Mona Houghton has had stories published in Carolina Quarterly, Crosscurrents, Bluff City, West Branch, Oracle, and Livingston Press' TARTTS 2. Her short story "Sex" was performed as part of the New Short Fiction Series, Sally Shore, at the Beverly Hills Library. She has an essay, "What I Learned from a Bricoleur," in Everyday Urbanism, edited by Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski. Houghton won the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction for her story "A Brother, Some Sex, and an Optic Nerve," which appeared in the Summer Issue of Harpur Palate. Her story "On the Other Side of the San Gabriel M...