Writing Faculty

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, Brown University. Author of Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva (Glad Day Books, 2001), chronicling his experience as a non-Jew teaching English as a second language to Yiddish-speaking Hasidic boys at a yeshiva in Brooklyn; has published stories in numerous anthologies and reviews, including The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, Global City Review, The Breast, and Fairleigh Dickinson Review; on the faculty of Eugene Lang College; works for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, where he has initiated numerous documentary projects; conducted hundreds of life history interviews with gay cops, retired vaudevillians and showgirls, ironworkers, immigrants, and, most recently, people affected by the events of September 11 and veterans recently returned from the war in Iraq. He worked as an educator and project designer on Columbia’s “Telling Lives Oral History Project.” This project, which was launched in eight classrooms in two middle schools in New York City’s Chinatown, culminated in seven books, two documentary films, and a multimedia exhibit. He served as editor of three of the books, producer of the documentaries, and curator of the exhibit. He is currently working on an oral history project and multimedia exhibit for the Bridgeport (Connecticut) Public Library, as well as an oral history of the war in Iraq. His memoir, Mary, Queen of Immigrants, will be published in 2006. SLC, 2004—

BFA, MA, University of Iowa. Essayist and creative nonfiction writer; author of The Boys of My Youth, a collection of autobiographical essays, as well as essays/articles published in magazines, journals, and anthologies. Recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. SLC, 2000–2005; 2007–

Author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, which won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. Her third poetry collection, A New Hunger, was selected as an ALA Notable Book in 2008. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her poems have appeared in The Washington Post, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, Harvard Review, and many other publications. She is the editor of four anthologies: Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars; Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles and Renegades; Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City; and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences. With her husband, poet Kurt Brown, she translated a selection of poems entitled The Plural of Happiness, by the Flemish poet, critic, and essayist Herman de Coninck. She also translates American poetry into French, and Flemish poetry into English. SLC, 2001-

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of Sandman’s Dust, Stories of an Imaginary Childhood, While the Messiah Tarries, After, Signs and Wonders, Strange Fire, and A Faker’s Dozen; editor of Neurotica, Nothing Makes You Free, and Scribblers on the Roof. Works have been translated into half a dozen languages and frequently anthologized; winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and other prizes; stories published in Antaeus, The Paris Review, and other magazines; essays published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and other newspapers. SLC, 1993—

MFA, Columbia University. Poet, Brooklyn poet laureate, and author of Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers; co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008). Poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, and Sonora Review, among others. Recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, and The Van Lier Foundation, among others. SLC, 2005—

AB, Harvard University. Author of A Chance Meeting (Random House, 2004), a nonfiction book tracing a chain of 30 American writers and artists who knew or influenced or met one another over the period from the Civil War to the civil rights movement; winner of the 2003 PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Essays in The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney’s, DoubleTake, Parnassus, and Modern Painters and in 2003 Best American Essays and 2003 Pushcart Prize anthologies. Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. SLC, 2003–

BA, Mills College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Poet; author of Ruin (Alice James Books, 2006) and The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, 2012); recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Work has been published in Isn’t it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave Books, 2004) and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (The University of Iowa Press, 2004). SLC 2008—

AB, Brown University. MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University. Writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, she teaches courses in illness and disability memoir—as well as narrative, health, and social justice—at Columbia University’s Program in Narrative Medicine and in the Health Advocacy graduate program at Sarah Lawrence College. Author of a memoir, a book of folktales, and co-editor of an award-winning collection of women’s illness narratives, Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies. She teaches prose in the “Writing the Medical Experience” summer workshop at Sarah Lawrence. SLC, 2001—

Author of more than 30 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including a recent book of poems, Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides. His book, Cemetery Nights, won the Poetry Society of America’s 1987 Melville Cane Award. Received a Guggenheim fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Taught at a dozen colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa, Boston University, and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Recently published his first collection of short stories, Eating Naked: Stories, two stories appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1995 and 1999; poetry collection, The Porcupine’s Kisses, published by Penguin in fall 2002. SLC, 2003—

