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I'm a writer and editor based in the Cleveland area. My debut short story collection, Living Arrangements, won the 2010 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize and will be published by BkMK Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Nov. 30, 2011. My essays about writing appear in Poets & Writers and The Writer magazines.

Read more about the book here, view pictures of my cats with books and lit mags here, and read my take on truth, fiction, and the writing life here.

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Bowling Green Bound

…not for the Bowling Green subway station in New York City, as this photo I took back in March would have you believe, but Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Starting this fall, I’ll be a student and graduate teaching assistant in BGSU’s MFA program.

That means I’m leaving my editorial position here in Cleveland to spend two years writing whatever I’d like, gaining teaching experience, edit...

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