At Knox College, creative writing majors write a senior thesis, and they can have an “outside reader.” Chad Simpson emailed me and asked if I would be the outside reader ... Read more

At AWP in 2011, I was on a panel entitled “Linking It Up: Working with Story Cycles, Linked Collections, and Novels in Stories” with Cliff Garstang, Dylan Landis, and Anne Sanow. I ... Read more

This is the biggest room I’ve ever read to. Sure, I know most of the people were there to hear Dan Chaon and Michael Czyzniejewski. But still, it was cool. ... Read more

This is the best book club I’ve ever visited, and it was right across the street from my house. The club is called “Glenda Says Read This,” and they gave ... Read more

Oh my God. Look at them?! Aren’t they the cutest? It was like talking to a room full of my grandmas. They were so nice, and it was 103 degrees ... Read more

Many thanks to Travis DiNicola for asking me to read at Indy Reads Books when they opened up a few years ago. I met Travis when he interviewed me for ... Read more

This reading meant a lot to me because I was introduced by my friend Hilary Barton Billman, an old and dear college friend. She was in the workshop where I ... Read more