Q: What is your area of specialty?
A: My graduate degrees and areas of interest are in creative nonfiction and fiction.
Q: What was the title of your master’s thesis or dissertation?
A: My MAW thesis, a collection of essays, was titled My Father’s Ashes and my MFA thesis, a collection of short stories, was titled Baptized in Black Water.
Q: What is your most recent publication?
A: My most recent publications, all in the latter half of last year, were in Chautauqua, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Broad River Review.
Q: What is your favorite assignment to assign?
A: I don’t know that I necessarily have a favorite assignment. Generally speaking, though, I try to assign work that gives students a deeper sense of humanity, that widens their worldviews.
Q: What was the last book you read?
A: Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Q: What are your favorite events on campus?
A: I most enjoy Words to Say It (our visiting writer series), any of the sports events, and the Farmer’s Market on Prince Lawn.
Q: Where is your favorite place to eat on campus?
A: If I had the time, my favorite place to eat on campus would probably be one of the tables near Wall Pond, but I’m usually scarfing down a brown-bagged lunch in my office between classes.
Q: What do you enjoy most about CCU?
A: The people—colleagues and students alike.
