Education

BA, MA Wake Forest University
MFA Indiana University

Research/Teaching Focus

Creative writing (fiction, screenwriting), southern fiction, contemporary fiction, Scottish fiction, literary journalism

Recent/Selected Publications

Haints (novel).  Moorhead, MN: New Rivers P, 2012.

Dead Languages (poems). Tallahassee: Anhinga, 2008.

The Weatherman (novel). Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2004.

War Memorials (novel). Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2000.

The Member-Guest (novel). New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Faculty photo by Patrick Scott Vickers – 2014