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.
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 Hal Niedzviecki’s The Peep Diaries is up on the Rumpus.
I’ll be reading at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, as part of the Babble-On reading series at Dog Eared Books.
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 Portland author Peter Rock’s new novel, My Abandonment, has been posted on the Rumpus.
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.