My book of short stories The Invisibles won the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award and was published by the University of Georgia Press in October oof 2012. A translation will be published in France by Les éditions Albin Michel in early 2014. My fiction has appeared in magazines such as Five Points, The Cincinnati Review, The Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse,and Copper Nickel, as well as in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008. I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where I teach Creative Writing and Literature.