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Select Creative Publications

screenshot of wanderlust journal story Land of Fire and Ice ... and Elves by Donna Talarico. Picture of church along a fjord in Iceland

A Prequel to My Sister’s,The Writing Disorder (Winter 2021)

For Thirty-Nine Years,” Superstition Review Issue 24 (Dec. 2019)

A Reel Life Adventure,” Susquehanna Style (July 2019) – adapted from a Lancaster Story Slam story

Land of Fire and Ice … and Elves?: What I Learned in Icelandic Elf SchoolWanderlust: A Literary Travel Journal (March 2018)

“Things That Aren’t Theirs,” LA Review (June 2017)


Select Journalism & Trade Magazine Pieces

bentley magazine cover summer 2020, big field with forest in the back; man, from a distance, in field; cover text says Growing Season: Inspiration for a Fresh Start

Rooted: The Pull of Forests, Fields & Family” (Bentley Magazine, summer 2021 – COVER STORY)

Content Marketing Crisis Mode: How Colleges Are Handling the Coronavirus” (The Content Strategist; April 2020)

“What Does an Author’s Website Need to Succeed?” (The Writer, 2018)

Recurring publications include:

  • Administrative Eyecare
  • Bentley Magazine
  • Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners (Wiley)
  • The Writer

(for dozens of additional journalism and content writing, visit my Contently portfolio)


Books I’ve Edited/Compiled

cover of getting to the truth the craft and practice of creative nonfiction

Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Books by Hippocampus, 2021, with Rae Pagliarulo)

Main: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2021)

Ink: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2021)

Dine: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2019)

Air: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2018)

Selected Memories: Five Years of Hippocampus Magazine (Books by Hippocampus, 2016)

(to see all books published by Books by Hippocampus, visit its website)


Book Projects: Contributor or Subject Matter Expert

Contributor

Interviewed as Subject Matter Expert


Memoir (in progress): Door to Door

red house in poconos donna talaricoI moved.  A lot. By age thirteen, I already had three dads and lived in more houses than years I was alive.

DOOR TO DOOR: A MEMOIR is an 80,000-word coming-of-age tale in the vein of THE GLASS CASTLE and THIS BOY’S LIFE with a hint of RUNNING WITH SCISSORS.

DOOR TO DOOR explores my childhood being raised by popular entertainers in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains and follows me through adolescence, where a geographical leap would distance me from my adoptive father.

Initial obstacles of being the chubby new seventh-grader with braces are replaced with bigger problems when my mother marries my archenemy, or as he calls himself, my “Groundation Officer.”  While my mother works around the clock, I avoid being alone with my abusive, unemployed step-dad by starting an after-school job selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door.  My success at sales and quirky teenage adventures with the newspaper crew offer an escape from the harrowing family events unpacked at each new address.

While my mother and step-dad grow a family of their own, I grow up fast on the streets of Tulsa, finding the stability, affection, and acceptance I didn’t get at home from the boys with which I work–including my irresponsible boss. As I grow into adulthood, I learn the emptiness experienced as a child is still in my heart and set off to fill it.

I am presently seeking representation for DOOR TO DOOR: A MEMOIR.

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