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I am pleased to be included with Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem and other
famous writers in The Greatness of Girls, a newly published
anthology (Andrews McMeel, Oct 2001). Excerpted is a section of my book,
Fat Girl,
published with my drawings in
hardcover by Harper San Francisco. It is the story of my growing up as an overweight
child, dealing with a lifetime of food and body image issues and how I created the body
and self I wanted. Fat Girl is also a theatre piece, and
as a professional actress, I
have performed it throughout the United States and Canada.
Harper also published my children’s books, Maybe My Baby,
which was featured on
The Today Show and has sold over 70,000 copies. My second, The
Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash, won the Gold Oppenheim Toy Portfolio 2004 Best Book Award.
In addition to publishing in national magazines (Woman’s Day featured
my poetry in a
four-page color spread), my work is also found in literary journals such as
CALYX, College English,
Skylark, The Rockford Review,
Whiskey Island Review, The Writer’s Forum
and Chachalaca Poetry Review.
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Calligraphy
Fat Girl