Publications & Honors

Novel

Dream City, Macadam/Cage (2008)

 

Short Stories              

“Shadows,” The Literary Review (Spring 2004)

“The Load That Breaks You,” River Styx, No. 63/64 (2003)

“That Which God Has Made,” Writers’ Forum, Vol. 28 (2002)

“Speaking in Code,” Antietam Review (2001) (story nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

“What Will I Say When I Speak?” Talking River Review (Summer 2001)

“Scratches,” Baltimore Review, 3:1 (Winter 1999)

“Pictured Perfection,” Crescent Review, 12:1 (Spring 1994)

 

Poetry                        

“This River,” Great Lakes Review, No. 1 (Fall 2012)

“Night School,” Great Lakes Review, No. 1 (Fall 2012)

“The Burning Boy,” Epicenter, No. 11 (2008)

“lessons in evolution,” Poet Lore (Winter 2006)

“The dogs tonight”, Poet Lore (Winter 2006)

“stet,” New Delta Review (Summer 2005)

 

Non-Fiction              

“My Life as a Collector,” Powells.com (November 2009)

Untitled Essay, Writers Read (February 2009)

Untitled Essay, The Page 69 Test (December 2008)

“New Age Statements from Breakdancing: Mr. Fresh and the Supreme Rockers Show You How to Do It!” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (2004)

 

Awards, Grants and Honors

Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, 2012 and 2014

James A. Michener Fellowship, University of Texas, 2002

Henry Hoyns Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2002 (declined)

Second Prize (Fiction), Larry Neal Writers’ Award, D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, 2002

First Prize (Fiction), Larry Neal Writers’ Award, D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, 2001

First Prize (Fiction), Larry Neal Writers’ Award, D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, 2000

Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, St. Albans School, Washington, DC, 2000

Artist Fellowship (Literature), D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, 1999