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Professor of English
Research and teaching interests
Creative writing (fiction); popular genres (horror, science fiction, fantasy, the thriller, graphic novels/comic books); American Indian fiction
Education
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1998
M.A., University of North Texas, 1996
B.A., Texas Tech University,1994
Publications
Books
The Ones That Almost Got Away: Stories. Prime, forthcoming 2009
Ledfeather. Fiction Collective Two, 2008
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. Chiasmus, 2008
Demon Theory. MacAdam Cage, 2006
Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories. University of Nebraska Press, 2005
All the Beautiful Sinners. Rugged Land, 2003
The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto. Fiction Collective Two, 2003
The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong. Fiction Collective Two, 2000
Fiction anthologized in
Native Storiers. Ed. Gerald Vizenor, forthcoming
Horror: The Best of the Year 2007. Ed. John Gregory Betancourt and Sean Wallace. Prime Books, 2008
The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection. Ed. Ellen Datlow. St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
Ryan G. Van Cleave and Todd James Pierce, Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft. Longman, 2005
Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age VI. Cross Current Press, 2004
Writing Fiction 6th ed.. Ed. Janet Burroway. Longman, 2002
Stories for a Winter Night: Fiction by Native American Writers. Ed. Maurice Kenny. White Pine Press, 2000
Fiction published in
32 Poems, 5_Trope, Abiko Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Arts & Letters, Asimov's, Bare Root Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Big Muddy, Black Warrior Review, Blood & Aphorisms, Bordersenses, Brutarian, Bust Down the Door and Eat All The Chickens, Cemetery Dance, Clackamas Literary Review, Clarkesworld, Concho River Review, Controlled Burn, Convergence, Cutbank, Dogmatika, Doorways Magazine, Fiction Attic, Fresh Boiled Peanuts, Fourth River, Georgetown Review, Grasslimb, Gulf Coast, Iconoclast, Juked (here and here), Kaleidotrope, Literal Latte, Meridian, Minnesota Review, Mississippi Review, Native American Writers 2000, New Orleans Review, New Texas, ONTHEBUS, Open City, Passages North, Phantom, Phoebe, Pindldyboz, Pleiades, Quarterly West, Rainbow Curve, Red Fez, Rejected Quarterly, River City, Seattle Review, Sleeping Fish, South Carolina Review, Southeast Review, Southern Hum, Studies in American Indian Literature, Sundog, The Journal, The Styles, Taint Magazine (here and here), Third Coast, Vincent Brothers Review, Wordriot, XConnect, Yellow Medicine Review, Zygote in My Coffee
Marginalia
“Unrevised,” “Why Genre,” and “As I Lay Mostly Dying,” The Cult
“State of the Slasher Address,” Popmatters
“I’ll Be Back,” Dark Scribe
As interviewed by: Litblog, Slushpile, the Cult, Bat Segundo
As reviewed by: Dallas Morning News, Dread Central, Austin Chronicle, Popmatters (here and here), San Antonio Express
As featured in: Cosmopolitan
Selected honors and awards
Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction, 2006
Finalist, Bram Stoker Award, 2006
Writer’s League of Texas Fellowship in Literature, 2002
Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, 2002
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature: Fiction, 2001
Current projects and fascinations
The colors grue and bleen
Slasher films
Having a story published in each letter of the alphabet (currently missing E and U)
Destroying the non-word “OK” from American prose, and then importing "grey"
Hitting 220wpm, but without encountering any pink lights
Cryptozoology, lycanthropy, and semiotics
Finally choosing between Kirk and Picard
Writing better and better fiction