Selected CV
PUBLICATIONS
Books
A Shared Voice: Paired Tales by Writers of Texas and the Carolinas. Eds. Tom Mack and Andrew Geyer. Beaumont: Lamar University Press, 2013. Forthcoming.
Dixie Fish. Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press, 2011.
Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin. Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press, 2010.
Meeting the Dead. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Whispers in Dust and Bone. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2003.
Short Stories
“Café le Coq.” Concho River Review 26.1 (Spring 2012). Forthcoming.
“Lips Like Pink Elephants.” Agave! Eds. Ashley Brown and Nathan Brown. Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press, 2011. 62-68.
“Lament for a Larcenist.” descant 50 (2011): 76-77.
“Jelvis.” Texas Soundtrack. Ed. Terry Dalrymple. Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press, 2011. 147-161.
“Sugar Britches.” Texas Told’em. Ed. Laurie Champion. Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press, 2010. 1-11.
“The Comforts of Home.” Taj Mahal Review 7.2 (December 2008): 78-80.
“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.
“Love Grudge.” descant 52 (2008): 78-80.
“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
“Adventures with Seamus Heaney and My Mother-in-Law.” For the Love of a Dog. Ed. Betsy Teter. Spartanburg: Hub City Press, 2012. (Forthcoming).
“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
Texas Institute of Letters, 2012.
Breakthrough Rising Star, USC Office of Research, University of South Carolina, 2012.
Gary Wilson Award for Short Fiction, descant, 2011.
Batchelor Emerging Writers Series, Barton College, Featured Fiction Fellow, 2010.
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.
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, Winner, 1999.
Heekin Group Foundation Fiction Writing Fellowship, Finalist, 1996.
South Carolina Fiction Project, Winner, 1992.
South Carolina Fiction Project, Winner, 1990.