BioI’m a native Iowan, but I grew up all over the Midwest: Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. After college, I spent a good amount of time in New England, New York City, and South Florida. But now I live in St. Paul, Minnesota, and spend my summers in Chicago.
My short stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Denver Quarterly, Fugue, The Gettysburg Review, and several other journals. I was the winner of the annual Short Story Prize from the journal Fiction for my story “The Bottle.” This year, The Iowa Review nominated my story “SuperAngel” for a Pushcart Prize. I was also a finalist for the Donald Barthelme Prize in Short Prose.
I am Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas, where I teach creative writing & literature courses. I hold a BA in English and Journalism from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Before joining the faculty at St. Thomas, I taught writing at Florida Gulf Coast University. Before that, I worked at the Academy of American Poets in New York City, editing and designing the website Poets.org. I’ve also worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist, a web designer, and, a long time ago, a movie theater projectionist.
“It’s Fashion Week”
Gulf Coast
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“SuperAngel”
The Iowa Review
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“After the Death of the Book”
Fugue Magazine
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“Snowbird”
Tigertail, A South Florida Annual
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“What I’ll Trade for the Halibut”
Swink Magazine
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“Aero • phobe”
Failbetter
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“The Human Soul Out Wandering As A Mouse”
The Denver Quarterly
“The Tattoo”
CellStories
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“The Sleeping Bag Salesman Makes His Pitch”
The Open Face Sandwich
“Windows”
Born Magazine
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“The New Year’s Child”
The Antioch Review
“I Have Seen Some Dirty Things”
The Gettysburg Review
“The Reception”
AGNI
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“The Potato Salad Five”
Pleiades
“The Young Father’s Story”
The Sycamore Review
“Bottle”
Fiction
“Flight Two-Eighty-Five”
Pindeldyboz
“Pops”
The Albion Review
“Catchwords”
The Kennesaw Review
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Co-editor, The Gulf Coast Reader: A Composition I Manual from Florida Gulf Coast University
Pearson Learning Solutions, 2010
co-author, “Approaches and Practices for Infusing Sustainability into a Writing Programme”
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
“The Agency of the Performer: On Jackson Mac Low’s Music of Chance”
American Poet
Department of English
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University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105