BOOKS

 

2009

We Agreed to Meet Just Here: A Novel  (New Issues)

  • Winner AWP Prize for the Novel
  • Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Work of Fiction
  • Finalist 2010 PEN USA Award for best fiction 
2001

 In the Shadow of Our House: Stories (SMU Press)

  • Featured on NY Times Book Review "First Chapters" website
  • Forward Magazine Bronze Award for Best Story Collection
  • San Antonio Express News Best of Texas Fiction 
STORIES
2009
 "We Wanted Embers" Callaloo (Vol 32, No. 2)
2008
 “It Will Pass Through Us” American Short Fiction (Summer)
2007 "We Agreed to Meet Just Here" Gettysburg Review (Spring 20:1)
2007 "Film Footage of the Smallest Gestures" Bat City Review (Forthcoming, December)
2007 "Orson Welles' Blue Brocade Vest", Western Humanities Review (Spring)
2007 "Nostalgia" Anthology: Literary Austin, Edited by Don Graham (April)
2003 "See How Small" Southwest Review (May)
2002 "Indians" Boston Review (Oct/Nov) Finalist Texas Institute of Letters Award, Best Story of 2002
1999 "In the Shadow of Our House" Boston Review (Oct/Nov)
1998 "Prodigal Fathers" Gulf Coast 10:2 (Sun) Nominated for Pushcart
1997 "Worry" Other Voices 27 (Fall/Winter)
1996 "Nostalgia" Other Voices 25 (Fall/Winter)
1996 "Riverfest" Whetstone 13 (Winter)