“My Love Story” is out in Epoch

The new issue of Epoch is out (vol. 58, no. 2), and it contains “My Love Story,” which I started at Stanford and finished at Iowa. You can order a copy at the Epoch website.

Reading at InsideStoryTime: July 16

For all my disappointed fans who missed the Dog Eared Books reading: I’m reading at InsideStorytime on Thursday, July 16, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The headliner is the talented, charming Josh Mohr (Some Things That Meant the World to Me).

My review of The Peep Diaries is up on the Rumpus

My review of Hal Niedzviecki’s The Peep Diaries is up on the Rumpus.

Reading at Babble-On: June 25

I’ll be reading at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, as part of the Babble-On reading series at Dog Eared Books.

Tony made this website

The writer Tony Tulathimutte designed this new website for me. Thanks, Tony!

“We’ll Rise Above the Sky” is forthcoming in Glimmer Train

My friend Justin Torres and I won first and second place, respectively, in the March 2009 Fiction Open sponsored by Glimmer Train, and our stories, “Surrender Unto Us” and “We’ll Rise Above the Sky,” will appear in coming issues of Glimmer Train. Justin is one of the stars of the Writers’ Workshop: his funny, heartbreaking [...]

My review of My Abandonment is up on the Rumpus

My review of Portland author Peter Rock’s new novel, My Abandonment, has been posted on the Rumpus.

“A Girl is Turning Ten” is out in Black Warrior Review

My first published story, “A Girl is Turning Ten,” was a finalist in the annual Black Warrior Review fiction contest and is out in Black Warrior Review 35.2.