Chapbook

MOBILES IN THE SKY (Gertrude Press 2014)

Mobiles in the Sky explores motherhood, love, and grief. After experiencing a terrible tragedy, Kendra and Jaylynn spiral away from each other into their own orbits of mourning. Cowen asks questions about what it means to be the biological mother versus the “other” mother, while exploring issues of art and authenticity.

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Upcoming Novels

FIVE THOUSAND DAYS OF AUTUMN

Nakashima Wakana (Kana) was forced to serve as a Japanese comfort woman during World War II, but now, in 1951, she has an American husband and a house in the kind of small, Southern American town where it is almost impossible to keep a secret. For Kana, the question is if the shadows of her youth and the baby she was forced to leave behind will destroy the new life she has created. Spanning the time during WWII when Japan forced women of multiple nationalities to serve as sexual slaves through the emerging shadow of the Cold War, Five Thousand Days of Autumn blends Japanese folklore and myth with Kana’s struggle to acclimate to a new culture as ghosts of the past leak into her new world, evoking Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life, Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha, and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.

MARCELLA’S WAKE

Marcella’s Wake, a twentieth-century reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” is a multi-generational novel about Marcie Dunbar’s journey to unlock the mystery of her great grandmother, Marcella, after she discovers that her grandmother, a flourishing marine naturalist and heiress working in Provincetown, was institutionalized for having a secret female-lover in the 1920s. Though they lived almost a century apart, Marcie finds striking similarities between herself and Marcella, causing her to question the direction of her future. This project is currently in the research and drafting stage. 

To follow the research process, see my blog on “Research Chronicles.”

To read some of my other creative work, see here:

Fiction

Click here to Read Story “Harmonica-Eater”

Click here to Read Story “Breaking the Banana Tree”

Click Here to Read Story “Raising Sasquatch”

Click Here to read story “A Reef, Someday”: https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2021/08/12/a-reef-someday/

Poetry

Click Here to Read Poem “Nantucket Island”

Click here to Read Poem “Shooting: An Ode to My Daughter, Yet to be Born: http://cheatriverreview.com/issues/issue-15-spring-2021/

Podcast

To listen to a podcast on “Becoming Well-Rounded” see here: