>On the Road

>I’m taking a little trip tomorrow, down to Charlotte, N.C., for the very first Queens University of Charlotte MFA Alumni Program. In addition to some readings and panels (and much eating and drinking), the alums in attendance will be workshopping pieces with editors and agents (as opposed to the usual writers). Despite the relatively light schedule for the program, that was enough to make it interesting to me.

I’ll be working with Don Lee, editor of Ploughshares (the best literary magazine in existence, so I’m pretty excited about that). Also leading workshops are Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House, Field Maloney, an editor for The New Yorker, and agent Denise Shannon of The Denise Shannon Literary Agency.

Time permitting, I’ll try to blog from the workshop . . .

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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