Professional Details
Books
The Book of Right and Wrong (2010, Ohio State University Press)
Published Stories
- “Version” (Battered Suitcase, Fall 2010)
- “The Book of Right and Wrong”* (Roanoke Review, 2009; reprinted Weston Magazine, Summer 2010)
- “Kate the Destroyer” (The Pinch, Fall 2008)
- “I Was Jimmy Carter” (Weston Magazine, Winter 2007)
- “Beard of Bees” (Painted Bride Quarterly, 2007; reprinted Weston Magazine, Summer 2007)
- “Still Life with Dead Bird” (Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, 2006)
- “Depot Island” (North Atlantic Review, 2006)
* Pushcart Prize nominee, 2010
Live Stage Comedy
- Beyond Belief – “Basil’s Day” (November 2, 2013) – Starring Paul F. Tompkins, Paget Brewster, and Bradley Whitford
- Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars – “Better Red Than Dead” (May 3, 2014) – Starring Marc Evan Jackson, Mark Gagliardi, and Timothy Omundson
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Awards & Honors
- Ohio State University Press Prize for Fiction (2010)
- Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Peter Taylor Scholarship (2007)
- CT Council on Culture and Tourism, Fiction Fellowship (2007)
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Teaching
Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry Campus (Fall 2014 – Present)
- Media in America
Western Connecticut State University (Summer 2012 – Present)
- WestConn MFA in Professional & Creative Writing
- Undergraduate writing program
Westport Writers’ Workshop (Fall 2009 – Fall 2013)
- Three weekly fiction workshops in 8-week quarterly sessions
University of California at Los Angeles (Fall 2009- Spring 2011)
- Multiple fiction courses in 10-week sessions for UCLA Extension School
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Education
M.F.A., Fiction Writing & Literature, Bennington Writing Seminars (2005)
B.S., Communications & Film, Fitchburg State College (1994)