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Most of my closest friends know that, if given another life and a different talent, I’d come back as a backup singer for a) Bob Dylan, b) Andrew Bird, or c) Josh Ritter. I say [...]

I’m not going to say it but all you writers and readers out there know what I am talking about. It’s not a short story collection. It’s not a memoir. It’s that other prose [...]

[Note: My first podcast interview went live this week! Stream it free from iTunes under the title “What the Glass Contains” or tune in at Sound Cloud right here. The interview is [...]

My first taste of Interlochen Center for the Arts occurred January, 2010 when I began my position as Writer-in-Residence for the Arts Academy. Little did I know it would lead to employment on the [...]

Sometimes, you just gotta stop what you’re doing and get down to the grand old business and love of family. Even if it means leaving your residency 4 days early, driving 3 hours, taking a [...]

Ok, so I’ll just say it: It took a long time for me to find “my people” while in residence here at Prairie Center. Part of that was due to the fact that, for most of my 10 weeks [...]

As folks know, I’ve been conducting an informal survey to get a sense for what is “quintessentially Midwestern.” Based on the previous posts and this most recent bullet list, I [...]

In just two short weeks, I’ll be introducing several authors at the Interlochen College of Creative Arts annual Writers’ Retreat (still time to sign up, with $50 off for poets and [...]