review
“I Keep a Vine Woven Basket by the Front Door,” A capella Zoo
“Sublimity in Turquoise Blue,” Farrago’s Wainscot
"Pomegranate Kiss," The Shine Journal
“The Peregrine and the Mermaid,” Southern Fried Weirdness
“A History of Bloody Point, St. Christopher’s Island (1626),” Whidbey Writers
“A Tale of Shodden Woe: Wolf Hunter,” Story Station (Children)

CURRENT WORK EXPERIENCE
Editor in Chief. Moon Milk Review
Contributor. Weird Tales

EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in Writing--Fiction (Spring 2011)
Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Humanities (1997)

HONORS, AWARDS AND MENTIONS
Bartleby Snopes Short Story Contest, Second Place (2010)
Editor Nominated, StorySouth’s Million Writers Award (2009)
Whidbey Writers, (July 2008)

WORKSHOPS
Dzanc Books/Barrelhouse Writing Workshop (2010)
JHU Fiction Workshop, Richard Peabody (2010)
JHU Conference on Craft, Alice McDermott (2009)
JHU Experimental Fiction Workshop, Richard Peabody (Fall 2009)
JHU Fiction Workshop, Mark Farrington (Fall 2009)
Algonkian Writer Conferences, Michael Neff (Spring 2008)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Poets and Writers, Maryland Writers Association, American Historical Association

HEKATE'S DAUGHTER
Alice in Wonderland meets The Other Boleyn Girl in this 1876 Reconstructionist adventure through the liminal places of Earth and the nymph cultures inhabiting it. Meshing history and fantasy in a crossroads of mythology, Zoë Atreid, a sixteen-year-old girl, runs away from home with a nymph named Malic after they steal her Uncle’s prized artifact--the Mask of Agamemnon. Zoë hopes to escape her Reconstructionist reality--lynchings, ethnic and gender discriminations. She hopes for a better life, but what she finds is something quite similar to the life she already knows. Malic’s world is cruel and bloody, sensual, and riddled with complications and intrigues of its own. Branding rituals, sacrifice, Titans and Nekromante, Zoë must confront dangers and look deep into her past, deep within herself and the realities before her, if she is to find her way home.

RUN GIRL RUN
This collection of short stories and photography explores the essence of being a woman, girl, lover and mother in a postfeminist, post-postmodern, avante-pop age. With an often satirical and darkly comedic look at the different socio-political techno-girdles women wear in the new millinium, Rae Bryant's short stories, flash fiction and poetry prose range from minimalist realism to magic realism with a dash of the surrealist absurd.