Lecturer in English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing, was selected for New York City Lit 50 Writers of Note. Her book Blind was chosen for the Illinois Reads Selection and the Library Guild Selection.
Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, published Blind (Penguin 2014). She received a 2014 MacDowell Writing Residency and a Best Fiction 2014 Nomination from the Young Adult Library Services Association.
Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, had her collection of short stories, Everyone Remain Calm, chosen as an Editor’s Pick on CBS Chicago’s Best New Chicago Books.
Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, won the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize and had her book The Irrationalist shortlisted for the Griffin Prize.
Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Howard Foundation fellowship for creative nonfiction for his work in progress, Vessels: A Memoir .
Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division, published Luminous Epinoia (The Cultural Society, 2010). He also edited John Taggart’s Is Music: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).
