Latest News and Updates (click links for details):

• May/June/July 2013 reading tour, upcoming events:

May 25: Fusebox Reading Series, Chattanooga, TN, 7 pm.

May 29: Reading at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NYC) , 7 pm.

May 31: Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Harvard Square, 6 pm.

June 13: Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas, 7 pm.

July 6: Houston Public Libraries, Houston, Texas (details soon).

• The Fifth Lash and Other Stories remains an SPD fiction best-seller for March/April 2013.

• Debut Novel Karachi Raj, pub date Oct. 2013. Look for details soon.

• Story collection The Fifth Lash and Other Stories has been longlisted for the 2013 Frank O’Connor international short story award.

• New review of My Tranquil War and Other Poems by Kate Schapira at Pank magazine.

• Sonnets from new sonnet collection, Soraya, at Inknode.

• Harvey Hix interviewed me about My Tranquil War and Other Poems for The Conversant.

• The Spring 2013 issue of Boulevard magazine is out, containing an essay explicating plastic realism in new American fiction, the basis for the first chapter of a new book I’m writing, Plastic Realism: Neoliberal Discourse in the New American Novel.

• Thank you to everyone who came by my table at the 2013 Houston Indie Book Festival at Menil Museum.

• A terrific review of My Tranquil War and Other Poems at The Adirondack Review by Michael Ravenscroft just went up.

• Matt Borondy of Identity Theory interviews me.

• Lydia Pyne of New Pages gives The Fifth Lash and Other Stories a great review.