I am a fiction writer and an instructor of composition, creative writing and rhetoric. My short fiction has appeared in Calaveras Station, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, The Homestead Review, and Ophelia Street. My first novel, The Blue Stoop, was a finalist in the 2010 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. I earned my MFA from the University of South Carolina in 2011, and currently am an instructor at Sacramento City College.