I am the author of the story collection Refund, published by Counterpoint Press in 2015; it was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction; it was also on the shortlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, and the Longlist for the Story Prize. It was also a Los Angeles Times bestseller. A new collection, The New Order, was published by Counterpoint Press in November, 2018, and was on the Longlist for the Story Prize. I’m also the author of the novels Like Normal People, (Houghton Mifflin) which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and A Town of Empty Rooms (Counterpoint Press)._ _ My short fiction has appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Story, The Yale Review, Electric Literature, Narrative, The Harvard Review, Guernica, and The Iowa Review. My stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best and have won three Pushcart prizes. My stories “Eternal Love” and “The Fourth Prussian Dynasty” have been read in the Selected Shorts program on NPR, and my story “The Cell Phones” has been read by Levar Burton on Levar Burton Reads. I’ve received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rona Jaffe foundation. I’m also the co-editor of the nonfiction anthology Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion. I’m the Fiction Editor of the online literary magazine Scoundrel Time. I’m Core Faculty at Alma College’s Low residency MFA in Creative Writing, and teach creative writing online for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival; I also do private writing consults and coaching (more info is on my Editorial Services page.) From 2015 to 2021, I was the Visiting Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University. I’ve also taught creative writing at the University of Iowa, Tunghai University in Taiwan, the MFA programs at Warren Wilson College, Antioch Los Angeles, Chatham University, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. I’m also a Mentor in SUNY Stonybrook’s Bookends program.

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