Education

• M.F.A., Boston University
• M.A. (Literature), University of Illinois
• M.A. (Film Studies), New York University

Selected Publications

"Orchard Tender." Meridian 28 (January 2012). Listed in "Other Distinguished Stories of 2012" in The Best American Short Stories (2013).

"Common Area." Grain Magazine 39.2 (Winter 2012): 87. Winner of first prize in Grain's Annual Short Grain Contest—Fiction (2011).

"I, Budgie." Witness 24.1 (Spring 2011).

Rear View: Stories. Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize for Fiction and the Connecticut Book Award for Fiction; finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

"The World to Come." Moon City Review, 2010.

"The Physics of Large Objects." Alaska Quarterly Review 26.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2009).