Great news! I can finally announce that Julia Watts and I are co-editing the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ Appalachian fiction and poetry. It’ll be published by West Virginia University Press in Spring 2019. Here’s the background story. In April 2017, while I was in Morgantown to give a reading at
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Happy Summer Solstice/Litha
May you and your clan find balance on this summer solstice.
Read moreSTARTING MY SECOND SABBATICAL (OR, ON THE TRAIL OF VIKINGS)
As a tenured professor at Virginia Tech, I have the great good fortune of applying for a sabbatical every six years. In 2011, I took the calendar year off from teaching, meaning that I was reduced to half-pay, but I managed to finish my first novel, Fog, and get a
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