Projects / Publications / Events
2024
• Muse & Marketplace
• Fiction fellowship, Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow
2019
• Rusty Barn II, interdisciplinary residency, Kettering, England
• Fiction fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2018
• Tin House Summer Workshop
• “Disfiguration,” Into the Void
• The Circus of Bare Skin, finalist, Eludia Award for the Novel
• Lock & Load: Armed Fiction national tour—social media, publicity, events
- Washington
- New York
- Baltimore
- Charlottesville
- Richmond
- Greensboro
- Tampa
- Chicago
- Fredericksburg
- Asheville
- Lexington KY
- Youngstown
- Missoula
- Raleigh
- Neptune Beach FL
• With thanks to these fine independent bookstores:
- Book Cellar, Chicago
- Book People, Richmond
- Chop Suey Books, Richmond
- Greedy Reads, Baltimore
- New Dominion Books, Charlottesville
- Politics & Prose at the Wharf, DC
- Scuppernong Books, Greensboro
- The BookMark, Neptune Beach
2017
• Kentucky Women Writers Conference
• Co-editor/contributor, Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, University of New Mexico Press
• The Rusty Barn Interdisciplinary fellowship
• AWP 2017
2016
• Kentucky Women Writers Conference
• Fiction fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
• North Carolina Writers Network spring conference
• Fiction fellowship, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
2015
• Shortlist, New Millennium Writings Short-Short Prize
• “Pia's Daughter,” Shenandoah
• Co-editor/contributor, Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, University of New Mexico Press, for fall 2017
2014
• “Baudelaire's Sister at the Betty Ford,” Finalist, Tupelo Quarterly Prose Open
• Fiction fellowship, VCCA France
• Reading, KGB Bar
• Co-editor, Lock & Load: Armed Fiction (editing, rights)
• Talkback moderator, On-the-Air Radio Players:
- “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson
- “Nightfall,” Isaac Asimov
• AWP, Seattle
• Fiction fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2013
• Shortlist, NMW Short-Short Prize
• Kentucky Women Writers' Conference
2012
• Kentucky Women Writers Conference
• Vortext at Hedgebrook
• Fiction fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2011
• "Mudra," Think Small! exhibition
• "A Close Shave on Gorky Street," Big Muddy, Volume 10.2
• "Hydroplane," NMW, Issue 20
• Kenyon Review Writers Workshop
2010
• "Hydroplane," Short-Short Fiction Prize, New Millennium Writings
• Shortlist, Best American Fantasy 4
• Fiction fellowship, Martha's Vineyard Writers Residency
• Fiction fellowship, VCCA France
• Kenyon Review Writers Workshop
2009
• Story, The Georgia Review, fall issue
• Top finalist, Gival Press Short Story Award
• Fiction fellowship, The Hambidge Center
2008
• Second Prize, Hackney Literary Awards National Story Contest
• Shortlist, NMW Fiction Prize
• Novel excerpt, “Iowa Writes”
• Fiction fellowship, VCCA France
• Fiction scholarship, Tin House Summer Workshop
• Emcee, Sound & Sense, Virginia Poets at the Library of Virginia
(Claudia Emerson, Joshua Poteat, and others)
• Editor, Sound & Sense, Virginia Poets at the Library of Virginia (chapbook)
2007
• H. E. Francis Prize
• Fifth place, Nelson Algren Award
• WC&C Scholarship, Association of Writing Programs
• Fiction scholarship, Gettysburg Review Conference
• Fellowship and artist’s grant, Vermont Studio Center
• Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (scholarship finalist)
2006
• Pushcart XXX Special Mention
• Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
• Editor, Modern and Contemporary Art at VMFA
2005
• Seattle Review Fiction Prize
• Pushcart Prize nomination
• Editor, Views of Shenandoah National Park
2004
• MFA, fiction, The New School
• STYLE Fiction Prize
• Prose editor, LIT
2003
• Web del Sol’s Best of the Zines, twice
• Best American Nonrequired Reading nomination
• Prose editor, LIT, The New School Writing Program
1998
• Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
• Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Prize
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Bio
- Widely published in print and online, including Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, Willow Springs, The Diagram, Confrontation, The Rio Grande Review, The Baltimore Review, and others
- Anthologized in Sex & Chocolate and The Diagram .2 (click links on "Work" page for excerpts)
- Editor and contributor to Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, University of New Mexico Press, 2017
- Fiction fellowships at MacDowell, VCCA, Ragdale, Ucross, The Hambidge Center, The Vermont Studio Center, and others
- Member, PEN, National Book Critics Circle, Authors Guild
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