Education

• MFA, Creative Writing: Fiction, George Mason University, 2005
• MA, Literature, Middlebury College, 2004
• BA, English, Davidson College, 1997

Research Interests

• Creative Writing (Fiction)
• 20th Century Crime Fiction
• 20th Century Queer Literature
• Film Studies

Select Publications

Novels

• The Savage Kind, A Mystery. New York: Pegasus Books, 2021.
• Dodging and Burning, A Mystery. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018.

Articles

• “Femmes Fatales, Queer Rage, and Me.” Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Jan.–Feb. 2022, pp. 30–31.
• “The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope.” CrimeReads,13 Sept. 2019.
• “Blacklight: Is Patricia Highsmith’s Lesbian Classic ‘The Price of Salt’ Crime Fiction?” Lambda Literary Review, 31 Dec. 2015.
• More articles

Affiliations

• Mystery Writers of America (Mid-Atlantic Chapter VP)
• House of Mystery Radio Show Podcast (co-host)
• OutWrite: Washington, D.C.’s annual LGBTQ+ literary festival (Fiction Chair, Moderator)
• Sisters in Crime National

Courses

• ENGL 437: Advanced Fiction Writing
• ENGL/GSWS 354: Queer Literature: Transgression and Freedom in Queer Literature
• ENGL 307: Writing Fiction

Awards

• Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery, 2022, for The Savage Kind
• Macavity Award for Best First Mystery, 2019, for Dodging and Burning
• DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities, Artist Fellowships, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
• Larry Neal Writers’ Award for Fiction, 2015.