GEORGIA LITERARY COMMUNITIES MEMBERSHIPS
Northeast Georgia Literary Society (NEGA), 2025-present. Board of Directors secretary, 2026. Honorable mention for “Pirate Spiders,” flash fiction, 2026 Annual Writers Contest.
The Atlanta Writers Club (AWC), 2021-present. Best Manuscript Sample award for The Architect’s Eye at the Atlanta Writers Conference, November 2021.
Founder of the AWC-sponsored Memoir Network Group, 2024-26. The group supports memoir and narrative nonfiction authors preparing to publish. We meet monthly, taking turns to present on publishing and marketing topics. Our newsletter highlights upcoming topics, offers involvement and cross-promotion opportunities, and updates our growing email list.
AWC-sponsored Kelley Cody-Grimm Critique Group, 2022-26. The group meets online twice a month. Members submit up to 6,000 words and receive oral and written feedback. We focus on fiction and non-fiction works of literary merit that push boundaries with unique perspectives and distinct voices.
SHORT FILMS on YouTube
Memoir Network: Identifying your Audience, 2025. Meet our Memoir Network writers as we share our book’s logline, highlight key selling points, and identify target audiences. https://youtu.be/HsG5mDfTOj0
Southbound on Peregrine, a 1986 Tashiba 40, 2019, 4.2K views. A cruise down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway on our Ta Shing012, honoring our son Stuart Manley Spangler, who died at 18. 40 in Oct-Nov 2. https://youtu.be/V2kcNjxYCDE
Impressionist Architecture: The Tour Eiffel, 2019. The interdisciplinary approach identifies Impressionist features, such as the secularization of art, short brushstrokes of unmixed color, and painting en plein air, and translates them into the architecture of the Eiffel Tower, which was also erected during the Belle Époque. https://youtu.be/1BbkybEloX8
Cubist Architecture: The Villa Savoye, 2017, 10K views. The interdisciplinary perspective presents Le Corbusier’s 1931 house as a Cubist work, embodying the conceptual modernity of a “machine to live in,” light from multiple sources, and a “free plan” that creates an inside/outside ambiguity. Moving along the ramp invites visitors to engage in a Cubist experience. https://youtu.be/U7OVxyL-z68
Sv-peregrine.net. Blog about the trips we took on our Tashiba 40, Peregrine, and, in particular, the cruise down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Oct-Dec 2012.
Peregrine, a 1986 Tashiba 40, 2015, 27K views. A video I made for my husband, Dickie. https://youtu.be/ndOtpEOZsTc
PUBLICATIONS: Short Stories and Literary Criticism Essays
“When you have an accent, people don’t see you as an individual but through the clichés they associate with your country. The prejudice is positive in my case. In the American eye, being from Paris makes me intelligent and sophisticated. Once, a guy asked me, ‘Are all French women like you?’ I nodded vigorously and replied, ‘Absolutely, just like all American men are like you.’ I saw in his eyes that my sarcasm only reinforced his prejudice that all Parisians are witty. How annoying.” —May Spangler, “Taking the Oath.”
- “Joro Spiders,” flash story, And the Mountains Listened, Jeff Shaw ed. Gilmer Arts Literary, November 2026.
- “Taking the Oath,” short story, winner of the tales2Inspire contest, “Turning the Page.” The Moonstone Collection, Book 2, February 2022. p. 21-26.
- “What Makes Paris More Beautiful under the Rain,” critical essay, Peter Lang Blog, 2018. An article on “Midnight in Paris” (Woody Allen, 2011). What makes Paris more beautiful under the rain?
- “Postmodern Anthropomorphism in Birga’s Beaubourg,” critical essay, Academia.edu, 2015.
- “Gavroche at the Bastille,” critical essay, Academia.edu, 2014.
- “L’Hermaphrodisme monstrueux de Diderot,” critical essay, Études Françaises, vol. 39, No. 2, 2003, p. 109-21.
- “Les Monstres textuels dans le transformisme de Diderot,” critical essay, Diderot Studies XXIX, 2003, p. 137-60.
- “Paxos by Night,” short story, first prize in La Passion et autres nouvelles. Paris: Atelier Z, May 2003, p. 9-19.
