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Education

B.A. English, University of Kentucky (Lexington), 1997

M.F.A. English: Fiction, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2000

Scholarly Focus

Creative Writing: Fiction

Books

The Hill Road. New York: Viking Penguin, July 2005. (collection of four long stories) *Bloomsbury published the collection in Ireland and the UK.

The Visitors. New York: Viking Penguin, March 2014. (a novel) *Bloomsbury published the novel in Ireland and the UK. (Starred Review) Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

Awards

The Story Prize, 2005 (for The Hill Road)

Whiting Writers’ Award

Book Sense Notable

Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers"

Shortlisted: Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award (for The Visitors)

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Creative Writing, Fiction
• The Short Story
• Graduate Fiction Workshop
• Introduction to Prose Fiction and Nonfiction
• Writing and Rhetoric ll
• Form and Theory of Fiction