Present | Professor, Wright State University ‐ School of Humanities and Cultural Studies | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- Amazon First Reads selection, Blackout, June 2022
- Macavity Award, finalist, Deer Season for Best First Mystery Novel, 2022
- Midwest Book Award, finalist, Deer Season for Fiction - Literary/Contemporary/Historical, 2022
- Edgar Award, winner, Deer Season for Best First Novel by an American Author, 2022
- Pushcart nomination “Hold Steady,” by North American Review
- Assisted Living: Stories, finalist, Moon City Press, 2020
- Assisted Living: Stories, semi-finalist for yearly reading period, Sundress Publications, 2020
- Residency, Sundress Academy for the Arts, August 24-30, 2020
- Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award ($5000), 2019
- Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award ($5000), 2016
- “Dog People,” included in Top 100 Distinguished stories 2011, Best American Short Stories 2011
- Finalist, “Feather the Nest,” The Laurel Review Midwest Short Fiction Contest
- Finalist, “The Wrong Man,” The Missouri Review’s 2010 Editor’s Prize
- Residency, Ucross Foundation, July – August 2007
- Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, March – April 2005
- Franklin and Orinda Johnson Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Fellowship, 2004 – 2005
- Residency, The MacDowell Colony, February – March 2004
- Finalist, Fiction Fellowship to the Wisconsin Creative Writing Institute, 2003 – 2004
- The Vreeland Award in Creative Writing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003
- Frank and Marie Wheeler Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Fellowship, 2003 – 2004
- Residency Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, May, 2002
- Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2001
- The Reader Short Fiction Contest, First Place, July 2001
- Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Short Story Award, April 2001
- Work-study Scholarship in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2000
- Partial Non-resident Tuition Fellowship, 1998 – 1999