I'm excited to share the release of the latest issue of Border Crossing, the online journal I co-edit with Jillena Rose and Julie Brooks Barbour as part of our work with the Lake Superior State University creative writing program. As fiction editor, I'm especially eager to share the work of the featured fiction writer this year, Saramanda Swigart, who writes the most fabulous--and feminist--historical …
I was excited to receive my contributor's copies of Southern Humanities Review, today, featuring "The Birds," first in a series of essays I'm working on about my parents' and brother's deaths--this one focusing on my father--and one of the most generous personal notes I've ever received from an editor. It is a very good feeling, …
Below is the short film, which I produced collaboratively with Lloyd Eddy (visual artist) and Joshua Legg (choreographer and dancer). It premiered at the multimedia concert, movement/text/image, on April 1, 2016 at Lake Superior State University. Such an amazing experience to collaborate with artists in other disciplines! Text: Fragments from the Alchemist's Handbook You’ll need the stone …
It's been a whirlwind semester, so far. In addition to reading and editing fiction submissions for Border Crossing with two wonderful interns, I've been teaching two courses for the first time: a course on Responding to Writing for future teachers, and an intermediate creative writing course for majors and minors that is specifically designed to help students take risks in their writing, to …
Last summer, I started editing poetry for Faerie Magazine, the lush quarterly edited by Carolyn Turgeon, which was just profiled in the Style section of the New York Times. If you haven't heard about Faerie yet, you should check out this article, which examines the magazine's "gossamer pleasures" and calls it "wonderfully curious and deeply weird." I have to say, it's been a delight to read all …
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I received news yesterday that my debut poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin, won the Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2015 Elgin Chapbook Award! The award honors the best speculative poetry chapbook published in 2013-2014. I was honored to be nominated, and I'm just plain thrilled to win! I've been writing speculative poetry since I was a kid, and I'm amazed to have …
I was excited to find the latest issue of Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism in the mail today. This issue includes two of my poems, "Instructions for Letting the Stranger into Your Bed" and "Ahab's Sister-Wives," along with poems by Ki Russell and Gregg Murray, a story by Stephen Langlois, and more! Phantom Drift is always delightfully …
I have been traveling on and off, since early May, so I only just got the chance to be amazed by this wonderful new review of Wolf Skin in the latest issue of American Book Review! Huge thanks are in order to Saara Myrene Raappana for her insightful close reading. Here's an excerpt: Reaching beyond the simple retelling or recasting …
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