READ MY LATEST SHORT STORY IN THE DUBLIN QUARTERLY:
"What Might Happen." The librarians don’t mind you being drunk. They just don’t want you drunk and fighting. Dennis couldn’t think of anything he hated worse than getting kicked out of the library.
The library sat in a park at the edge of downtown, about three blocks from the railroad tracks, a block from the day shelter, and it was surrounded by clapboard houses, houses like a kid would draw. Dennis found comfort in the symmetry of the houses—one after another up and down the street, two windows on each side of each front door, an attic window much smaller than the others, and a pointed roof. Dennis needed symmetry—the day shelter counselor had told him that, everything neat and in its place. Symmetry....
Welcome
I'm a writer lucky enough to live in beautiful Colorado. My first book, A Short Time in Luxembourg, was published in 2004. A Short Time in Luxembourg is a powerful depiction of adult disappointments stemming from youthful decision-making. One reviewer noted: "Part Elizabeth Berg...part Nora Roberts, Macdonald deftly weaves together these two genres as she follows the trials and turmoil of Dr. Anna Haggarty, a 40-something professor in a Colorado university.
My short stories have appeared in Matter: Journal of Literature, Art, & Movement, Blue Earth Review, the Belletriste Review, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers anthologies and more. Presently, I'm studying the 19th Century Anglo-Irish writer, Maria Edgeworth. Maria Edgeworth is most famous for Castle Rackrent. However, her novels and short stories rival the best of Jane Austen, a contemporary. I'm working on an article on this fantastic, but overlooked author.
I've also completed two more novels, After the Riots and The Distilled Essence of America. After the Riots is a novel about 40-year old government secrets and one young woman's struggle between loyalty to a dying father and the responsibilities of a citizen.
Distilled Essence of America is about political loyalty and responsibility. However, Daniel O'Brien's struggles are quite whacky as he bounces between fame and disgrace; winning and losing; past and present. The Distilled Essence of America is all about elections, sex and the American way.
Check out my most recent story in Matterhorn, a local Fort Collins newspaper.
I can usually can be found writing, working, studying at the BeanCycle Coffee house in Colorado.
I'm a writer lucky enough to live in beautiful Colorado. My first book, A Short Time in Luxembourg, was published in 2004. A Short Time in Luxembourg is a powerful depiction of adult disappointments stemming from youthful decision-making. One reviewer noted: "Part Elizabeth Berg...part Nora Roberts, Macdonald deftly weaves together these two genres as she follows the trials and turmoil of Dr. Anna Haggarty, a 40-something professor in a Colorado university.
My short stories have appeared in Matter: Journal of Literature, Art, & Movement, Blue Earth Review, the Belletriste Review, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers anthologies and more. Presently, I'm studying the 19th Century Anglo-Irish writer, Maria Edgeworth. Maria Edgeworth is most famous for Castle Rackrent. However, her novels and short stories rival the best of Jane Austen, a contemporary. I'm working on an article on this fantastic, but overlooked author.
I've also completed two more novels, After the Riots and The Distilled Essence of America. After the Riots is a novel about 40-year old government secrets and one young woman's struggle between loyalty to a dying father and the responsibilities of a citizen.
Distilled Essence of America is about political loyalty and responsibility. However, Daniel O'Brien's struggles are quite whacky as he bounces between fame and disgrace; winning and losing; past and present. The Distilled Essence of America is all about elections, sex and the American way.
Check out my most recent story in Matterhorn, a local Fort Collins newspaper.
I can usually can be found writing, working, studying at the BeanCycle Coffee house in Colorado.
Bio
I grew up in Southern California, graduated with a degree in History from U.C. Berkeley, moved to Colorado for a M.A. in History, then to Seattle for my MLS. I'm a business librarian, conducting research for high tech startups and working as a counselor for the local Small Business Development Center. On a completely different front, I recently received a diploma in Irish Studies from the National University of Ireland in Galway and Regis University in Denver. My nonfiction includes Foreign Investment in the American and Canadian West 1870-1914, and the impact of public policy on literature--which circles around to long-neglected Maria Edgeworth and the 19th Irish literature question.
Please contact me if you have any questions about my writing, writing in general, or life, the universe or anything.
Please contact me if you have any questions about my writing, writing in general, or life, the universe or anything.