MFA, Brown University. Poet; author of The Maverick Room; “The Good Junk” (from Take Three #1); two chapbooks, The Genuine Negro Hero and Song On; and the forthcoming Quotes Community: Notes for Black Writers. Co-founder of the Dark Room Collective and the recipient of a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers Award, as well as fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Tin House, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Callaloo, and The Best American Poetry, 1997 and 2001. SLC, 2006–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, City College of New York. Author of the short story collection Don’t Erase Me, awarded the Art Seidenbaum Award of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the John C. Zachiris Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction; stories anthologized in The Best American Short Stories of the Century; Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; The Blue Light Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love; and Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present; recipient of grants from the Fulbright Association, the German Academic Exchange (D.A.A.D.), the City University of New York MAGNET Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts (Literature fellow for 2004). SLC, 1996–

BA, Drew University. Wrote The New York Times “County Lines” column for six years and a book, A Cold-Blooded Business, based on a murder case he covered in The New York Times, which Kirkus Reviews called “riveting.” Produces syndicated online video column for TheStreet.com, often a lead feature on Yahoo! Finance. Served as editor-in-chief of Fertilemind.net; twice named “Best of the Web” by Forbes Magazine. Awards include the Silver Award in 2007 from the League of American Communications Professionals; named the best journalism critic in the nation by Talking Biz Web site at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication. When not writing or teaching, serves as a firefighter in Hastings, New York. Next book coming out in Spring 2012 on firefighters. SLC 2010—

BA, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. MFA, Columbia University. Author of the long poem, The New World, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in poetry; A World That Will Hold All the People, essays on poetry and politics; Today: 101 Ghazals (2008); the long poem, Dialogue with the Archipelago (2009); and fiction published in The Kenyon Review, The American Voice, and The Paris Review. Recipient of The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in the Essay and of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. SLC, 1994-

BA, University of California-Berkeley. MA, City University of New York. Author of Whistling and Rosalind: A Family Romance; stories published in journals including The Transatlantic Review, Ploughshares, Feminist Studies, The Massachusetts Review, The New England Review, and in the book anthologies Women in Literature, Powers of Desire, The World’s Greatest Love Stories, and elsewhere in the United States and France; nonfiction published in the Village Voice and elsewhere; recipient of Lebensberger Foundation grant. SLC, 1985–

MA English Literature, University of Delaware. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Special interest in photography, visual art, and mixed media. Photographer, painter/mixed media artist, poet; author of Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010), The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011), and Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose, forthcoming 2011). Recipient of fellowships, including Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Cave Canem Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, New York State Summer Writers Institute, and others. SLC 2011—

BA, Harvard College. MFA, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Poet; author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000); Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004); Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, a New York Times Notable Book of 2008, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and a children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel (Soft Skull Press, 2007). Contributing editor for jubilat and BOMB. Has taught at Warren Wilson, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Houston. SLC, 2004–

BA, Harvard College. MFA, University of Michigan. Author of the novel Swimming Across the Hudson; short stories in DoubleTake, Ploughshares, Southern Review, North American Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere; nonfiction in The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Mother Jones, and elsewhere; grants from PEN and Michigan Council of the Arts. SLC, 2000–

A Brooklyn-based, independent, radio/multimedia documentary producer, transmission sound artist, and educator, her stories air nationally and internationally on National Public Radio, the BBC, and on numerous shows, including: This American Life, Radio Lab, Marketplace, Morning Edition, Studio360, and many others. A Peabody award-winning producer, she has also received Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow, and Third Coast International Audio Festival awards. A transmission artist with free103point9, her work has been exhibited at UnionDocs, Chicago Center for the Arts, and other venues. She has taught classes and workshops at Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Smith College, Columbia University, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; for years, she was the director of radio at Brooklyn College. She is a co-creator of Mapping Main Street, a collaborative media project documenting the nation’s more than 10,000 Main Streets, which was created through AIR’s MQ2 initiative along with NPR, the CPB, and the Berkman Center at Harvard University. Her work has been funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Association of Independents, the Arizona Humanities Council, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. Currently, she is a Rosalynn Carter for Mental Journalism Fellow and will be making a multimedia documentary about preteen anorexia in partnership with Ms. Magazine and NPR. SLC, 2010—

BA, Manhattanville College. MA, Columbia University. PhD, University of Wisconsin. Author, Still Waters in Niger, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune; the French translation, Eaux Tranquilles, was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review, among other publications, and have won a number of literary awards. The Anointed, published in DoubleTake, was included in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize XXV, and The Pushcart Book of Short Stories. An excerpt from her recently completed novel, Who Occupies this House, appeared in a recent issue of Ploughshares. SLC, 1991—1994; 1997—

BA, State University of New York-Purchase. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Author of the novel, L.I.E.; his short fiction recently appeared in McSweeney’s, Post Road, Unsaid, The Collagist, The Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere; his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, and Gastronomica (and elsewhere). His work has frequently been anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy, 2008. SLC, 2002—

