- governance work done with, among others, my tremendous former colleague Lisa Looney was featured as a case study in a leadership toolkit for institutional change
- recommended a great book via The Common‘s Friday reads
- AWP Seattle! introduced a PEN panel with American Book Award-winner Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Booker Prize-nominee Leila Mottley … moderated a panel on the author-editor relationship (with Emily Everett, Talia Kolluri, Farah Ali, and Allison Wyss) … co-hosted an amazing Thursday night Seattle Public Library reading (Veliz Books, BOA, and Noemi) … and thirty other things. An amazing week!
- THE HOLE IN THE OCEAN, a short fiction debut from Kathleen March, a retired professor of Spanish, is now out from Veliz–the second book (and second amazing one) I’ve been lucky to work with as Veliz’s fiction editor
- our amazing little press, Veliz Books, gratefully received a capacity-building grant from CLMP
- honored to’ve been part of an AWP Virtual Pedagogy panel on workshop culture and dealing with inflammatory pieces with three entirely amazing writers, Venita Blackburn, Prageeta Sharma, and Elena Pasarello
- SPLENDID ANATOMIES, a remarkable collection by Allison Wyss, is out from Veliz Books (first fiction book I’ve had the great chance to serve as editor for in my role with Veliz)
- thanks to Full Stop for sharing my review of Vi Khi Nao’s very much mostly excellent THE VEGAS DILEMMA
- VERY EXCITING! I’m grateful to’ve joined the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Board of Directors after being elected as the Western Region Chair. The term runs 2021-2025, and I hope to honor the writers and programs in my region and beyond by listening, doing outreach, and working hard for us all.
- VERY EXCITING 2.0! I’ve been lucky enough to join up with Veliz Books to serve as their fiction editor. Veliz Books is dedicated to discovering, publishing, and promoting original literature from authors writing in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or Galician, and is also committed to publishing translations into English. Submissions this year begin March 5 and run through May 5.
- Summer of Sandwich happened!
- The Greensboro Review was kind enough to do a retrospective feature on my story “First Comes Love,” published in their issue 104
- Sunday October 25, 5-6:30pm: Santa Monica Review Fall 2020 issue celebration featuring readings of works in the issue (including mine)
- Michael Czyzniejewski was kind enough to take a look at Desert sonorous in his amazing Story366 blog
- recent stories in “The Battle of Los Angeles” in The Gettysburg Review (also excerpted in Lit Hub), “On the Delegation of Household Chores: Two Competing Theories and More Theories” in The Sycamore Review, “I Want My MFA” in Nimrod, and “Prior Learning Assessment” in Quarter After Eight
- Tuesday March 24: faculty lecture series at Executive Dining Room (topic: discussion of novel-in-progress)
- Tuesday November 5: Jentel Presents 5:30pm artist panel at SAGE Community Arts in Sheridan, Wyoming (interviews with residents here)
- review of Termination Shocks (Janice Margolis), Famous Children and Famished Adults (Evelyn Hampton), and Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea (Sarah Pinsker), The Aquifer/Florida Review
- LitFest Pasadena: Sunday May 19 4:30pm panel on literary publishing (with editors from TAB, Foothill, and Anastamos)
- recent stories: “Stoics” in The Gettysburg Review, “The House Pet” in Yemassee Review, and”Referential” in Sequestrum: for the last, the kind editors interviewed me about the story-writing process
- The amazing people at The Chattahoochee Review invited me to take part in their Contributor Spotlight series, discussing “Samaritan”
- In conjunction with an invited reading at Pasadena Community College, interviewed for their lit mag Inscape; a few days earlier, an article in the Reno News & Review, this time in conjunction with a panel at the Nevada Humanities Lit Crawl
- Studies in the Hereafter reviewed in Rhizomatic Ideas, Diagram, Blotterature, and Kirkus; interviewed about the novel in both the museum of americana and The Rumpus
- four recent stories: “Samaritan,” in The Chattahoochee Review (pp-nom), “Ossetra,” in Joyland Midwest, “Transits,” published in The Gettysburg Review, & “Santa Anita,” published in The Common
- story “California” anthologized in both WATCHLIST and LA Fiction Anthology; interview about the story here
- “How the night came” art/written collaboration with Gabrielle Rosenstein published by 7×7.la
- “Situation and Aftermath,” a critical-craft essay touching on contemporary fiction, Shakespeare, and more, published in Full-Stop
- at Lit Hub, got Lost in the Basque Country with my cuz Gabe Urza
- three great reviews of my debut collection, Desert sonorous, in Booklist Reader, Foreword, and El Paso Times