- “L’Utopie postcoloniale de L’Île mystérieuse,” critical essay, Francophonia vol. 44, Spring 2003, p. 77-98. L’Île mystérieuse
- “Images of Paris: Big “C” Culture for the Non-Speaker of French,” critical essay. The French Review, vol. 75, No. 4, March 2002, p. 756-69.
- “Folie parisienne: le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy,” critical essay. JAISA, vol. 7, No. 1-2, fall 2001-spring 2002, p. 1-14. Folie parisienne
- “The Saint-Bartholomew’s Fragmentation.” A poster for the exhibition “Science and Art: shared Frontiers” in the Schatten Gallery, Emory University, January-May 2001.
- “Mireille,” short story. The Prose Menagerie, Cara Swann ed., http://www.geocities.com/Sotto/Studios/5116/index.html, June 2000.
- “Avenue des Ternes,” short story. The White Crow, Osric Publishing, July 2000, p. 20-25.
- “Un Portrait dans un coin de robe (Julie, lettre II-25),” critical essay. Littératures, vol. 42, printemps 2000, p. 75-84.
- “Science, philosophie et littérature: le polype de Diderot,” critical essay. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie, vol. 23, October 1997, p. 89-107.
AUTHOR TALKS AND BOOK SIGNINGS
Book signing for Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art. Author Festival of the Northeast Georgia Literary Society, UNGA Gainesville Campus, 2026.
Book signing for Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art. MLA Convention in Chicago, 2019. With my editor, Meagan Simpson, Acquisitions Editor at Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
Book signing for Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art. AESA Conference in Greenville, Georgia, 2018. With fellow writer at Peter Lang, Virginia Lea.
Author talk and book signing for Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art. Facilitated by the Emory University Barnes & Noble bookstore, Druid Hills Golf Club, Atlanta, September 2018. The presentation, “Impressionist Tour Eiffel: a Bridge to the Sky,” showed how the 300-meter-high tower brings its visitors into the clouds, like a vertical bridge between land and sky.
Author talk and book signing for Papa a dit, Maman aussi at the Atelier Z art gallery, Paris, France, June 2017.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT EMORY UNIVERSITY
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1996-2003, and Teaching Assistant, 1991-96:
- French Language: grammar, composition, conversation, and writing skills
- Fr170S Freshman Seminar: “Images of Paris” (in English)
- Fr314 What is Interpretation?
- Fr314 Reading Cultural Artifacts
- Fr341 Studies in the Classical Period
- Fr350 Readings in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Fr351 Studies in the Modern Period
- Fr361 Topics in Translation: “Images of Paris” (in English)
- Fr387 Visual Culture: “Images de Paris” (in French)
- Fr387 Visual Culture: “Windows in the Modern Culture”
- Fr478 Special Topics Literature Seminar: “Literary Monsters”
ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS IN PARIS AND ATLANTA
- Renovation of an apartment building on Avenue de la Grande Armée, Paris, 2002-20. It included creating a 25m2 studio and a 40m2 apartment on the attic floor, and renovating a 160m2 apartment, three 66m2 apartments, and the ground-floor entrance and stairwell.
- Renovation and management of duplexes at Stillwood Dr. and Virginia Ave., Atlanta, 2006-15.
- Renovation of houses in Atlanta. Self-employed, 1987-91.
- Graduate Architect, Rabun and Hatch Architects, Inc., Atlanta, 1984. Designer for Houston’s Restaurants and project designer for adapting a modular construction system from European to American standards.
- Intern Architect, Helfrich and Briles Architects, Atlanta, 1980-83. Designer for Turner Broadcasting System offices on William Street, Atlanta, and for the Turner Broadcasting Headquarters in Atlanta, New York, and Dallas. Designer for condominiums and houses in Atlanta and Hilton Head.
- Intern Architect, Atelier Remondet and Atelier Taieb, Paris, 1978-79. Design and preparation of drawings for a school extension. Renovation of apartments in Paris. Design and working drawings for a hotel.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Comic Strips: “How to Get Kids to Eat Vegetables,” “Teachers,” and “Parenting” 1988-1990.
Christmas Cards: Original ink drawings to personalize Christmas Cards, 1989.
