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5/7/26: New Story in Willow Springs
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 […]
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3/6/26: Zombies, Pittsburgh, NeMLA
While most everyone else will be in Baltimore at AWP, I’ll be hanging out in Pittsburgh, where I’ll be doing one of my first presentations of my novel-in-progress, The Stills, at the Northeast Modern Language Association conference. I’m very much excited for this panel, entitled “Autotheoretical Practice: Writing in the Anthropocene,” and grateful to Ciara […]
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2/18/26: Experimental Fiction Bingo Card
Something for class today: an experimental fiction bingo card. It’s taken me years to create something like a taxonomy, even if sketchy. let me know if i’m missing something. bingo card courtesy of myfreebingocards.com If you want to do your own, here’s the list I’m currently using – please let me know if you have […]
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2/12/26: New fiction in Western Humanities Review
It’s still -10 wind chill here, but I’m very very happy to get this new issue of Western Humanities Review (beloved for all UofU writers) in the mail. It’s got a tribute to my mentors Lance Olsen and Melanie Rae Thon, including a first excerpt from my zombie novel in shuddering progress. Thanks to Michael […]
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6/30/25: July 9. Upcoming Reading!
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, […]
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2/13/25: Review of Ray Levy’s School
I’m happy to say that the wonderful online journal Big Other has published my review of Ray Levy’s novel School. I’m hoping you’ll read the review, and pick up a copy of one of the most challenging, yet rewarding books I’ve read in a long time. Please support presses like FC2 that champion experimental fiction […]
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8/8/24: You’re Still in the Running
It’s early days still, but I’m honored that The Asterisms is a finalist for AWP’s James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel, and doubly happy that Susan McCarty’s manuscript The Only Thing Missing is Something is a finalist for AWP’s Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Fingers crossed! You can check out the finalists […]
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7/7/24: Review of Shena McAuliffe’s We Are A Teeming Wildnerness
I sometimes, after the hyperspeed of studying for exams, still have trouble reading for fun, so it helps me to write reviews, where I’m forced to really read a book slowly, read it again, think about it, think about how to convey (all sorts of) powerful writing to others. So I’m happy to say that […]
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5/17/23: Joining Seneca Review
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” […]
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3/17/23: RIT Creative Writing faculty read at the Henrietta Public Library
One of the most difficult things about being an academic is attending to your school duties and finding ways to meaningfully connect the institution to the local community. When I got to RIT, I had such big plans about creating local reading series’, volunteering at Writers & Books, high schools. Quickly, though, it became clear […]