Ms. Whiton’s stories and poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Way Life Should Be: Contemporary Stories By Maine Writers, North Dakota Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Northwest Review, Crazyhorse 63, American Fiction: Volume 10, Words & Images, and The Café Review. (Trying to get your hands on a copy of one of the above mentioned journals? Check the publications page.)

After earning a Masters Degree in Fiction Writing from Vermont College in 2001, Ms. Whiton was hoodwinked by a former professor into teaching as an adjunct at her undergraduate alma mater, the University of Southern Maine. For six years she taught creative writing, literature, and composition, in addition to teaching workshops for Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Stonecoast Summer Writers’ Conference, and the Lesley Seminars.

From 2001–2005, she was a regular contributor to the Portland Phoenix, where her pieces on boxing and no-holds-barred fighting won two New England Press Association Awards. She has also published numerous articles about healthcare, dance and performance art, fashion, food, and travel; her travel essays are currently in circulation as the collection Under the Bridge, illustrated by photographer Heidi Killion. (For more information about Under the Bridge, see the travel page.)

The recipient of the 2000 Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine Writers, Ms. Whiton has performed her work in venues ranging from the Black Cat in Washington D.C. to the Big Buck Mall in Washington, Maine, and was the organizer and host of Red Rocking Chair, an ongoing interdisciplinary event for writers and performance artists at the now defunct Skinny Rock Club in Portland. She collaborated on the adaptation of her short story “The Deal,” into an eponymous short film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2003 U.S. National Short Film Competition. She has also contributed work to Casco Bay Weekly, The Bollard, and Maine Public Radio.

Ms. Whiton is currently at work on a novel, Negative Space, and a collection of short fiction entitled Giving Her Away and Other Stories. She is the Program Administrator for the Solstice Creative Writing Programs of Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, where she enjoys the fine company of her boss-friend Meg Kearney.