ABOUT

I’m an Associate Professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, New York where I teach creative writing and literature. My stories and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, True Story, and elsewhere. My essay  “Marceline Wanted a Bigger Adventure” won a 2020 Pushcart Prize. My stories have been twice named as notable in the Best American Short Stories anthologies (2008, 2010), and once in the Best American Nonrequired Reading series (2007), and an essay was listed as notable in the Best American Essays 2020. I hold an MFA in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and  a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah.

My third book, a collection of short stories titled We Are a Teeming Wilderness, won the Press 53 Prize for Fiction and was published by Press 53 in spring 2023. My essay collection, Glass, Light, and Electricity, won the 2019 Permafrost Prize in Nonfiction and was published by the University of Alaska Press in 2020. My debut novel, The Good Echo, was published by Black Lawrence Press in December 2018. You can read more about each of these on the Books tab.

My work is represented by Julie Stevenson at Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agency.