The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales

Just finished making a web page for my forthcoming fiction collection from Brooklyn Arts Press—the title is now finalized as The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales. Many thanks to Carol Guess, Anna Joy Springer, CAConrad, and Kevin Killian for the kind words! Watch this space for more information about the book.

'Socialites' featured at matchbook

Check out 'Socialites'—the short story I just featured on a letterpress broadside—over at matchbook, a journal dedicated to brief narrative.

The Story of How All Animals Are Equal

Grist is offering their new issue for only $12 during their Hot Off the Press Sale. Order it at its discount price and read 'The Story of How All Animals Are Equal', a short fiction piece that will be featured in my collection forthcoming from Brooklyn Arts Press. 

Writing for Visual & Material Genres

I'm really excited to teach a class at the UI Center for the Book this Spring: Creative Writing for Book Arts: Writing for Visual & Material Genres. The interdisciplinary class is for both writers and visual artists, and asks how material and visual forms present, comment on, and/or merge with textual content. In what ways do we balance readability and individual expression when writing and designing published forms? The class will emphasize tactility and mark making, looking at literature as a physical process, as well as a material product. It will explore a variety of book-related genres and media, including broadsides, chapbooks, concrete poetry, comics, zines, and artist’s books.

Above is a poster I letterpress printed to promote the class. I used craft foam, a scratch-negative photopolymer plate, a found copperplate block, and metal type (see the lockup below, thanks to Pamela Olson!).