PUBLICATIONS:
* Fiction:
- "The First Wife," 2012 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, forthcoming (April 2012), originally published in New England Review, Vol. 31, Number 4, Winter 2010-11
- "The Finest Medical Attention," New England Review, forthcoming
- "The New, All-True CV," The Literary Review, forthcoming
- "Flattering Light," The Southern Review, forthcoming (Spring 2012)
- "Words That Once Shocked Us," Fifth Wednesday, forthcoming
- "Dad's Birthday," Yalobusha Review, forthcoming
- "Twelve + Twelve," forthcoming in New Stories of the Midwest (2012 edition), originally published in Glimmer Train, Fall 2010
- "How to Live," New England Review Digital, posted 2.11.2012
- "Relations," The Southern Review, Winter 2011-12
- "Ladylike," Barrelhouse, Fall 2011/Winter 2012, #10
- "The Driver," American Literary Review, Fall 2011
- "Litany: Four Men," Massachusetts Review, Vol. 52, #2
- "The Goddess Complex," Notre Dame Review, Fall/Summer 2011, #32
- "The River," TriQuarterly Online, current issue, Summer 2011 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize!)
- "Beach Vacation," The Southern Review, Summer 2011, Vol. 47, #3
- "A Woman on a Corner," Pleiades, Vol. 31, #2
- "Roger Weber Would Like to Stay," The Literary Review, Vol. 54, #3 (also nominated for a Pushcart Prize!)
- "Fortune," storySouth, current issue, Spring 2011
- "The First Wife," New England Review, Vol. 31, Number 4, Winter 2010-11
- "The Prettiest Girls," Ploughshares, Vol. 36, #4, Winter 2010-11
- Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (story collection), University of Massachusetts Press, November 2010
- "Passion!", New South, Vol. 3, #2, Summer 2010
- "Eliza's Hair," Notre Dame Review, Summer/Fall 2010, #30
- “Twelve + Twelve,” Glimmer Train, Fall 2010, #76
- "Student, Teacher," Pleiades, Vol. 30, #2
- “Five Rooms,” New Ohio Review, #7, Spring 2010
- “For Once in Your Life,” South Dakota Review, Fall 2009 (released March 2010)
- “Interview with the Second Wife,” New England Review, Vol. 30, #4, 2009 - 2010
- “Quality of Life,” The Best American Short Stories 2008, Guest editor: Salman Rushdie, Series editor: Heidi Pitlor; originally appeared in New England Review, Summer 2007
- “Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry,” New Ohio Review, Spring 2009, #5
- “Clown Testimonies,” Crazyhorse, Summer 2008
- “By the Way,” Other Voices, Winter 2007-8 (final issue, All Chicago Writers)
- “These Things Happen,” South Dakota Review, Winter 2006
- “The Virginity of Famous Men,” Cream City Review, Vol. 31.1, Spring 2006
- “Furious Weather,” South Dakota Review, Winter 2005
- “The One Great Day of Mr. Beaumont’s Life,” River City (now The Pinch), Summer 2004
- “What It Was,” Phoebe, Spring 2004, Vol. 33, #1
- “Richard on Richard: the Imaginary Interview,” Red Rock Review, Fall 2004, #16
- “Optimism,” Other Voices, #39, Fall 2003
- “Both Eyes,” Meridian, Spring 2003
- “Immortal,” Massachusetts Review, Vol. 44, # 1, Spring 2003
- “Joie de Vivre,” River City, Winter 2003
- “This Parrot Is Hilarious,” New England Review, Fall 2002
- “Know-it-all,” Phoebe, Fall 2002, Vol. 31, #2
- “Body of Water,” 580 Split, #4, 2002
- “Mr. Eiffelstein,” South Dakota Review, Spring 2002
- “A Ladder or a Bridge,” River Styx, #61, Fall 2001
- “Worried,” Northwest Review, Vol. 39, No. 2/2001
- “All Young Girls Are Promiscuous,” Laurel Review, Winter 2001
- “I Want to Marry You,” Third Coast, No. 12, Fall 2000
