I’ll be speaking and teaching my first writing classes at the Foothill Writers’ Conference on July 9-12.
In September, I’ll be attending Jentel, an artist residency program on a cattle ranch in middle-of-nowheresville, Wyoming, near Sheridan. I’ll be working on my novel and sitting astride cattle for a month with five other artists and writers.
My story “Soft Landing” will be appearing in the next issue of Frank, a Paris-based literary journal, early 2009-ish, along with an illustration by Justine Lai.
Originally titled “Why Not to Write”
Reporting from the scene of 2008’s iPhone 3G launch in San Francisco
A short story about manliness, as distinct from “manhood”, “maleness”, or “masculinity”
The story behind my misprinted story in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
The first chapter of a novella about brains, literal and figurative
“Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska” will be appearing in the 2008 O. Henry Prize Stories on May 6th.
Figure skaters and their injuries. Publication forthcoming in Frank, 2009