There are animals in all of us. Just open your mouth.

Collection of short stories and personal essays focusing on themes of family, food and cooking, travel, Asian-American culture, and memory loss.

Novel in progress.

A collection of short stories preoccupied with subjects of loss and isolation, sexual uncertainty, intergenerational relationship, and leaving. Some characters, even minor, appear again in other stories, creating an interconnected world that spans three decades and two continents.

Whereas most research on writing in the workplace examines writing from writers' perspectives, this study focuses on readers' responses to writing. The central issue in this study is the relationship between readers' responses to writing and the goals and values of an organization. The particular focus of the study is managers' responses while reading their subordinates' reports. / Conducted over two years in a large company that develops and markets health care products, this study used a variety of qualitative methods. Observations, interviews, and the critical incident method revealed that organizational expectations for writing were closely tied to the organization's mission and its beliefs about how that mission should be accomplished. Respond-aloud protocols from two divisions of the company, Marketing and Management Information Systems, demonstrated that managers' responses while reading their subordinates' reports strongly reflected their beliefs about the particular mandates of their divisions. Furthermore, these protocols also revealed how the divisional cultures reflected the larger framework of the organization. / These findings suggest that writers must learn both the organizational and divisional goals and values in order to write reports that meet readers' expectations. Moreover, this study illustrates the importance of readers' responses to the development of theories about writing in the workplace.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-46). / v, 46 leaves, bound col. ill. 29 cm

Roberta Hickson is struggling to keep her deteriorating ranch alive but the landscape around her is in even bigger trouble. When she agrees to house three ex convicts on her property she is faced with a past she's been avoiding and the dangers of the surrounding areas approaching nearer.

The following contains two novel excerpts and two short stories completed during the years of 2011 to 2013. Rain in Paluma consists of a fictitious community based upon island life in Australia. Stroke deals with the relationship of father and son, both facing the consequences of Alzheimers disease. The Desert Keeper centers upon a young girl who stumbles across a mythological figure in the guise of a hobbled woman. The Reedlands touches on the randomness and oddity of anonymous sexual encounters, while bringing together elements of Egyptian funerary ceremony.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr College, 1910. / Vita. "Bibliography": p. [v]-vii.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.