BA, Oberlin College. MFA, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Poet; author of Translating Mo’um (Hanging Loose Press, 2002) and Dance Dance Revolution (W. W. Norton, 2007), which was chosen for the Barnard New Women’s Poets Series; recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Fulbright grant for South Korea; work has been published in Pushcart Prize anthology and New Asian American Anthology, The Next Generation, among others; essays and articles published in the Village Voice, Guardian, Salon, and Christian Science Monitor. SLC, 2006–

BS, University of Windsor. MFA, Columbia University. Poet; author of The Good Thief, selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series; editor, with Michael Klein, of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic; author of What the Living Do; recipient of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poet Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Mary Ingram Bunting fellowship from Radcliffe College, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation, and the Guggenheim. SLC, 1993–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Columbia School of the Arts. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. NCPsyA, Westchester Institute. Special interests include Jungian studies and religion; author of When Orchids Were Flowers, This Perfect Life, and Wind Somewhere, and Shade, which received the Gradiva Award; most recently published in Ploughshares, The Salt Journal, Luna, and The Sun; recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Award. SLC, 1987–

Harvard College. Fiction writer and video-maker; author of A Different Drummer, Dancers on the Shore, A Drop of Patience, dem, Dunfords Travels Everywheres, and stories and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Esquire, Mademoiselle, and Saturday Evening Post; awards and grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. SLC, 1989–

BA, University of Minnesota. MFA, Vermont College. Author of House of Heroes and Other Stories; stories published in Nimrod, Northern Lit Review, Redbook, and First; anthologized in the United States, Japan, and England; recipient of awards from PEN/Nelson Algren, Whiting, and Katherine Anne Porter and of a Bush Foundation fellowship. SLC, 1992–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, George Mason University. Poet. Author of four books of poetry: The Endarkenment (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and The Splinter Factory. Poems published in many anthologies, including Best American Poetry, New (American) Poets, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Washington, DC, Commission for the Arts. SLC, 2001–

BA, Tufts College. MPhil, Columbia University. Novelist, short-story writer, and writer of travel literature. Author of the novels Crossroads, The Waiting Room, The Night Sky, House Arrest, Acts of God, and Revenge; the short-story collections Vanishing Animals and Other Stories, The Bus of Dreams, and The Lifeguard Stories; the travel memoirs Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone and Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail; and an anthology of the travel literature of women, Maiden Voyages, Angels and Aliens: A Journey West, and The River Queen. A book about the Mississippi River is forthcoming (Henry Holt and Company). Recent work in Antaeus, Boulevard, and Epoch; recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Creative Artists Public Service Awards. SLC, 1994–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Author of the novels The Dylanist, Starting Out in the Evening, A Window Across the River, and Breakable You. SLC, 1998–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Taught at the 92nd Street Y and New York University; her short story, Alcestis, appeared in The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love; her fiction work has also appeared in the anthology Mending the World with Basic Books, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 (New York University Press) and The Heretics Bible (Free Press). Her first novel, Knee-Deep in Wonder, won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award. Her second novel, The Book of Charlemagne, is forthcoming (Free Press/Simon & Schuster). SLC, 2003—

BA, Harvard. Author of nine books of poetry (under “D. Nurkse”), including The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island, The Fall, The Rules of Paradise, Leaving Xaia, and Voices over Water; poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly; recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, and two awards from The Poetry Foundation. SLC, 2004-

BA, Columbia University. MA, University of California-Berkeley. Author of Rescue, short fiction and poetry; Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, memoir and social analysis; Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, history. Fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International, and elsewhere. Essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, AGNI, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and New Labor Forum, among others. Recipient of the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from Columbia University, the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society, and the DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. SLC, 1997; 2002–

BA, St. John’s University. MA, Georgetown University. Teaches a graduate workshop at Manhattanville College. Author of six collections: Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner, and his chapbook won the Ledge Poetry Prize; Ready to Eat the Sky, published by River City Publishing as part of its new poetry series, was a finalist for the 2005 Independent Publishers Books Award; In the Eyes of a Dog was published in September 2009 by New York Quarterly Books. Another collection, The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, will appear in 2011 from Black Lawrence Press. Poetry has appeared in many anthologies, including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, and Contemporary Poetry of New England. Nominated for four Pushcarts and has appeared in Verse Daily. Poems and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines, including: Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Yankee, Hayden’s Ferry, Columbia, and North American Review. SLC, 1991–

