SHORT STORIES  ​​

• "The Crimson Gale" (speculative fiction)— Phantasmagoria Magazine (Autumn 2023)      
• "The Girl Without Shadow (MG mystery/folktale) — Balloons Literary Journal, Issue 14 (Dec 2022 / page 23);  Audio version (Sep. 2023)
• "The Flutters" (speculative fiction)— Dream of Shadows story of the month (January 2023); BioTeenFiction Podcast: Tales From the Heart and Other Organs (January 2023)
• "Dragon Girl" (speculative fiction)— BioTeenFiction Podcast: Tales From the Heart and Other Organs (October 2022)
• "PFO-ed" (YA contemporary)—BioTeenFiction Podcast: Tales From the Heart and Other Organs (September 2022)
•  "Racing the Ghost" (spooky upper MG)—BioTeenFiction Podcast: Tales From the Heart and Other Organs (August 2022)
• "Harvest" (speculative fiction)— Dark Moments Year Three (Black Hare Press 2022); a top Dark Moments drabble of the month (November 2021).
• “Premeditated” (speculative fiction)— Wrath - The Seven Deadly Sins (Black Hare Press 2021)
• "Un-twinned", "The Gift", and "Mobile Home" (speculative fiction/horror)— Home (Ghost Orchid Press 2021)
• "Digging Through The Red Dust" (MG mystery/science fiction)— Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, Vol.6 (Dreaming Robot Press 2019).
• "How to Serve Carnivorous Plants" by Lexis Parker (speculative fiction)— Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Vol. 2 (Running Wild Press 2018); Running Wild Press Best of 2018.
• "The Maze" (MG fantasy) — featured at the 2010 Kids Euro Festival and the National Children's Museum literary workshops (representing the Embassy of France).
• "Mont Saint-Michel" (PB non-fiction) —featured at the 2010 Kids Euro Festival and the National Children's Museum literary workshops (representing the Embassy of France).
•  "The Ingredients of Life" (MG historical) — featured at the 2009 Kids Euro Festival and the National Children's Museum literary workshops (representing the Embassy of France).

          (MG = middle grade; YA = young adult; PB = picture book)
 

AWARDS / DISTINCTIONS 
 

• 2023 New York International Women Festival award winner (short script)
• Pitch War 2015 mentee under the mentoring of Roselle Kaes/Lim (Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune;  Vanessa's Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop) to work on The Girl of Salt and Feathers (historical culinary mystery).
• SDSU Writers' Conference Choice Award 2016 for The Girl of Salt and Feathers (historical mystery).

FICTION FOOD (Recipes/Food Styling /Photography)
 

• Fiction Food (monthly column)—Curiositales Magazine (13 print/digital issues): September 2018 - March 2020; 
• Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse (Shadow and Bone) / recipes from Ravka. 
• For the (unofficial) Shadow and Bone cookbook, click here (for the 2 dishes/recipes I created for Leigh Bardugo's site, click here)

      For fiction food, click here (Instagram)

VOICE OVER  

French narration — video teaser of Tori Eldridge's THE NINJA DAUGHTER (Anthony Awards Finalist Best First Novel, Lefty Award Finalist Best Debut Mystery, Macavity Award Finalist Best First Mystery, Authors on the Air 2019 Thriller Book of the Year).