University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Student, Comparative and World Literature

Illinois Distinguished Fellow

About

Currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, I also hold an MFA from Ohio State University. For the academic year 2008-09, I was a visiting assistant professor at Ohio Wesleyan University. My non-fiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, International Poetry Review, The Literary Review, Natural Bridge, New Letters, North Dakota Quarterly, A Public Space, and The Southeast Review, among others. My plays have been produced at Ohio State University and Louisiana Tech University. I am the author of a full-length collection of short fiction, From the Crooked Timber, three poetry chapbooks—The Mutable Wheel; Lucid Bodies and Other Poems; and A Vulgar Geography—and I co-edited (with Kyle Minor) The Other Chekhov.