Degree awarded: M.A. School of International Service. American University
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Homebound is a collection of short stories linked by the fictional city of River Ridge, Virginia and the surrounding area. The six stories deal with the effects of leaving River Ridge or coming back after living in the wider world. The stories deal w...
LIKE WATER POURED OUT is an original work of narrative nonfiction by Patrick Marion Bradley. Presented in vignette chapters, the piece follows the daily lives and struggles of monks and nuns in the Missionaries of the Poor--a Catholic order of brothe...
Country of Glass is a collection of poems that explores the concept of precariousness as it applies to bodies, families, countries, and whole societies. Using family history as well as historical events, the collection moves through questions about i...
The Promised Land: Stories is an original work of short fiction.
Raj is a PhD candidate who has turned 30 with no signs of graduating in sight. Surabhi is a disillusioned copy writer who runs an underground marriage simulation service on the side. The world they inhabit used to be a recognizable metropolitan in a ...
Dodging Brooklyn is a work of original fiction. It is a full-length novel set in 1950's Brooklynthat follows the life of David Resnik, the only son of Jewish immigrants. The novel examines several themes including family; the definition of a hero; an...
Blood in My Shoes is about the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we tell to others. Through the lens of the tales we all know by heart--Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Rumplestiltskin, and more--these poems explore the chal...
Girls in Love is an original work of short fiction. The five stories of the collection chronicle the lives of girls and women dealing with banal issues in extraordinary ways. From two murderous teenagers to the ghost of an opinionated grandmother, fr...
Unit A147 is an original work of speculative fiction that explores what it means to be human. Portraying a world burgeoning on the edge of the introduction of cyborgs into the robotics field, Unit A147 examines how a woman deals with life after death...