I was born and raised in Kansas City, and I earned my MFA in fiction writing at Wichita State University and my PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I was awarded the 2015 Charles Johnson Fiction Prize at Crab Orchard Review, and my work has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Harpur Palate, BULL, Wigleaf, The Laurel Review, Sport Literate, and South Dakota Review, among many other places. My debut story collection, The Spoils, was published in 2017 with Switchgrass Books. I'm an Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, and I'm the Fiction Editor of Southern Indiana Review. I live in Evansville, Indiana with my wife and son.

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