I’ll be reading three times for the U.P. Book Tour this year: Friday, August 2 at 7 pm, Beaver Island Public Library. Monday, August 19 at 6 pm at the George W. Spindler Memorial Library in Woodland, Michigan with other The Way North writers. Tuesday, August 20 at 6 pm at Schuler Books in Okemos, Michigan with other The…
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Border Crossing news
Border Crossing has gotten some nice press lately, including being featured in an article about northern Michigan literary culture with PANK, Dunes Review, and Pithead Chapel. Our interns were recently featured in the Sault Evening News, Cheboygan Daily Tribune, and on the LSSU website.
The Way North
My prose poem, “Rotkäppchen,” appears in The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works edited by Ron Riekki for Wayne State University Press this month, along with work by some amazing U.P. affiliated writers, including Julie Brooks Barbour, Chad Faries, Eric Gadzinski, Jane Piirto, Janeen Rastall, and Catie Rosemurgy, to name a few. Check it out!…
Border Crossing v2
The new website for Border Crossing is up, and you can order copies of Volume 2. The launch party for Volume 2 will be held at Bayliss Public Library on November 8, 2012.
U.P. Book Tour
I will be reading at the Manistique Public Library on June 25, 2012, from 1:00-3:00 PM. as part of the U.P. Book Tour and hosting an event at the Rock River Cafe in Chatham on June 27, 2012 from 6:00-8:00 PM.
New job
The good news: I’ve accepted an amazing new job at Lake Superior State University, where I’ll be an assistant professor of English and creative writing. I’ll also get to co-edit a literary journal, Border Crossing! The bad news: we have to sell our house and move up to Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, before the fall semester starts!
Reading at Chelsea’s
I’ll be reading at Chelsea’s in Baton Rouge on Wednesday, Sept. 2 as part of an LSU Alumni Reading.
Signed with Literary Agent
The ink is dry: I just signed an agency agreement with Kathleen Anderson of Anderson Literary Management!