C.V.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Meeting the Dead. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Whispers in Dust and Bone. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2003.
Short Stories
“Tragic Voices.” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas 8 (2008): 57-68.
“Pink Dolphin.” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas 8 (2008): 53-56.
“I’m Connie Chung.” Taj Mahal Review 7.1 (June 2008): 114-120.
“Things Roman.” Concho River Review 22.1 (Spring 2008): 14-21.
“White Rabbit.” Taj Mahal Review 6.2 (December 2007): 96-101.
“Lesser Mountains.” Texas Review 27.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2006): 18-33.
“Tahini Is a Sesame Seed Paste.” Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts 19 (2006): 23-27.
“Miracle Night.” Arkansas Literary Forum 7 (2005) <http://art.hsu.edu/alf/open.html>.
“Love in Dead Languages.” Amarillo Bay 7.2 (August 2005) <www.amarillobay.org>.
“No Good in Goodbye.” Nebo: A Literary Journal 23.1 (Fall 2004): 42-44.
“God & Son.” South Dakota Review 40.1 (Spring 2002): 110-119.
“White Sands.” New Texas 2001, Ed. Donna Walker-Nixon and James Ward Lee. Belton, Texas: University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press and Center for Texas Studies, 2001: 37-38.
“Looking for a Miracle.” Amarillo Bay 4.3 (November 2001) <www.amarillobay.org>.
“So Close Yet So Far Out.” RE:AL 26.1 (Spring 2001): 122-31.
“Last Train to Machu Picchu.” Southwestern American Literature 26.1 (Fall 2000): 59-67.
“An Epistle of My Heart.” Concho River Review 14.1 (Spring 2000): 8-18.
“Killing Kittens.” Salt Fork Review (April 2000): 6-8.
“Tea With Jesus.” Chiron Review 58 (Summer 1999) 26-27.
“Moonlight.”Free Times 24 Feb. 1999-6 Mar. 1999: 12-13.
“Leslie Pictured.” Concho River Review 12.2 (Fall 1998): 12-23.
“Slow Light.” At The River’s Side 13 (Spring 1996): 40-45.
“Flight of Doves.” Yemassee 2.1 (Spring 1994): 6-15.
“Earline’s Combustion.” The Point 5.52 (February 1994): 12-19.
“Samson Four.” Savannah Literary Journal 1.1 (1993): 63-71.
“Someone to Watch Over Me.” The Georgia Guardian 2.24 (June 1993): 11.
“Ring Around the Moon.” The South Carolina State 15 November 1992: 3-4.
“Trust Jesus.” South Carolina State 24 August 1990: E11.
“Chasing the Invisible Man.” Texas D.P.S.O.A. Magazine 1.4 (August 1988): 74-75.
“An Overload.” Analecta 14 (Spring 1988): 16-19.
Non-fiction
“Why I Write.” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas 8 (2008): 51-52.
Rev. of Conversations with Texas Writers, Eds. Frances Leonard and Ramona Cearley. JASAT: Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 38 (November 2007): 70-71.
Foreword. Undertaker Tales: The Human Side of Heartbreak. By Wayne Bethard. Dallas: Atriad Press, 2005.
Rev. of Nevin’s History, by Jim Sanderson. Texas Review 26.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2005): 136-137.
Rev. of Where Skulls Speak Wind, by Larry D. Thomas. Texas Review 26.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 154-156.
Rev. of Let’s Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers, Eds. Sylvia Ann Grider and Lou Halsell Rodenberger. Pembroke Magazine 37 (2005): 284-286.
Rev. of A Multitude of Sins, by Richard Ford. Iron Horse Literary Review 4.1 (Fall 2002): 127-128.
Rev. of Amazing Grace, by Larry D. Thomas. Iron Horse Literary Review 3.2 (Spring 2002): 133-34.
Rev. of Contagion and Other Stories, by Brian Evenson. Iron Horse Literary Review 2.2 (Spring 2001): 125-26.
Rev. of The Delinquent Virgin, by Laura Kalpakian. Iron Horse Literary Review 2.1 (Fall 2000): 121-22.
AWARDS AND HONORS
1st Annual Short Story Competition, Angelo State University Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, Winner, 2008.
Contemporary Authors Volume 242, Thomson Gale, 2006
Starcherone Fiction Prize, Starcherone Books, Finalist, 2005
Starcherone Fiction Prize, Starcherone Books, Runner Up, 2004
Spur Award for Best Short Fiction, Western Writers of America, Winner, 2004
Foreword Magazine Short Fiction Book of the Year, Silver Medal, 2003
John Gardner Fiction Book Award, SUNY Binghamton, Finalist, 2003
Chancellor’s Fellowship, Texas Tech University, Fall 2000-Spring 2003
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Graduate Fiction Award, 3rd place, 2002
Allan L. Carter and Olga Meloy Carter Memorial Scholarship, Texas Tech University, 2002
Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2001
Newton Award in Creative Writing, Winner, Texas Tech University, 2001
Free Times Colossal Short Story Contest, 1st place, 1999
Heekin Group Foundation Fiction Writing Fellowship, Finalist, 1996
Heekin Group Foundation Fiction Writing Fellowship, Semi-finalist, 1995
South Carolina Fiction Project, Winner, 1992
South Carolina Fiction Project, Winner, 1990
Bates Writing Award, Honorable Mention, University of South Carolina, 1989