Education

Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina
Bachelor of Arts, Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

Courses Taught

LANG 371: A fiction writing seminar and workshop for degree seeking students and members of the Western North Carolina community

The University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
EH 391/392 Fiction Writing: an introductory and intermediate fiction seminar.
EH 483/484/583/583 Advanced and Graduate Fiction Writing: A seminar, writing workshop, and directed-study for experienced writers of fiction.
EH 200 Intro to Creative Writing: an introductory, multi-genre writing class.
EH 226 Survey of American Lit II: This course traces the development of American Literature from 1865 to the present by studying the works of representative writers.
EH 497/589 Creative Non-Fiction Writing: A Seminar and writing workshop on the art of the contemporary creative essay.

West Virginia Wesleyan College MFA, Buckhannon, WV Visiting Faculty
ENG 520 Craft and Theory of Fiction: A fiction seminar on special topics
ENG 665 Publication Workshop: Mentoring final semester graduate students

Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, Lecturer of English; Managing Editor, Cold Mountain Review; Business Manager, Visiting Writers Series 
ENG 3652, Creative Writing: a fiction workshop emphasizing exercises and experimentation.
RC 1000, Expository Writing: a first-year writing course with research component in collaboration with the information literacy program and first-year composition.
RC 2001, Writing Across the Curriculum: a second-year writing course introducing students to writing in different genres for various academic communities.

Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC, Adjunct Professor of English and Composition
RHE 101, College Composition: a first year writing course, emphasizing critical reading, writerly process and public speaking.

Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC, Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow
WRI 120, College Composition: a required expository writing course emphasizing critical thinking, rhetoric, conventions, and writerly process.
WRI 140, Imaginative Writing: a multi-genre introductory creative writing course.
WRI 394 &395, MFA Residency: an advanced MFA and workshop course for select undergraduates.

Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, Milton Fellow, Lecturer in Creative Writing
ENG 2215, Imaginative Writing: introductory course in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
ENG 4317, Advanced Fiction Writing: a writing workshop for experienced writers of fiction in the Creative Writing concentration English major.

Columbia International University, Columbia, SC, Lecturer in English and Creative Writing
ENG 1111 Literature and Composition: required course introducing students to works of literature, critical thinking and argument, historical and contemporary texts, written and oral exercises.
ENG 3950: A faculty directed study in American literary models, historical and contemporary, and the generation and revision of creative work.
HUM 4810 Creative Writing Seminar: a fiction and poetry workshop.

Books

Father Brother Keeper. A collection of Short Stories. Winner of the 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize. Sarabande Books, February 2015.
Pathkiller as the Holy Ghost. A Novella. Winner of the Quarterly West Novella Contest. University of Utah and McNaughton-Gun, April 2015.

Stories

• The Common: Journal of Place, Idlewild, Winter 2023
• Narrative Magazine. The Bedwarmer, Fall 2022
• Shenandoah. Now There is Only You, Fall 2020
• Ecotone. Open Season, Fall 2016
• The Kenyon Review. Exit Wound, Fall 2016
• Narrative Magazine. Alluvium: A Novel Excerpt, Fall 2016
• Image Journal. A Map of the Watershed, July 2014
• Chattahoochee Review. Father Brother Keeper, Fall 2014
• Narrative Magazine. The Strength of Fields, Fall 2014
• Four Way Review. Lipochrome, Fall 2014
• Pacifica Literary Review. They Were Calling to One Another, Winter 2014
• NatBrut Quarterly. Swing Low Sweet Chicken Baby, Winter 2013
• Strangers Magazine. Mating Practices, May 2012
• Narrative Magazine. Stretch Out Your Hand, Jan 2012
• Narrative Magazine. Silas, Feb 2012
• Drum Literary Magazine. Raw Milk Fever, Spring 2010
• Dugg Dugg. It Could Even Be A Prize, Jan 2011
• The Kenyon Review Online. The Cane Brake, July 2009
• The Lumiere Reader. This is the Main Problem, March 2008
• Loom. Thin as a Needle, Fall 2007

Non-Fiction - Essay

• The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design. The Building Marked 1: A Vision of Industry in
• the South, September 2015
• Draft Horse: Journal of Work. The Building Marked 1, Spring 2016
• Cold Mountain Review. Always Rising: Art and Activism with John Luther Adams, Fall 2017
• Cold Mountain Review. Into the Bottom Land, Spring 2017

Plays - Screenwriting

Indie Grits Film Festival, Moira Angela Darling, 2013 Official Selection. Winner of the “Young Grit” award.

Articles - Reviews

• Fiction Writers Review. The Wunderkammer of Gay’s “The Lost Country,” Dec 2018
• Fiction Writers Review. Still All Honey: Tragedy in Robin McArthur’s “Half Wild,” Aug 2016
• Image Journal. Without Sanctuary: Aftermath in Contemporary American Fiction, Dec 2013
• Orion. Sjon’s ‘The Blue Fox,’ Oct 2013
• The Kenyon Review. The Southern Subjunctive of Megan Mayhew Bergman, Aug 2012
• Dugg Dugg. The Small Jaw of Elizabeth Bishop, Dec, 2011

Edited Books - Anthologies

• The Orison Anthology. Fiction Editor. Vo.10. 2025
• The Orison Anthology. Fiction Editor. Vol 9. 2024
• The Orison Anthology. Fiction Editor. Vol. 8. 2023
• The Orison Anthology. Non-Fiction Editor. Vol 4. 2019
• The Orison Anthology. Non-Fiction Editor. Vol 3. 2018
• The Orison Anthology. Non-Fiction Editor. Vol 2, 2017
• The Orison Anthology. Non-Fiction Editor. Vol 1, 2016.

Awards - Fellowship - Honors

• The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, awarded by Edith Pearlman
• The Narrative Prize
• Quarterly West Novella Contest Winner, awarded by Benjamin Percy
• Joan Beebe Teaching Fellowship at Warren Wilson College
• Milton Post-Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing at Image
• Sewanee Writers Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship
• “Distinguished Story” 2013 Best American Short Story Anthology
• Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award Long List
• Keynote Speaker, Southern Writers Symposium, Methodist University
• “Distinguished Story” 2017 Best American Short Story Anthology
• Notable Mention 2017 Best Non-Required Reading
• North Carolina Artist Fellowship (award returned)

Scholarly Activity - Grants

• Alabama Writers Conclave Key Note Speaker
• Major Grant, “Refugee Memoir Project,” Alabama Humanities Foundation
• Minor Grant, “Writers in the Schools” Alabama Humanities Foundation
• Southern Writers Symposium Keynote Speaker & Emerging Writer Contest Judge.
• Methodist University Symposium designed to encourage scholarship on southern literature and culture.
• Lee University Writers Festival Keynote. Guest teaching and reading at Lee University
• Annual Milton Lecturer, Seattle Pacific University. “The Technique of Guilt
• in Fiction” A comparative study of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Faulkner and Peter Orner.
• Fiction Contest Judge. “Arrington Creative Writing Scholarship in Fiction” at Oklahoma State University.
• Presenter, AWP 15 Conference. “Eye on the (book) Prize” A panel on preparing manuscripts for submission to national book prizes.
• My life, My Story: Project Supervisor. Service Learning Project at Warren Wilson College.

Professional Experience

Riggs Advertising Agency, Columbia, SC, Copywriter