MFA, West Virginia University

 

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Creative Nonfiction (lyric and narrative essays, memoir, linked essay collections)

• Fiction

Recent Courses Taught

• Advanced Creative Nonfiction

• Seminar in Creative Nonfiction: Integrating Research into Personal Essays, Journalism, and Memoir

• Studies in Creative Nonfiction: Essay Collections

• Craft and Forms of Prose: Flash Nonfiction

• Writing the New Mexican Landscape

Selected Publications

Books:

• Shake Terribly the Earth. Ohio University Press, 2013.

Journal Publications:

• “A Haunting.” Shenandoah. Forthcoming

• “What Happens When You Drown.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. Issue 61, May 2019.

• “An Infestation.” Colorado Review. Spring 2018.

•  “Beagle in the Road.” Superstition Review, no. 20, fall 2017.

• "Grateful." Beautiful Things. 25 Sept. 2017.

• "A Hobo Like Me." Quiddity. 10.1. 2017.

• "Things Sad People Shouldn't Have."Pank 10.4. July-Aug. 2015.

• "Chariot's a-Comin'." Gravel. May 2015.

• "Portraits within Portraits." Guernica Daily. 30 April 2015.

• "Ghost Siblings." Beside the Point. Fall 2014. 

• "Ten Years Ago." Brevity. Winter 2014.

• Shornrn."Wigleaf: (Very) Short Fiction. 24 Sept. 2012.

• "Dear Wigleaf: Under the Night Heron Tree."Wigleaf: (Very) Short Fiction. 24 Sept. 2012.

• "Boat Stories: Three Generations."Tusculum Review 7 (2011): 175-184.

• "Garbage-Bag Charity."SNReview 10.2 (Summer 2008).

• "Red Ribbon." Paddlefish (2008): 18-21.

Anthology Publications:

• “Beaver Pond.”  Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jessica Corey. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2019.

• "Ten Years Ago." Love and Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life. Ed. Nick Healy. North Mankato, MN: Switch Press, 2015: 128-131.

Honors & Offices

• 2009-2010 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University

• Cimarron Review Editor of Nonfiction