BA, Dartmouth College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Latest novel, The Border of Truth (Counterpoint, 2007), weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter’s awakening to the history and secrets of her father’s survival and loss. Loverboy (Graywolf, 2001/Harcourt, 2002) was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Lover-boy was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Most recent collection of poems, Swoon (University of Chicago Press, 2003), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. SLC, 1996–

BA, Hampshire College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Author of short-story collection, See Through; fiction in magazines and journals, including Bomb, Post Road, McSweeney’s, Nerve, and Black Book, as well as in the anthologies 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Lost Tribe: New Jewish Fiction from the Edge, Found Magazine’s Requiem for a Paper Bag, and Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (forthcoming). Recipient of a Henfield Prize in 1995, a UAS Explorations Prize in 1997, and a Rotunda Gallery Emerging Curator grant for work with fiction and art in 2001. Codirector of Pratt Institute’s Writers’ Forum, 2005-present; curator of Barbes reading series, Brooklyn; founder and president, Dainty Rubbish record company. SLC, 2002—

Author of three poetry collections: Mother Quiet, Perfect Disappearance (winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize, New Issues Press), and At the Gate. Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, AGNI, Fence, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and other journals. Anthologized in The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia University Press) and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (University Press of New England), among others. Teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Founding editor and director of Four Way Books, an independent literary press in New York City. SLC, 2005—

BA, University of Michigan. MS, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. MFA, Yale School of Drama. Fiction writer, critic, editor, playwright; author of the novel The Ticket Out and editor of anthologies Great American Love Stories, World Treasury of Love Stories, and The Eloquent Short Story: Varieties of Narration; reviews and articles published in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune Book World, Ms., Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review; plays produced at Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut; recipient, Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing; served on Book-of-the-Month Club’s Editorial Board of judges and as the Club’s senior editorial adviser. SLC, 1988–

BA, Oberlin College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of Wild Kingdom and The Long Meadow (poetry collections); former editor at The New Yorker; essayist and book reviewer in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, and various literary quarterlies; recipient of the James Laughlin Prize of the Aca-demy of American Poets, MacDowell Colony’s Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement, The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowship and area studies fellowships from Columbia University. SLC, 1998-

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, New York University. Author of two story collections, Ideas of Heaven (finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize) and In My Other Life, and four novels, The Size of the World, Lucky Us, In the City, and Household Words; winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award; short stories anthologized in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, The Story Behind the Story, The O. Henry Prize Stories (2007 and 2003), and two Pushcart Prize collections. Recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. SLC, 1985–

BA, Brown University. MFA, Columbia University. Author of the short-story collection, Voodoo Heart (Dial Press). Stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Epoch, Tin House, and One Story, among other journals. SLC, 2006—

MA, The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. His first novel, The Circus of the Earth and the Air (Harcourt), was a “New and Noteworthy Paperback” for The New York Times, a nominee for the Barnes and Noble Discover award, a finalist for the World Fantasy award, and featured in People Magazine and Vanity Fair. John Barth called it “a vivid, sustained, and scarifying dream.” In 2001, The Washington Post Book World said of his second novel, “Tattoo Girl [St. Martin's Press] is as much about being sad as it is about being terrified, and there Stevens has worked a charm that will keep you in your seat and reading, even when you’d rather not, even when you wish for something to break the spell.” The novel was also published in the United Kingdom, where it appeared on bestseller lists; it was later translated into Japanese, French, and German. In 2004, his third book, Kissing Your Ex (Penguin), was a finalist, along with Jodi Picoult, Elizabeth Berg, and Ann Tyler, for the Romantic Times Best Women’s Fiction of 2004. SLC, 2011—

BA, Vassar College. MA, Middlebury College. Editor at The New Yorker, 1992-2002. Book editor, 2001-present. Book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Review of Books. Edited books include Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Mostly True by Molly O’Neill, Aftermath by Joel Meyerowitz, The Surrender by Toni Bentley, Send by William Schwalbe and David Shipley, King’s Gambit by Paul Hoffman, and Violent Partners by Linda Mills. SLC, 2004—

BA, MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Fiction writer and essayist; recipient of fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hall Farm Center for Arts, and In Our Own Write; winner of I.O.W.W. Emerging Artist Award; and finalist for the Henfield and American Fiction Awards and Pushcart Prize. SLC, 1996–