Publications

Author

THE WHOLE STORY HANDBOOK: USING IMAGERY TO COMPLETE THE STORY EXPERIENCE. August House: Fall, 2000. Winner: Storytelling World Gold Award, 2000, and The Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award, 2003.

WHO SAYS? ESSAYS ON PIVOTAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLING. Co-editor with Melissa Heckler of anthology by storytellers, folklorists, and anthropologists on the aesthetics and ethics of storytelling. August House, 1996. Winner: Storytelling World Honor Book 1997 and The Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award 1998!!

Essays

“Storytelling: Practice and Movement” in TEACHING ORAL TRADITIONS edited by John Miles Foley. Modern Language Association, 1998.

“Building Bridges with Stories” co-written with Melissa Heckler for THE STORYTELLING ENCYCLOPEDIA edited by Marion Sader. Oryx Press, 1997.

Stories

“The Boy with a Keg” in:

  • MORE BEST LOVED STORIES: TOLD AT THE NATIONAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL. National Storytelling Press, 1992, pages 13-16.

“Bracelets” in:

  • STORIES IN MY POCKET: TALES KIDS CAN TELL by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss. Fulcrum Publishing, 1996, pages 75-78.
  • JOINING IN: A COLLECTION OF SIXTEEN PARTICIPATION STORIES edited by Theresa Miller. Yellow Moon Press, 1988, pages 1-3.

“The Fisherman and His Wife” in:

  • BEST LOVED STORIES: TOLD AT THE NATIONAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL. National Storytelling Press, 1991, pages 168-171.
  • THEMES IN AMERICAN AND WORLD LITERATURE by Henry I. Christ. Amsco School Publication, 1998, pages 128-131.
  • THE WORLD OF LITERATURE by Henry I. Christ. Amsco School Publications, 2008, pages 168-171.

“Those Three Wishes” i:

  • READY-TO-TELL-TALES edited by David Holt and Bill Mooney. August House, 1994, pages 132-135.

“The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap” by Ruth Sawyer in:

  • STORYTELLING ART AND TECHNIQUE edited by Ellin Greene. R. R. Bowker, Third Edition, 1996, pages 65-66 and 230-236.

“The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy” by Carl Sandburg in:

  • ROOTABAGA STORIES. Harcourt, 1922, pages 322-324.

“Zusia” in:

  • AHHHH! A TRIBUTE TO BROTHER BLUE & RUTH EDMONDS HILL. Yellow Moon Press, 2003, pages 33-34.

Profiles

STORYTELLERS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF 120 ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERFORMERS WORLDWIDE by Corki Miller and Mary Ellen Snodgrass. McFarland & Co, Inc., 1998.

THE STORYTELLER’S GUIDE edited by Bill Mooney and David Holt. August House, 1996.

Periodicals

“By Heart Isn’t by Rote” in STORYTELLING MAGAZINE: vol 25/no. 3. June/July, 2013, page 5.

“Working with a Director” in STORYTELLING MAGAZINE. January/February, 2009, pages 18-19.

“A Storyteller’s Lament” in Up for Discussion in SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL. August, 2007, pages 26-27.

“Seventh Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award” in THE MUSELETTER, 2006, pages 4-5.

“Carol Birch in Ireland, Scotland, and England” in STORYTELLING MAGAZINE. March/April, 2005, pages 35-36.

“It’s All Process” in STORYTELLING MAGAZINE. November/December, 2004, pages 34-36.

Guest Editor of “Red Hot & Cool, Cool Mamas” in STORYTELLING MAGAZINE: VOL 12/NO. 3. May/June, 2000.

Contributor to “Public Domain and Copyright: Information for Storytellers” by William Wilder in STORYTELLING WORLD. November, 2000, pages 4-7.

Contributor to “Ethics, Apprenticeship, Etiquette, Courtesy and Copyright” by Susan Klein in STORYTELLING WORLD. Winter/Spring 1999, Issue 15, pages 5-23.

“Caryn’s Story” in THE LISTENING TREE: TALES FROM THE CONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER. VOL I. A TEACHER’S GUIDE FOR GRADES K-6 Connecticut Storytelling Center, 1997, pages 20-22.

“Lux Fiat…” in ECHOES 25: A BOOK OF MEMORIES FOR THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONNECTICUT STORYTELLING FESTIVAL. Connecticut Storytelling Center, 1997, page 19.

Contributor to “The Game of Love” by David Rhoden. STORYTELLING MAGAZINE: vol 4/no.1. Winter, 1992, pages 30-31.

Contributor to “3 Favorite Stories of 3 Favorite Tellers” in STORYTELLING WORLD: vol 1/ no. 2. Summer/Fall, 1992, page 19.

Contributor to “When the Camera’s Eye Is On You” by Terri Rioux in YARNSPINNER, September, 1992, pages 3-4.

“Letters” in THE NATIONAL STORYTELLING JOURNAL: vol 5/ no. 2. Spring/Summer 1988, page 2.

“Storytelling Grows Up” in Women Right Now in GLAMOUR MAGAZINE, May, 1987, page 109.

Book review of PECOS BILL by Steven Kellogg in THE FIVE OWLS: vol 1/ no. 1. September/October 1986, page 8.

“Weston Woods: A Commitment to Excellence” in TOP OF THE NEWS: vol 41/ no. 4. Summer, 1985, pages 326-332.

“Storytelling Programs for the Family” in THE NATIONAL STORYTELLING JOURNAL: vol 1/ no. 3. Summer 1984, pages 14-18.