I have a reading and book-signing coming up, for anyone in the Omaha area that's interested.

It is at The Bookworm (8702 Pacific St.) @ 1:00pm on Sunday, November 16.

I'll be reading from "Welcome Home," my story which was featured in the recent edition of Best New American Voices (Harcourt/Harvest), and signing copies of BNAV.

The Bookworm is one of the great independent bookstores in Nebraska.  It will be a good time.

Hey, all.  I'm excited to have this opportunity to join the PEN community via this blog.  Thanks are in order for everyone who made this posssible. 

A little about myself.  I'm a recent graduate of the M.A. program in literature and creative writing at Creighton University, live in Omaha with my wife Nicole and daughter Madeleine, and am currently an associate editor with Prairie Schooner.  My work has appeared in Best New American Voices, Boulevard, and fugue, among others.  Nicole Steen of Elyse Cheney Literary Associates represents my collection of short fiction (How to Die Young in Nebraska) and my novel-in-progress (The Open City). 

My intention for this blog, in addition to joining the conversion of the other authors and literary professionals here on the issues of...