Jessica Barksdale Inclán

Publication and Writing Credits

Her Daughter's Eyes, under working title Of This Body, semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, 1999

Her Daughter's Eyes, Penguin Putnam Publishing--Accent Imprint--May 8, 2001. Editor Carolyn Nichols.

Her Daughter's Eyes, Hawthorne Press (large type print), August 2001.

Her Daughter's Eyes (La Nina de sus Ojos) June 2002, Urano, Umbriel Imprint, Spanish Publisher, translated by Rocio Martinez Ranedo.

Her Daughter's Eyes (In haar ogen) The House of Books, 2002, Dutch Publisher, translated by Karina Zegers  de   Beijul.

Her Daughter’s Eyes (Mijn geheime dochter) The House of Books, 2003, DutchPublisher, translated by Karina       Zegers de Beijul.

Her Daughter's Eyes, final nominee, Best Books for Young Adults 2001, Best Paperbacks 2002, YALSA, part of the ALA.

Her Daughter’s Eyes, mass market edition, April 2003, Penguin Putnam Publishing, Accent Imprint.

The Matter of Grace, May 7, 2002 , Penguin Putnam Publishing, Accent Imprint. Editor Carolyn Nichols

The Matter of Grace, mass market edition, May 2004, Penguin Putnam Publishing, Accent Imprint.

The Matter of Grace, reissue for Penguin Putnam’s Reader’s Club of America, October 2004.

When You Go Away, April 1, 2003 Penguin Putnam Publishing--Accent Imprint.  Editor Ellen Edwards

When You Go Away, large type edition, August 2004, Center Point Large Print.

When You Go Away, forthcoming in mass market edition, March 2005, Penguin Putnam Publishing, Accent Imprint

One Small Thing, April 6, 2004 , Penguin Putnam Publishing, Accent Imprint, April 2004.  Editor Ellen Edwards

One Small Thing, forthcoming from The House of Books, 2005, Dutch Publisher.

One Small Thing, forthcoming from Ediciones B, SA, 2005, Spanish Publisher.

Walking With Her Daughter, forthcoming from Penguin Putnam Publishing, Accent Imprint, April 2005.  Editor Ellen Edwards

Walking With Her Daughter, forthcoming in large type edition, 2005, Center Point Large Print

The August Garden, (working title), in progress.

Where I am Now, (working title) in progress.

Where I am Now, (working title), first fifty pages, semi-finalist Dana Awards 2002.

Where I am Now, (working title), Second Prize, First Chapter-Novel, Focus on Writers Contest, 2002.

Short Fiction

Animal (fiction), Between Sheets, #17, CSUS Magazine, Spring/Summer 1983.

Would See Everything (fiction), Honorable Mention, Authors in the Park Short Story Contest, 1994. Published with other winners in Fine Print, 1994.

Chores (fiction), Razorslit #1, Fall 1995.

Spaces Random and Intentional (Fiction), Honorable Mention, Explorations, 1996.

This Time, Yes (fiction), The West Wind Review, 18th Anthology, 1999.

Jimmy, is that you? (fiction), The Prairie Star, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 1999

Pulling Toward Heaven (fiction), Writing on the Edge, True Stories, Special Double Issue, Volume 10, Number 2 and Volume 11, Number 1, Spring-Fall 2000, edited by Peter Elbow

Women Are Different (fiction), Argestes, Volume 3, Fall 2000.

Galactic Laughter (fiction), The Rejected Quarterly, Volume 2, Number 3, Issue #7, Fall 2000.

Open Eyes (fiction), El Andar, Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 2001. Available also www.elandar.com. First place winner in the El Andar Writing Awards, judged by Sandra Cisneros.

Galactic Laughter (fiction), New Stone Circle, number nine, 2002.

Earrings (fiction), finalist in Glimmer Train’s Summer 2002 Fiction Open

Shore (fiction), Top 25 Finalist in Glimmer Train’s Summer 2003 Very Short Fiction Award.

The Church of Guilt (fiction), finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fall 2004 Fiction Open.

Poetry

Free Fall (poetry), Between Sheets, #16, Fall 1982.

