Department of English

After attending Portland State University’s Haystack Writing Workshop in Oregon with the late Ursula K. Le Guin, I took my PhD from UC Berkeley; my current projects include a critical examination of literary “success” in America, and a sequence of novels (one received a UF Rothman Summer Grant). I’m the author of the novels ASTEROIDEA (2020), THE WARPAINT TRILOGY (2012-14); OTHER NATURE (1995) which was long-listed for the Otherwise Award; THE-BOY-WHO-WAS-THROWN-AWAY and SNOW-EYES (1985/87). I’ve had short stories in New Letters, Asimov’s, Moveable Type and SF&F, and critical essays in Genre, Genders, differences, American Literature, among others. I’ve held fiction residencies at the Writer’s Colony, the VCCA, Noepe Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Norcroft, Provincetown and Dorland. I was an NEH Scholar at UCLA, and the author of critical books CONCEIVED BY LIBERTY (1995) which was short-listed for the MLA first book prize, and HOUSEHOLD WORDS (2006).