I’m not telling you about this so that you can come, too. Sorry, but it’s for Ball State students, faculty, and staff only. I’m showing you what I’m doing so ... Read more
On Friday, I took a bunch of my students to a presentation about a master’s program offered at Ball State: an M.S. in Information and Communication Sciences. Why would I ... Read more
Because I’m a fan of the Laura Moriarty’s novel The Chaperone, I “liked” her author page. That’s how I entered a drawing and got my hands on an ARC of ... Read more
This essay in Vox, “The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students,” rang so many bells for me. A little backstory I’m from a long line of working-class people. My ... Read more
My #AWP17 panel was at 4:30 PM on the second day of the conference, just at the point where all the introverts need to escape to their rooms and the ... Read more
2016 is Indiana’s bicentennial year, and I’m really honored to have work in two projects that celebrate my home state. The book First, there’s this anthology of contemporary Indiana writers. ... Read more
Less than a quarter of the people who start NaNoWriMo actually finish the challenge and write 50,000 words. Your chances of finishing a crappy first draft of a novel in ... Read more
I’m going to be honest with you: You can have a great career with your English major—but you’re going to have to hustle. Let me explain what I mean by “hustle.” ... Read more
Since I published this essay about Cole Porter and growing up “different,” I’ve been getting a lot of emails from people saying “I’ve never had the ... Read more
This blog post is for everyone in any English department that’s experiencing falling enrollments. For most of my career, I didn’t think too much about where my students came from. ... Read more