INVENTORY
Inventory follows Eleanor and Theodora, daughters of Greek immigrants coming of age in their family’s restaurant on Lake Huron—playing in the basement stockrooms, washing dishes, taking inventory, training new hires, waitressing—all of which they do with increasing resentment. The stories reflect the sisters’ misguided and defiant efforts to straddle conflicting cultures: Greece and Canada, townies and tourists, restaurant life and everything outside it. As they enter adolescence, they wrestle with gender and working-class politics they barely understand and adopt a recklessness that threatens both themselves and their family’s livelihood.
Inventory was named runner-up for both the 2025 Grace Paley Prize (by judge Kevin Wilson) and the 2025 George Garrett Fiction Prize (by judge Fernando A. Flores), and was longlisted for the 2025 W. S. Porter Prize.
“Inventory spans time and geography in exquisite prose that seeks to uncover the ways in which we are bound to our family history, and all the ways we radically seek to fracture that tidy narrative. Following a family of Greek immigrants running a restaurant in Canada, this book is insightful and beautiful, even as it plumbs all the ways in which pain is forever passed back and forth between ourselves and the people who made us.” - Kevin Wilson, author of Run for the Hills and Nothing To See Here
“Inventory makes a great debut!” - Fernando A. Flores, author of Brother Brontë and Tears of the Truffle Pig
STORIES
“Inventory”
forthcoming in The Georgia Review, 2027
“Monemvasia”
in Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing, Summer 2026
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Rooms with a View: In Praise of Novels-in-Stories
with Nicole Haroutunian
The Writer’s Chronicle, December 2025
Performing Reality: Tina Satter's Verbatim Staging of an FBI Transcript in Is This A Room
Theater in a Post Truth World: Text, Politics, and Performance, Bloomsbury Press, 2022
Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes
The Brooklyn Rail, April 2021
Cortney Andrews: I See You
The Brooklyn Rail, June 2020
Staging the Work of Ballet Amid Noguchi's Expressive Sculptures
Hyperallergic, January 2020
A Performance Investigates Domesticity and Power via Simone de Beauvoir
Hyperallergic, October 2019
Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels
The Brooklyn Rail, November 2019
The Digital is Ephemeral: Ebooks and the Future of Library Collections
Lady Science, January 2019
EVENTS
Off-the-Page: When and Why We Leave the Drama Unwritten
with Nicole Haroutunian, Lisa Ko, Reena Shah, and Shasta Grant
AWP Conference, Chicago, March 2027
Novels in Stories, Fragments, and Constellations
with Nicole Haroutunian, Ananda Lima, Yiming Ma, and Sequoia Nagamatsu
AWP Conference, Los Angeles, March 2025
Novels-in-Stories: Nicole Haroutunian in Conversation with Helen Georgas
Brown Bag Lit, May 2024
AWARDS
Runner-up for 2025 George Garrett Fiction Prize
Runner-up for 2025 Grace Paley Prize
Longlisted for 2025 W. S. Porter Prize
RESIDENCIES
A-Z West, Joshua Tree, California, 2025
South Porch Artists Residency, Summerville, South Carolina, 2025
Writers House, Corsicana, Texas, 2024
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California, 2022
The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia, 2017
Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, California, 2017