- “Magritte at a Cast Party for Romeo and Juliet,” Greensboro Review, Fall 2000
- “Pretty Little Woman,” Laurel Review, Fall/Winter 1999
* Poetry:
- “People Who Forget To Tie Their Shoes”—Pleiades, Vol. 23, #2, 2003
- “Buddhist Monk in the Candy Shop”—Pleiades; Vol. 22, #1, 2002
- “Looking the Joke” and “Broken Aubade”—Third Coast, #10
- “Wind Is a Pilgrim”—The Comstock Review, 2000
- “Magritte Imagines a Maze”—Sycamore Review, Issue 12.2, Summer/Fall 2000
- “Romeo & Juliet Happy in the Twentieth Century”—Mudfish, #11, 2000
- “Fifteen Hundred Clowns in One Room”—Columbia Poetry Review, Spring 2000
- “In the Musée Rodin”—Poet Lore, Vol. 94, #3, Fall 1999
- “Art of Conversation”—Calyx, Winter 1998-99, Vol. 18, #2
- “Refugee”—Poet Lore, Vol. 93, #2, Summer 1998
- “Evening Fire”—Poet Lore, Vol. 92, #1 Spring 1997
- “In Morning Light”—The Comstock Review, Spring 1998, Vol. 12, #1
- “Driving at Night”—Cimarron Review, #123, Spring 1998
- “Listening to Music in Bed”—The Comstock Review, Fall 1997, Vol. 11, #2
- “Walking on Tiptoe”— The Comstock Review, Spring 1997, Vol. 11, # 1
- “Collective” & “Sentimental Butchers”–Puerto del Sol, Summer 1997
- “Anniversary”—Artful Dodge, No. 32/33
- “Body Holds”—Hawaii Review, Fall/Winter 1997, Vol. 21, #1
- “Wine-Tasting”—Minnesota Parent, November 1997
- “Concerto”—River Styx, #50, 1997
- “Giant in Love”— Laurel Review, Vol. 31.1, Winter 1997
- “If Camus Had Asked Me to Write a Love Scene,” Black Warrior Review, Vol. 22, #1
- “She Is Married” and “Rolling”— Laurel Review, Vol. 31, #2
- “Entry”—Cream City Review, Vol. 22, #1
- “Faith”—Cream City Review, Vol. 19, #1
- “Surprise Party” and “Earth in the Universe’s Catalog”—Poetry East, Spring 1996, #42
* Non-fiction:
- Essay, “Our Dogs Days of Summer”—Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting ‘Til Next Year, Published December 2008, editor Donald Evans (a Chicago Cubs-themed prose & poetry anthology)
- Book reviews in F-News (School of the Art Institute newspaper)—Bridget Jones’ Diary, September 1999; Birds of America, October 1999; Best American Short Stories 1999, February 2000; Pastoralia, September 2000.
- Movie reviews in the Indiana Daily Student—A Perfect Murder, 8 June 1998; Six Days, Seven Nights, 15 June 1998; Dirty Work, 18 June 1998; Dr. Dolittle, 2 July 1998
Activities and Honors:
*2010 New England Review nominee for fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference
* AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Short Fiction Prize contest winner: Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, a story collection to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press, late 2010/early 2011, selected by final judge Allan Gurganus
* Guest Fiction Editor, Crazyhorse, Spring 2009
* Shortlisted for Best American Non-required Reading 2008: “Quality of Life”
* Special mention Puschart Prize Anthology XXXIII: “Quality of Life”
* 2nd place winner of Glimmer Train’s June 2008 Fiction Open: “Twelve + Twelve”
* Nominee for the Pushcart Prize: “Quality of Life,” “Both Eyes,” "Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry," and “Clown Testimonies” (stories), and “Buddhist Monk in the Candy Shop” (poem)
* Volunteer writer for Gildagram, the quarterly newsletter at Gilda’s Club Chicago, 8/06 – present
* 2003 Recipient of Illinois Arts Council fellowship for poetry
* 2003 New England Review nominee for tuition scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
* Shortlisted for the O’Henry Prize Story Anthology 2001: “I Want to Marry You”