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    I am a creative writer whose literary criticism focuses on place, poetics, labor, and the nineteenth-century novel. My critical articles have appeared in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Dickens Studies Annual and George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, while my fiction and poetry have appeared in DIAGRAM, Witness, Fourteen Hills, and cream city review as the winner of the A. David Schwartz Fiction Prize.

    Education


    • Ph.D. in English with Creative-Writing Dissertation (Fiction), University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

    • MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction), Washington University in Saint Louis.

    • B.A. in English with General Honors, Vassar College.

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    My friend, Young Rader, has a wonderful story in the current issue of Chicago Review. The issue also has an interview with Camille Roy, who has a new short-story collection from Nightboat Books, *Honey Mine*. #LGBT Below is the opening of Young Rader's story, "How I Became a Priest." (2023-02-01 ↗)

    I have the impression I’m in the wrong area, but I have no idea what the right one is, which is a familiar-enough story for me. It’s wonderful to see some of the same people from Twitter. (2022-12-30 ↗)

    My #introduction: I am a writer, poet, and scholar whose work focuses on place, #labor, the intersection between prose and poetics, #race, and the nineteenth-century novel. My fiction and poetry are often #surreal. I teach literature and composition at University of Maine at Augusta and at Farmington. Header image: from George Eliot’s Romola. #VictorianStudies #Victodon #C19Studies (2022-12-30 ↗)

    Blog Posts

      Publications

      Article

      Short Fiction 

      • “Panicle.” Menagerie Magazine, issue 5, 2023.

      • “Dear Kay.” Witness Magazine, vol. 32, no. 2, Winter 2019.

      • “Lettie from the Ocean.” Drunken Boat, issue 22, 2015. Archived at http://www.lettiefromtheocean.com

      • “They Won’t Take Your Ideas.” Drunken Boat, issue 18, 2013.

      •  “The Half-Glass Bed.” cream city review, A. David Schwartz Fiction Prize, vol. 36, no. 1, 2012, pp. 177–191.

      • “Present Blusters.” Konundrum Engine Literary Review, February 2009.

      • “A Hasty Conversion.” Crossing Rivers into Twilight, February 2009.

      •  “The River Beautiful.” Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Fall 2006.

      • “Bad Trip.” Memorious, Spring 2005.

      • “The Movie Star.” DIAGRAM, issue 2, no. 5, Fall 2002.


      Poetry and Prose Poetry

      • “Corona, a Video Poem.” Drunken Boat, issue 25, forthcoming.

      • “We Call This River ‘Church,'” “A Stop,” and “November 1.” Washington Square Review, issue 5, 2023, pp.94-96, 132-135, 164.

      • “Get In,” “Come On, Landscape!” and “Analogous.” DIAGRAM, issue, 9, no. 3, June 2019.

      • “Communications for Health-Care Worker.” Fourteen Hills, vol. 25, 2019, pp. 22-24.

      • “Roller-skating in a Redlined Neighborhood.” descant, Fall/Winter 2018.

      • “Went to Tennessee.” Permafrost Magazine, issue 40, no. 2, Summer Online 2018.

      • “Lyme Disease.” Sonora Review, vol. 71, Fall/Winter 2016, p. 27.

      •  “Georgia on Forty-Fourth” and “Undertow.” DIAGRAM, issue 16, no. 14, August 2016.

      • “Day Off.” Judged by Marilyn Hacker, et al. The Hippocrates Prize: The Winning and Commended Poems. The Hippocrates Press, 2012. p. 78.

      • “Key.” DIAGRAM, issue 6, no. 5, Fall 2006.

      • “Record” and “Employee of the Months.” Can We Have Our Ball Back? Summer 2004.

      • “A Lapse.” 42opus, Summer 2003.

      •  “Mandatory Audiotape.” Square Lake, Fall 2002, pp. 46-7.


      Anthologies

      • “Key.” DIAGRAM III. Edited by Ander Monson, Del Sol Press, 2008, p. 243.

      • “The Movie Star.” DIAGRAM: An Anthology of Text, Art and Schematic. Edited by Ander Monson, Del Sol Press, 2003, p. 215.


      Book Reviews

      • Review of Peter Capuano’s Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body. Victoriographies, vol. 7, no. 2, 2017, pp. 180-3.

      • Review of Anna Henchman’s The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 67, no. 1, 2015, pp. 76–80.

      • Review of Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes, Rain Taxi, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 2015, p. 25.

      • Review of Juliet Patterson and Rachel Moritz’s Elementary Rituals/Dirge, DIAGRAM, issue 14, no. 1, 2013.

      • Review of Kate Bernheimer’s The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, Rain Taxi, Online Edition, Summer 2012.

      • Review of Amy King’s Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country, Tarpaulin Sky, Spring 2008.

      • Review of Mark Nowak’s ¡Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight!, Tarpaulin Sky, Fall 2006.


       

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