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I’ll be co-hosting Slate’s Mom and Dad Are Fighting podcast on December 12, 2020. Listen on demand anytime after.

Read “Closer,” an excerpt from a new novel in progress, in the summer 2019 issue of VFR.

Learning to dance at my age has been a beautiful and strange process, which I consider in a new essay in the October issue of […]

Learning to dance at my age has been a beautiful and strange process, which I consider in a new essay in the October issue of […]

Come on out and see me along with other contributors to the beautiful new anthology Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation (Seven Stories Press, […]

…and how Midwestern (and gothic?) I am.  Read it here.

I’ll be reading from Dog and other fiction and talking about people and their pets in literature and life, and signing books, of course, at […]

I’m moderating a panel on “writing under the gun” (not a real gun but a contract) on Friday, February 10 at noon (panelists are a […]

November 15, 2016 at 7:30 PM I’ll be reading from my newest novel in progress alongside three of our fabulous MFA students: nonfiction writer Rachel […]

I’ll be reading — along with the brilliant Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas — at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on Wednesday, November 30, 2016. Miami […]

I’ll be reading from Like A Song, the winner of the 2016 Devil’s Kitchen Award for nonfiction, at the Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival at […]

A roundtable discussion, edited by Joe Oestreich, with Joe and me along with Heather Kirn Lanier and Amy Monticello (and I feel I should proudly […]