English

Specialization

Creative Nonfiction

Biography

Yale University, AB (1984)
University of Montana, MFA (2006)

Formerly acquisitions editor at Oxford and Duke University Presses and admissions officer at Duke.

Recent Publications

Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
The Pig and I, Penguin/Plume/University of Nebraska Press 2009.
Admissions Confidential, St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education and Running Times magazine.

Courses Taught

Creative Nonfiction workshop
Form and Theory of Nonfiction
Senior Creative Writing Capstone
Graduate Electives in Nonfiction
Form and Theory of Fiction