News

07.01.2010: My story “The Sleep” is an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle download now available on Amazon.

06.01.2010: I’m part of a roundtable discussion about first books, featuring a whole herd of debut authors, at Hobart.

05.04.2010: Found out my story “Steal Small” will be included in The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses anthology, coming out this fall. Thank you to Bill Henderson for choosing it, and to Prairie Schooner and Laura van den Berg for nominating it.

04.13.2010: I'm thrilled and honored to be the winner of the 2010 Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review. Read the story, or just see the egg! 

03.12.2010 Thank you to Prairie Schooner for a 2010 Glenna Luschei Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination, for my story "Steal Small."

Spring 2010: More details on the Prose page, but look for new stories out in West Branch and DIAGRAM, and new nonfiction in The Normal School and The Yalobusha Review.

Winter, 2010: Here's my author spotlight page at the 2009 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories website.

10.27.2009: I'm so happy to announce that my short story collection This Is Not Your City has found a home with Sarabande Books. It will be published in 2011!

Aug - Dec 2009: I'm back at Arizona State University, guest teaching for the Fall semester.

07.12.2009: A profile in the Grand Rapids Press.

05.11.2009: A short article in REVUE West Michigan.

05.01.2009: A Grand Valley State University "Success Story!"

Events

08.15-22.2010: A summer workshop at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA.

06.27-07.14.2010: Travelling in Peru, where I wrote precisely nothing and read very little, but climbed to Machu Picchu.

04.13.2010: The Paris Review Spring Revel in New York City.

04.07-11.2010: The AWP conference in Denver, CO. I'm talking on a panel and volunteering at the bookfair, but mostly seeing lots of fantastic writers and lots of good friends. 

11.04.2009: Reading at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Piper Writers House, 7:45pm.

07.14-26.2009: I was a scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

05.19.2009: I was here for the release of the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories.

Spring 2009: I visited the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and hugged a koala!

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