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Selected Works

1. Novel
Winner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

A finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
2. Short Stories
Originally published in The Literary Review; winner of the Charles Angoff Award; reprinted in the anthology Visiting Hours
Originally published in Redivider
3. Essay
Originally published in Gently Read Literature
Originally published in Michigan Quarterly Review

The Very Idea: on David Shields's Reality Hunger

Click to read this essay on realism and fragmentation in literary writing today.
Originally published in Gently Read Literature