To Finding Something in Nothing (poetry), Piedmont Literary Review, Vol. 18, #2, 1983.

Nostalgia (poetry), Between Sheets, #17, Spring/Summer 1983.

A Dream for My Sister (poetry), Dream Machinery, Issue #3, November 1994.

I Deny Myself My Mother (poetry), Honorable Mention, Benicia Herald Poetry Contest, Published Benicia Herald, October 4, 1994.

The Girl Inside (poetry), Fat!So?, issue #2, 1994.

When They Do Not Listen (poetry), inside english, vol. xxii, no. 2, December 1994.

Doppelganger (poetry), Earth’s Daughters, #45, 1995.

Laughing Together (poetry), Benicia Bay Review 1995.

Five Days in a Coma (poetry), Free Lunch, #16, 1995.

Quick Change (poetry), Fat!So?, Issue #3, 1995.

The Girl Inside (poetry), Hotwired Electronic Magazine, 1995.

What I Want to Tell My Student (poetry) The Forum, 1996.

Solstice and Transmogrification (poetry), finalists, The Salt Hill Journal’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. Solstice published The Salt Hill Journal, #2, 1996.

When We Almost Drowned (poetry), First Place, Across the River Writers’ Roundtable Contest. Published in hardback anthology, Death and Donuts, 1997, Manfit Press.

When I am Scared of Teaching (poetry), The Forum, 1997.

Revision and When We Almost Drowned (poetry), Suisun Valley Review, vol. 17, no.1, 1997.

All The Hundreds More and But You Put on Your Work Clothes (poetry), Suisun Valley Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998.

What He Left Behind (poetry), Honorable Mention, Focus on Writers, Sacramento Libraries’ Poetry Contest, 1998.

Talking About Dying While Naked (poetry), Coracle #6/7, Winter, 1998.

The Door is a Jar (poetry), Crack, Number Two, 1999.

Wondering About Cows (poetry), semi-finalist, Atlanta Review, Poetry 1999 Contest.

When I am Scared of Teaching, (poetry) Paths of Learning, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1999

This Lovely Country (poetry), Let Me Tell You This (poetry), and A Charm in His Arms (poetry), Suisun Valley Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2000.

Conference (poetry) and Zaftig Means Juicy (poetry), Daybreak, volume 4, March 2001.

Intention (poetry) and Revision (poetry), Harvest 2001, Spring 2001

Julien at Three (poetry), Rockhurst Review, 14^th Edition, Spring 2001

A Charm in His Arms (poetry), Something We Can Hold (poetry), and Mi Palomita (poetry), Bearing Witness: Poems by Teachers About Teaching, 2002, Zephyr Press.

If You Are Lucky (poetry), The Peralta Press, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2002. Finalist in the Oh-One Writing Awards.

Transmogrification (poetry), Pudding Magazine, 45, autumn 2002.

Wondering About Cows, (poetry) Gargoyle, Volume 47, Summer 2003

Cave Flesh, (poetry), forthcoming in California Quarterly

Women are Different (fiction), forthcoming in Yellow Silk

After Your Rape (poetry), forthcoming in Survivor Magazine.

Giving Light (poetry), forthcoming in First Time: A Woman's Anthology

Intention (poetry) and Gardner, Hot Day (poetry) forthcoming in Fresh Ground, 2003 Double Issue

Academic Writing

Through Death, Madness, Sex, and Mostly Sorrow: The Growth of the Protagonists in the Novels by John Irving, Master’s Thesis, SFSU, 1987.

The Part-Timer: An Analysis and Proposal (essay), DVC Forum, August 31, 1990.

What Do Part-Time Instructors Really Want? (essay), DVC Forum, February 1, 1991.

Diverse Voices of Women (textbook/Women’s Studies-Literature), Mayfield Publishing, 1995.

Dangerous Rugs (essay), DVC Forum, April 13, 1998.

Reflections After a Meeting Where I was Threatened With Arrest: A True Story (essay), DVC Forum, February 15, 2002.

Awarded Writer's Grant from Vermont Studio Center for 6/23-7/6/2001

California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, 2002-2003

Awarded Writer’s Grant from Vermont Studio Center for 7/4/03-7/18/03

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