Join me and Eric Puchner—whose work I have always loved and that includes his brilliant new novel DREAM STATE—as we converse with Nate Brown for the Greedy Reads Lost Weekend Book Festival in Baltimore this weekend--Sunday, June 1, at 11 am.

Let's celebrate all day long!

So looking forward to my book launch on May 6 with @ovillalon.bsky.social, fabulous interviewer and editor of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, where two of the stories from ARE YOU HAPPY? first found homes.

Seeing, supporting, celebrating!

The countdown to May 6—launch day for ARE YOU HAPPY?—begins...

B & N has declared today (and tomorrow! and Friday!) ARE YOU HAPPY?-preorder-sale day. To celebrate, see below:

Working on a poetry or nonfiction project? Grant applications for the Barbara Deming Fund are accepted in January. Info below.

This is Oscar. He loves short stories also. Here is is with the 2022 Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection by Carol Roh Spaulding and the 2023 winner by Iheoma Nwachukwu. He highly recommends both of them.