Odd fact: I'm a good driver, but I've nearly run over Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise, not at the same time. Both are very short.

Another odd fact: I was born in Missoula, Montana, a birthplace I share with David Lynch, Dana Carvey, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

My short stories have appeared in Agni, The Portland Review, Happy, The Literary Review, Kenyon Review, and Gulf Stream.

My story Passage was reprinted in the Ohio University Press anthology New Stories From The Southwest. Cake, originally published in Kenyon Review, appeared in the 2008 Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, edited by McSweeney’s publisher Dave Eggers.

My essay 14 ½ Things To Do In Stockholm In The Dead Of Winter won best creative nonfiction and appeared in the fall 2004 issue of the Canadian literary journal Grain. The piece was later a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award. My essay Reunion won Prism International’s 2006 creative nonfiction contest. I've also had nonfiction pieces in New Delta Review and The Florida Review.

I wrote the award-winning film No Easy Way, which starred the fabulous Khandi Alexander.

I also co-wrote a cat humor book called Petted By The Light that is no longer in print and that you used to able to buy for a penny on Amazon.