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Years at Knox: 2005-present
Education
M.F.A., 2005, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
B.A., 1998, Monmouth College.
Teaching Interests
Creative fiction writing, creative non-fiction, modern and contemporary American literature, graphic novels, dante’s inferno.
Publications
All I Have in the World: Stories, Forthcoming.
Moussaoui (chapbook), Forthcoming.
Half a Calendar (novel), Forthcoming.
"Adopting," The Sun Magazine, Forthcoming.
"Moussaoui Remembers Fire," Salt Flats Annual, Forthcoming.
Phantoms. Pittsburgh: Origami Zoo Press, April 16, 2010.
"Phantoms." Freight Stories (2010.)
"Bardstown (ii)." Staccato Fiction (2010.)
"Review of the Double Rainbow Video on YouTube." 300 Reviews (2010.)
"American Bulldog." Crab Orchard Review (2010.)
"fourteen." Matchbook (2010.)
"Obnubilate." The Collagist (2010.)
"The Rowan House." Wigleaf (2010.)
"A Postcard to Wigleaf." Wigleaf (2010.)
"Especially Roosevelt" (reprint). You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, ed. B.J. Hollars. Writer‘s Digest Books (May 2009): 202-213.
"Inside 'Especially Roosevelt': Uncovering Meaning in an Anecdote." You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, ed. B.J. Hollars. Writer's Digest Books (May 2009): 213-217.
"Writing Exercise." You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, ed. B.J. Hollars. Writer's Digest Books (May 2009): 218-219.
"Two Weeks and One Day." Keyhole Digest May 2009.
"House Calls." Hobart November 2009.
"Rail City." 5_Trope, No. 24, (2008).
"Summer of Skin." The Rambler 5.3 (2008): 57-61.
"Preparation." Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology (2008): 38.
"The First Night Game at Wrigley." New South 1.2 (2008): 48-54.
"Let x." Esquire.com, (2008).
"Infidelity, or The Rice Cooker." Opium Magazine 7 (2008): 89.
"White Noise." Titular Journal, (2008).
"Home of the Poor and Unknown." Barrelhouse 5 (2008): 103-108.
Selecting Editor, Wigleaf‘s Top 50 [Very] Short Stories of 2007, (2008).
"The Perseids," Duck & Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide, Summer 2007.
"Risks in Collaboration: Accountability as We Move Beyond the Center's Walls." Co-authored with J. Cogie, D. Janke, and T.J. Kramer. Edited by William J. Macauley and Nicholas Mauriello. Marginal Words, Marginal Work?: Tutoring the Academy in the Work of Writing Centers. Hampton Press (2007): 105-134.
"Glass." Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics, 2007.
"The Real and True Story," Red Wheelbarrow 8 (Spring 2007): 215-223.
"Amtrak," Blue Earth Review Vol. 5 (Spring 2007): 173.
"Tell Everyone I Said Hi," Avery: An Anthology of New Fiction 1 (Spring 2007): 93-104.
"Estate Sales," Juked, Fall 2006.
"Miracle," SmokeLong Quarterly, Summer 2006.
Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly, Summer 2006.
"Quarry," Georgetown Review, Summer 2006.
"Hunger," Versal, Winter 2006.
"Dextermetious at Ephemera Park," Elimae, January 2006.
"No One in the World," Gulf Stream, Spring 2005.
"About to Drop," Sycamore Review, Fall 2004.
"Peloma," McSweeney's Quarterly, Fall 2003.
"Horizons: A Celebration of Student Inquiry, Imagination, and Creativity" featured student research presentations in the humanities, sciences and social sciences on May 5, and student presentations in music in on May 8.
"Horizons: A Celebration of Student Inquiry, Imagination, and Creativity" at Knox College in May 2012 included award presentations in art, art history, fiction, poetry and playwriting.
Horizons 2012 featured student work in the performing arts -- dance and music -- including the Knox College Choir's world premiere of "Youth and Pioneers: An Ode" and the formal Spring Dance Concert.
