Category: literary journal

I’m eeelated to have a long story, “Capers of the Girl Moriarties,” up in the latest superb superb issue of Willow Springs. This story was originally a long flashback chapter in The Asterisms, and grew into its own asymmetric beast, full of feral teenage girls and a bottle of chloroform. Thanks to everyone at WS […]

Amidst all the sadness and rage over the last six months, I’m excited to attend and read at a Seneca Review reading next week; it’s a solace and joy to listen to, be in the company of such brilliancies. I’ll be reading something gruesome from my novel-in-progress, The Stills. If you’re in the Finger Lakes, […]

After five years away from the important and rewarding work of literary journals, I am super super happy to announce that I have joined the staff of Seneca Review. As co-editor with the brilliant Kathryn Cowles of SR’s Beyond Category section (which reminds me, so pleasantly, of the Tour de France and its “hors categorie” […]

Many of you know that I was the fiction editor, and later the co-editor, of the Amsterdam-based literary journal Versal from 2005 to 2017. It was a super, and meaningful run. I left this position, one I dearly loved, only because of the exigencies of a tenure-track position, coupled with Versal‘s re-centering in Amsterdam (along […]

I’m so pleased that the Los Angeles Review has published “The Last Remembered Intersection” While TLRI functions as a standalone story, it really comes from the novel, which brings up really odd challenges about how to write both for a novel and for a discrete story entity. The exigencies of academia, which require regular publishing, […]