RESUME


  • publications

    • Novels:
      • Private Parts, 1992, Longstreet Press
      • Keeper of the House, 1994, 2994, St. Martin's Press (paperback, 1995, SMP); named a Top 10 Book of 1995 by Charleston, SC, Post-Courier, continuously in print since 1994
    • Short Fiction:
      • Published in The Paris Review, Epoch, Crescent Review, South Carolina Review, The Sun, The Oxford American, and elsewhere. Finalist, Carve magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Award, 2003
    • Anthologies:
      • Inheritance: Selections from the S.C. Writer's Project (Hub City Press)
    • Criticism:

  • honors and awards

    • Winner, 1988 South Carolina Fiction Project
    • Screening Judge, Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 1993 and 2002
    • National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in literature, 1994-95
    • Subject of 30-minute profile on SC-ETV, The Writer's Circle, 1996
    • Keynote speaker, Bennington College convocation, 1999
    • Panelist/judge, S.C. Fiction Fellowship, 2001
    • MacDowell Colony fellow, 2001
    • Judge, Petigru Review fiction contest, 2007

  • education

    • Coastal Carolina University
      • B.A. English, summa cum laude, 1977
    • Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College
      • M.A. English, 1988
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  • professional experience

    • Teaching:
      • Bennington Writing Workshops, 1995
      • Wildacres Writing Workshops, 1996
      • Bennington July Program, 1999
      • Bennington College MFA in Writing Program, 2002
      • Faculty member, Bennington College, 2002-
    • Editorial:
      • Editor/writer, Bennington magazine, 1994-2002
      • Faculty editor, plain china: The Bennington Literary Magazine, 2009
      • Faculty editor, plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing, a national anthology, 2009-


Assorted additional work experience: secretary in a steel mill for 12 years, real estate brokerage owner, advertising copywriter and editor.
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