Expertise
Creative Writing, Writing, Short FictionResearch Interests
20th Century and Contemporary Fiction, Short Fiction, Film
Education
M.F.A.: Creative Writing, Fiction, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
B.A.: English and Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst聽
Selected Publications
Short Fiction
- 聽鈥淎 Naked Horse.鈥 The Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2022
- 鈥淎 Banal Story.鈥 The Literary Review, Summer 2017
- 鈥淥 Luxury.鈥 The Texas Review, Spring/Summer 2017
- 鈥淲ho Would Be the Man, Who Would Be the King?鈥 Cosmonauts Avenue, April 2015
- 鈥淭he Real Right Great Good.鈥 Spolia, February 2015
- 鈥淪even Greyhounds.鈥 The Cupboard, single-issue chapbook, June 2013
- 鈥淭hree Greyhounds.鈥 Gulf Coast, Volume 25, Number 1/ Winter/Spring 2013
- 鈥淟eave.鈥 New England Review, Volume 30, Number 4/ 2009鈥2010
- 鈥淓dson to 1958.鈥 Swink, August 2009
- 鈥淭he Last Dead.鈥 Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2008
- 鈥淒elta Interval.鈥 Harper鈥檚, June 2004
- 鈥淒elta Interval.鈥 StoryQuarterly, Fall 2003
Short Nonfiction
- 聽鈥淟iquid Repetition: On the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young鈥檚 Miss Macintosh, My Darling鈥 Literary Hub, November 2023
- 聽鈥淓verything Dies Baby, That鈥檚 a Fact: On the Elusive Train Dreams of Claire Denis and Mike Brodie鈥 Literary Hub, September 2022
- 鈥淗ow to Fit Balzac鈥檚 Magnificent Universe onto the Big Screen?鈥 Literary Hub, June 2022
- 聽鈥淭his Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac.鈥 Literary Hub, April 2021
- 聽鈥淲hite Light: An Anecdote to Be Tipped into a Book.鈥 Agni Online, May 2020
- 聽鈥淛enny Offill: The Doomy Bits.鈥 Guernica, March 2020
- 聽鈥淩eview of C.D. Wright鈥檚 Casting Deep Shade.鈥 Northern Woodlands, Winter 2019
- 聽鈥淩eality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg.鈥 Literary Hub, September 2018
- 聽鈥淭he Generic Spectacular: An Interview with Jim Shepard.鈥 The Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2018
- 聽鈥淩eading Henry Dumas After Trayvon Martin.鈥 Literary Hub, November 2015
- 聽鈥淭he Ephemeral Real: Six Short Essays on Film.鈥 The Los Angeles Review of Books, August to October 2014
- 聽鈥淲hen Bad Reviewers Go Good.鈥 The Paris Review Daily, November 2012
- 聽鈥淭en Tangents for Satantango.鈥 The Collagist, August 2012
- 聽鈥淵our Eyes Deceive You: Claire Beckett at the Wadsworth Atheneum.鈥 The Paris Review Daily, August 2012
- 聽鈥淥. Henry鈥檚 Afterlife: Thoughts and Ephemera.鈥 The Rumpus, June 2010
- 聽鈥淭he Rumpus Interview with Brad Watson.鈥 The Rumpus, March 2010
- 聽鈥淎 Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Lindisfarne.鈥 Agni Online, August 2009
- 聽鈥淎n Interview with Lydia Davis.鈥 Meridian, May 2008