Associate Professor
Ellis 329, Athens Campus
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Education
B.A. English, University of Kentucky (Lexington), 1997
M.F.A. English: Fiction, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2000
Scholarly Focus
Creative Writing: Fiction
Books
The Hill Road . New York: Viking Penguin, July 2005. (collection of four long stories) *Bloomsbury published the collection in Ireland and the UK.
The Visitors . New York: Viking Penguin, March 2014. (a novel) *Bloomsbury published the novel in Ireland and the UK. Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Awards
The Story Prize, 2005 (for The Hill Road )
Whiting Writers’ Award
Book Sense Notable
Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers"
Shortlisted: Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award (for The Visitors )
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Creative Writing, Fiction
- The Short Story
- Graduate Fiction Workshop
- Introduction to Prose Fiction and Nonfiction
- Writing and Rhetoric ll
- Form and Theory of Fiction