From The Geometries of Fiction: Essays on Structure in Creative Writing

• Angles on Dialogue
  first published in The Writer’s Chronicle (AWP), vol. 39, no. 4
• On Inspiration: Thomas Wolfe, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver
  first published in The Writer’s Chronicle (AWP), vol. 42, no. 2

Essay-Memoirs: On Writers and Writing

• On Hayden Carruth: The Poetics of Social Utility
  first published in From Sorrow’s Well: The Poetry of Hayden Carruth,
  edited by Shaun T. Griffin; University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2013
• Raymond Carver in the Workshops
  first published in Carve magazine, premier print edition, Fall, 2013

Two Uncollected Stories

• Second Chances
  first published in Southwest Review vol. 93, no. 1
  winner of a Mcginnis-Ritchie award for the short story
• A Woman Who Touches Fame
  first published in Boulevard no. 67, vol 23, no. 1