Education: B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis (1986)

M.F.A., Columbia University (1990)                                                                                    

Ph.D., Rugers University (2003)     

Interests: Fiction Writing 

Selected Works:  Like the Appearance of Horses (Bellevue, 2023); The Bear (Bellevue, 2020); The Signal Flame (Scribner, 2017); The Sojourn (Bellevue, 2011); Editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edger Irving Williams, 1902-19012 (FDU Press, 2009); A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).