writer, teacher, urban planner, gun violence prevention advocate
I'm thrilled to announce (quite belatedly) that my essay, "The Gun Show," which appeared in The Southeast Review (Vol. 34.2), was named a notable essay in the latest edition of The Best American Essays, edited by Leslie Jamison. “The Gun Show,” tells about my first trip to a gun show in King of Prussia, PA …
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I'm belatedly reporting here that my essay, "To Suckle on Fear," appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of The MacGuffin, a great journal out of Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. This piece is what is known as a hermit crab essay - an essay that takes the form of some other type of (usually) recognizable …
Hey, I just got done digging my car out of the ice/snow and almost forgot that today was the day that a flash essay was going live! It's called "Last Chance," and it's at Tributaries, which is an online section of the journal The Fourth River. Now, The Fourth River is a "journal of nature …
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I'm really happy to have an essay in the current issue of The Southeast Review (Vol. 34.2), among the work of many fine poets, artists, and writers of fiction and nonfiction. The Southeast Review is a literary journal run by the graduate students and a faculty advisor in the English Department at Florida State University. …
I'm so honored and excited to announce that my essay, "Detours," which appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Literal Latte has been included as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen, and released this week. This series, which has been running for 30 years, features roughly 25 essays …
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I'm thrilled to report that a new essay of mine, "Gun-Sitting," is up at Hippocampus Magazine, a really wonderful nonfiction journal based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and featuring writing from around the world. I offer my heartfelt thanks to founder and publisher, Donna Talarico, for getting this story out into the world. It is the first …
I am thrilled to report that my essay, "The Bodhisattva of Route 128" is now up at The Common Online. This essay was many years in the making, recalling my meeting H. Ballard Harris, a legendary figure who lived his life north of Moab, Utah, dispensing wisdom and small talk to travelers from his gas …
