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This is a collection of dreams, ribbons, crowns, lost and losing loves, gods, music, medicine, small burning houses, tricycles, packed bags, sought languages, and—eventually—stories.

The Fourth Boy is a collection of seven short stories and one novella. / Master of Fine Arts

Home Enough, a short story collection, is concerned with loneliness, anxiety, and a persistent desire for both contentment and transcendence. The collection explores these themes largely through a series of young female protagonists, women who are working their way towards peace in isolation, and joy in moments of connection. / Master of Fine Arts

There are now a multitude of articles published in a diversity of journals providing information about genes, proteins, pathways, and entire processes. Each article investigates particular subsets of a biological process, but to gain insight into the functioning of a system as a whole, we must computationally integrate information across multiple publications. This is especially important in problems such as modeling cross-talk in signaling networks, designing drug therapies for combinatorial selectivity, and unraveling the role of gene interactions in deleterious phenotypes, where the cost of performing combinatorial screens is exorbitant. In this thesis, we present an automated approach to biological knowledge discovery from PubMed abstracts, suitable for unraveling combinatorial relationships. It involves the systematic application of a `storytelling' algorithm followed by a series of filtering and compression operations over the mined stories. Given a start and end publication, typically with little or no overlap in content, storytelling identifies a chain of intermediate publications from one to the other, such that neighboring publications have significant content similarity. Stories discovered thus provide an argued approach to relate distant concepts through compositions of related concepts. The chains of links employed by stories are then mined to find frequently reused sub-stories, which can be compressed to yield compact templates of connections. We demonstrate a successful application of storytelling to finding combinatorial connections between biological concepts using two application case studies. / Master of Science

She Will Be the Last of Us is a collection of closely interwoven short stories narrated by four generations of Mexican women. They are all members of the fictitious Belmonte family, once a stronghold in Mexican politics and high society, now nearing extinction. The collection explores the idea of legacy and repeated history, and what matters and remains when a family line dies out. Other thematic focuses include notions of class, nationalism, womanhood, and motherhood in Mexico and on the US-Mexico border. / MFA