Department

English

Position

Associate Professor

Books

• Salt Publishing
  Greetings from Below: Stories 2012
• Greetings from Below: Stories
  Sarabande Books 2010

Articles

• The Value of Voice
  Post Road, number 26 2013
• Ecotone
  Arboretum
  volume, 6, number 1 2010
• Folio
  Crash Site on a Desert Mountain Outside Las Vegas
  volume 25, issue 1 2010
• Fiction
  The Last Thing in the World
  number 55 2009
• The Massachusetts Review
  Glitter Gulch
  volume 50, number 3 2009
• Yale Review
  This Life or the Next
  volume 97, number 4 2009
• New England Review
  First Sight
  volume 29, number 2 2008
• A Familiar Place
  Cimarron Review, issue 49 2004
• New England Review
  Driving Lessons
  volume 25, number 3 2004
• New England Review
  True Love Vs. the Cigar Store Indian
  volume 21, number 2 2000

Editing and Reviews

• Gulf Coast
  The Young and the Shiftless: Justin Taylor's Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever
  volume 23, issue 1 2011

Presentations

• Literary Pub Quiz (reading), Pageturners Lounge, Omaha, NE 2016
• Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture (lecture on the characteristics of a creative-writing workshop), Omaha, NE 2015
• Wednesday Words: The Braided River Series (reading), Nebraska Arts Council/The Backwaters Press, Kaneko-UNO Library, Omaha, NE 2013
• Greengo Coffee & Deli (reading), with Brion Poloncic, Todd Robinson, Sarah Wehbe, and Killer Blow, Omaha, NE 2013
• Poetry at the Moon (reading), Crescent Moon Coffee, Lincoln, NE 2012
• Words Less Spoken (reading) 2012
• Visiting Writers Series (reading), Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE 2012
• Nebraska Book Festival (reading), Lincoln, NE 2012
• Arthaus (lecture on the lifestyle and work habits of a writer), Omaha, NE 2012
• Missouri Valley Reading Series (reading), University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE 2011
• Vegas Valley Book Festival (lecture on writing memorable characters in fiction), Las Vegas, NV 2011
• Iowa City Book Festival (reading), Iowa City, IA 2011
• Magers & Quinn Booksellers (reading), with John Jodzio and Dessa, Minneapolis, MN 2011
• Barnes & Noble (reading), Henderson, NV 2011
• Creighton University Writers (reading), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, with Brent Spencer and Mary Helen Stefaniak, Lincoln, NE 2011
• Writers and the Process Series (reading), Big Blue Marble Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA 2011
• KGB Bar (reading), with Urban Waite, New York, NY 2011
• Prairie Lights Books (reading), Iowa City, IA 2011
• Millsaps College (reading), Jackson, MS 2011
• Lindsay J. Cropper Writers Series (reading), University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 2011
• Vermin on the Mount (reading), Sushi Contemporary Performance and Visual Arts, San Diego, CA 2011
• Creighton Reading Series (reading) 2011
• The Bookworm (reading), Omaha, NE 2011
• Writing Center Reading Series (reading), Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE 2011
• The Writes of Spring (reading) 2010
• The Writes of Spring (reading) 2009
• Writing Center Reading Series (reading), Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE 2009
• Sewanee Writers’ Conference (reading), Sewanee, TN 2008
• An Evening of Prose and Poetry (reading), University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE 2008
• Crescent Moon Reading Series (reading), Crescent Moon Coffee, Lincoln, NE 2006
• Midwest Best Reading Series (reading and lecture on fact as a basis for fiction), The Reading Grounds, Omaha, NE 2006
• Get on the Mic (reading), Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, IA 2004
• Talk Art (reading), Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, IA 2004

Awards

• Creative Writing Fellowship
  National Endowment for the Arts
• Finalist, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, “Novel-in-Progress” category
  for Fortune City (novel in progress)
  Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society
• "Arboretum" anthologized in Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest
  "Arboretum" anthologized in Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest
  University of New Mexico Press
• Silver Medal, "Short Story Fiction" category
  for Greetings from Below: Stories
  Independent Publisher Book Awards
  Greetings from Below
• Finalist, James Jones First Novel Fellowship
  for Fortune City (novel in progress)
  James Jones Literary Society/Wilkes University
• Finalist, Eric Hoffer Award, Grand Prize
  for Greetings from Below: Stories
• Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature
  Nebraska Arts Council
• Notable Western Story of the Year, Best of the West 2011
  "This Life or the Next" named a "Notable Western Story of the Year" in Best of the West 2011, New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri
  University of Texas Press
• Silver Pen Award
  "presented to emerging and mid-career Nevada authors of talent and promise"
  Nevada Writers Hall of Fame
• IGGY Award
  "awarded to outstanding freshman mentors, counselors, advocates and role models"
  Center for Student Success and Retention, Creighton University
• Pushcart Prize
  "Arboretum" nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Don Waters)
• International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories
  for Greetings from Below: Stories
  Salt Publishing
  Salt Publishing
• Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (selected by David Means)
  for Greetings from Below
  Sarabande Books
• Finalist, Katharine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize
  for Greetings from Below
  Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
• Finalist, Hudson Prize
  for Greetings from Below
  Black Lawrence Press
• 
  “First Sight” named a “Notable Western Story of the Year” in Best of the West 2009, New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri
  University of Texas Press
• Stanley Elkin Scholarship
  Sewanee Writers' Conference
• Pushcart Prize
  “First Sight” nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Don Waters)
• Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature
  Yaddo
• Finalist, Schaeffer Fellowship, International Institute of Modern Letters
  Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Finalist, Fiction Prize (judged by Rick Moody)
  for “Arboretum”
  Indiana Review
• Pushcart Prize
  “Driving Lessons” nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Joyce Carol Oates)
• Third Prize, College Fiction Contest
  for “Driving Lessons”
  Playboy

Consulting

• Guest Judge
  2013-2014 Cropper Creative Writing Contest in Prose
  University of San Diego
  2014 - 2014
• Guest Judge
  The Flintlock's Boatright Award in Prose (2011-2012)
  Nebraska Wesleyan University
  2012 - 2012