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Publications and Awards

Books:
Black Elvis, short stories (Flannery O'Connor Prize winner),
forthcoming, University of Georgia Press
Hot Springs, novel, forthcoming, Tin House Books
Bluestown, novel, New York, NY, 1996, St. Martin’s Press; paperback ed., New York, NY, 1997,
Gryphon Press Dangerous Men, short stories (Drue Heinz Prize winner), Pittsburgh, PA, 1995, University of Pittsburgh Press
Short Stories:
"Man Under," forthcoming, Third Coast
"Black Days," New England Review, vol.30 #2, 2009
"The Naked Man," The Gettysburg Review, vol. 22 #2, Summer, 2009
"Imaginary Tucson,” Shenandoah, vol. 59 #1, Spring/Summer, 2009
“Another Coyote Story,” Crazyhorse #72, Fall, 2007
“Cowboy Honeymoon,” Ploughshares, Aug., 2005 “Santorini,” Roanoke Review, Spring, 2005 “Valet Parking,” Failbetter.com, Summer, 2004 “Jimi Hendrix, Bluegrass Star,” Prairie Schooner, Spring, 2004 “Great American,” The Antioch Review, Spring, 2003 “Iowa Winter,” Ploughshares, Spring, 2002 “Hot Springs,” Ploughshares, Spring, 2001 “Black Elvis,” Ploughshares, Winter, 1999-2000 “The Undercard,” Colorado Review, Fall, 1993 “In Between Stations,” The Lullwater Review,” Fall, 1992 “Wheelchair,” chosen for the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project; also broadcast on NPR’s “The Sound of Writing, May, 1992 “El Diablo de La Cienega,” Poet and Critic, Vol. 22, No. 4, Summer, 1991 “Kool Master D. and Short Time,” The Florida Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall, 1991 “Adultery,” Kansas Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 3, Summer, 1990 (published 1991) “The Handstand Man,” Quarterly West, Winter/Spring, 1991 “Mighty Pup,” The Iowa Journal of Literary Studies,” Spring, 1991 “Erin and Malcolm,” Sonora Review, Spring/Summer, 1990 “Taxes,” The Crescent Review, Vol. 7, No.2, Spring, 1990 “Magister Ludi,” Crazyhorse, No. 37, Winter, 1989 “Bluestown,” The North American Review, Dec., 1989 “Bluestown,” The Chicago Tribune, Sept., 1989 “Big Grey,” West Branch, No. 16, Winter, 1986
Anthologies:
Best Underground Fiction, Chicago, 2005, Stolen Time, Scott Miles, Jeff Mikos, eds.
20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001, University of Pittsburgh Press, John Edgar Wideman, ed.
The Best American Short Stories 2000, New York, NY, 2001, Houghton Mifflin, E.L. Doctorow, ed.
It’s Only Rock and Roll, Boston, MA, 1998, Godine, J. Eidus, J. Kastan, eds.
Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball Stories, New York, NY, 1996, Breakaway Books, D. Trudell, ed.
Short Takes: Fifteen Contemporary Stories, Portland, ME, 1992, J. Weston Walch, Monica Wood, ed.
Non-fiction:
Interview with author Frederick Busch for Ballantine Reader’s Circle paperback edition of Busch’s novel, North, 2006
Writing Exercise for Write Now: Writing Exercises by Today’s Best Writers and Teachers, Tarcher (Penguin, USA), Sherry Ellis, Ed., 2006
“Meshmeccan,” (creative non-fiction) Blue Mesa Review #16, Spring, 2004
Book reviews in the Cleveland Plain Dealer of Unless, by Carol Shields (May, 2002) Remember Me, by Lauria Hendrie, and Welding With Children, by Tim Gautreaux, (Fall, 1999)
“Revision Strategies for Short Stories,” The Writer, October, 1996; reprinted in The Writer’s Handbook, Boston, MA, 1997, The Writer, Inc., S. Burack, ed.
Awards and Honors:
Flannery O’Connor Prize, 2008
Parthenon Prize for Fiction, 2008 Maryland State Arts Council Fiction Award 2004 Distinguished Stories list, Best American Short Stories, 2003, 1990, and 1986 Special Mention, The Pushcart Prize, 2003, 1990 and 1986 Maryland State Arts Council Fiction Award, 2002 Best American Short Stories 2000 selection (E.L. Doctorow, Judge) Heekin Group Tara Fellowship for Short Fiction, 1999 Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award for Best First Book of Fiction, 1996 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 1995 (Charles Baxter, Judge) NEA Literary Fellowship, 1995 – 1996 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, 1992 – 1994 Iowa Journal of Literary Studies Fiction Award, 1990 Iowa Arts Council Fiction Award, 1990 Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, The Chicago Tribune, 1989 James Michener Fellowship, 1988 – 1989