My story “St. Ellen” is out in Gulf Coast today. This is a story I worked on with my (incredible) advisor, Caitlin Horrocks, my very first semester at Warren Wilson. It took over two years for this to get published, and I am very happy it found a place with Gulf Coast. Please check it […]
Well, I did it: I graduated. After two and a half years, I received my MFA in fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Graduating felt good, but weird, and kind of sad? It was strange and wonderful having Al and the kids and my parents in Western North Carolina, where […]
I was honored to have my short story, “Nojento,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Water~Stone Review late last year. Recently, the WSR editors interviewed me about the piece, which you can find here. Sorry to have been a bit quiet on the blog lately. I am gearing up for my graduation from Warren Wilson […]
Hello! It’s time for my yearly reading post that no one asked for! Being a dutiful Enneagram Type 1, I log all my reading in a spreadsheet (#cool). And at the end of the year, I feel compelled to share my reading log lest my careful documentation go to waste. ANYWAY! The basic numbers for […]
It’s been a fruitful few months for yours truly, in terms of publications and other stuff, so here’s a li’l update! In the summer, I published my first personal essay, “My Great Hunger,” in the Cincinnati Review. The editors at the CR were wonderful to work with, especially the Nonfiction Editor, Kristen Iversen, who helped […]
Hello! It’s January, which means it’s time for my annual tradition of updating all three of you who read this about what I read this past year. Last year, I predicted that I wouldn’t have a spare moment for any fun reading this year since I would be starting my MFA program. A year later, […]
Hi! I was on one of my fave podcasts, Extra Hot Great, the other day to discuss a number of hot-trash TV topics, including Sister Wives and 90 Day UK. I have been honored to be a guest on EHG several times over the last decade and it’s always a treat to talk TV with […]
Updating my blog has become a once-yearly January tradition, like taking down the Christmas lights. I have come to enjoy looking back at my year through the books that I read, recalling the ones I liked, the ones I loved, the ones I couldn’t finish. This year, though, even as I look back at the […]
2021 was another wild year, the events of which don’t bear repeating here, because maybe if I don’t mention them, we’ll all forget they happened. (That’s how trauma works, right?) But what I WILL mention here are a few of the books I read in 2021, because some of them were great! And even a […]
It’s been quite a week over here for yours, truly. I’m in the middle of a super-productive residency at VCCA, my story “Clarinet Lessons” won the 2021 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing, I turned thirty-nine, and another one of my stories, “The Hall of Human Origins,” was Highly Commended for the 2021 Bridport Prize. […]