Background

I hold an MFA from Columbia in Fiction and have been awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship, a Summer Literary Seminars Fellowship, and a Vermont Studio Center Writer’s Grant. My fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It has also been a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize, the UNO Press Lab Prize, the Mid-List Press Novel Award, the Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and The Ray Bradbury Short Story Fellowship. My publications include the Chicago Quarterly Review, The Irish Echo and The New York Times.