Education

• Ph.D., University of Denver
• M.F.A., University of Florida

Interests

• 21st-Century Fiction
• Forms and History of the American Short Story
• Creative Writing Pedagogies
• Scandinavian-American Immigrant Literatures

Selected Publications

The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic: Stories. Coffee House Books, 2014.

"Cabins." Subtropics 16 (Spring/Summer 2013).

"The Pants and the Belt." Thumbnail 4: Flash Fiction (Thumbnail Magazine: A Flash Fiction Journal). April 2013: 1.

"Tomtens." Fairy Tale Review: The Grey Issue. Spring 2012.

"Our Time in Norrmalmstorg." The Laurel Review. Spring 2012.

"We Figured on a Lifetime." The Collagist. January 2012.

"O Sweet One in the Bluff." New World Writing (formerly Blip Magazine). Fall 2011.

"When Our Son, 24, Brings Us His First Girlfriend." New South. Winter 2011.

"Last Cottage." Best American Mystery Stories 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. Originally published in The Cincinnati Review 7.1 (Summer 2010).