reader / writer
Enormous thanks to the Loft Literary Center and the Jerome Foundation for supporting my novel-in-progress by selecting me as a recipient of a 2015 Emerging Writer's Grant, along with seven other excellent writers. I am honored to be in such good company. Hopefully this grant will help bump me from the "emerging" category into... what's next? Fledgling?
I will be teaching a single-serving class for adults in Seattle on August 2nd, 2015, from 1-4pm. We will explore what makes written dialogue "effective" via verbal storytelling and in-class writing exercises, and more information can be found right here.
In September, I'll be reprising this as a six-week night class at the Loft here in Minneapolis, so don't be sad if you're a landlubbing Minnesotan rarin' to soak up my chatter-centric wisdom.
The class starts September 16th, and is held on Wednesdays from 6-8pm. You can sign up here!
My story "Word of Mouth," originally published in the summer 2014 issue of The Threepenny Review, will appear in the 2015 O. Henry Prize Stories Anthology, due out in September from Anchor Books!
My most recent essay, Other People, is up at Okey-Panky, along with a hard-hitting interview.