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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 […]

You can see as well as hear the Friday, May 27 episode of All Sides Weekend/Books on WOSU 89-7 NPR News here.

“All of Us,” a new short story–the first in many years!–is out in Conjunctions.

April 19, 2016 at 7 PM Dudley Bailey Library

Long ago–early in the days of “American Idol”–I wrote an essay about watching it. It’s in my 2015 book of essays, Like A Song, but […]

Come celebrate with Michelle Herman on the publication day of her new novel, Devotion, at the JCC of Greater Columbus Tuesday, March 1, 2016  @ […]

I’ll be reading in LA, offsite at the AWP Conference, along with three of my dearest friends & colleagues: poets Marcus Jackson and Maggie Smith […]