[citation needed] Her works include many critically acclaimed short stories.
[citation needed] Her stories were anthologized and published in magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Night.
[citation needed] She won first prize in the American Short Story Contest in 1980, and was a three-time finalist for the O. Henry Awards.
[citation needed] In 1992, she published a book called Marine Life, which was also translated into German [1] which was a finalist for the 1993 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
[2] In 2000, Marine Life was adapted into a film starring Cybill Shepherd and Peter Outerbridge.