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, AmherstÂ
Selected Publications
Short Fiction
-  “A Naked Horse.†The Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2022
- “A Banal Story.†The Literary Review, Summer 2017
- “O Luxury.†The Texas Review, Spring/Summer 2017
- “Who Would Be the Man, Who Would Be the King?†Cosmonauts Avenue, April 2015
- “The Real Right Great Good.†Spolia, February 2015
- “Seven Greyhounds.†The Cupboard, single-issue chapbook, June 2013
- “Three Greyhounds.†Gulf Coast, Volume 25, Number 1/ Winter/Spring 2013
- “Leave.†New England Review, Volume 30, Number 4/ 2009–2010
- “Edson to 1958.†Swink, August 2009
- “The Last Dead.†Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2008
- “Delta Interval.†Harper’s, June 2004
- “Delta Interval.†StoryQuarterly, Fall 2003
Short Nonfiction
-  “Liquid Repetition: On the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling†Literary Hub, November 2023
-  “Everything Dies Baby, That’s a Fact: On the Elusive Train Dreams of Claire Denis and Mike Brodie†Literary Hub, September 2022
- “How to Fit Balzac’s Magnificent Universe onto the Big Screen?†Literary Hub, June 2022
-  “This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac.†Literary Hub, April 2021
-  “White Light: An Anecdote to Be Tipped into a Book.†Agni Online, May 2020
-  “Jenny Offill: The Doomy Bits.†Guernica, March 2020
-  “Review of C.D. Wright’s Casting Deep Shade.†Northern Woodlands, Winter 2019
-  “Reality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg.†Literary Hub, September 2018
-  “The Generic Spectacular: An Interview with Jim Shepard.†The Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2018
-  “Reading Henry Dumas After Trayvon Martin.†Literary Hub, November 2015
-  “The Ephemeral Real: Six Short Essays on Film.†The Los Angeles Review of Books, August to October 2014
-  “When Bad Reviewers Go Good.†The Paris Review Daily, November 2012
-  “Ten Tangents for Satantango.†The Collagist, August 2012
-  “Your Eyes Deceive You: Claire Beckett at the Wadsworth Atheneum.†The Paris Review Daily, August 2012
-  “O. Henry’s Afterlife: Thoughts and Ephemera.†The Rumpus, June 2010
-  “The Rumpus Interview with Brad Watson.†The Rumpus, March 2010
-  “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Lindisfarne.†Agni Online, August 2009
-  “An Interview with Lydia Davis.†Meridian, May 2008