Publications

• Full Cry (National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press,
      2013),
  
  • Winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition
    
• I've Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State University
     Press, 2012)
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition

Assistant Professor, Stockton State College

• Manifest (Switchback Books, 2013)
  
  • Winner of the Gatewood Prize
• By a Year Lousy with Meteors (Dream Horse Press, 2012)
  
  • Co-written with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, winner of the Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize
    
• People Are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus Books, 2010)
  
• By a Year Lousy with Meteors (Dream Horse Press, 2012),
  
  • Co-written with Ariana-Sophia Kartsoni
    
  • Winner of the Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize

Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University

• Tomorrowland (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2013)
  
• The Nighttime Novelist (Writer's Digest Books, 2010)

Briggs-Copeland Lecturer, Harvard University

• No Planets Strike (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Asheville

• The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television, Co-Editor (Lexington Books, 2013)

Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University

• Never Come Back (NAL, Penguin, 2013)
  
• The Hiding Place (NAL, Penguin, 2012)
  
• Cemetery Girl (NAL, Penguin, 2011)
  
• The Girl in the Woods (Delirium Books, 2009)
  
• The Condemned (Delirium Books, 2008)
  
• Co-editor, Commutability: Stories About the Journey from Here to There (Main Street Rag, 2010)

• Broken Helix (Mid-List Press, 1997),
  • Winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award
    
• Sober on a Small Plane (Wind Publications, 1995)
  
• Note for a Missing Friend (Slapering Hol, 1991)   
  
  • Winner of the Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition
    
• NEA Fellowship

Instructor, Penn State Harrisburg

• Travel & Leisure (Poetry Society of America, 2012)
  
  • Winner of the National Chapbook Fellowship

Senior Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts

• Handsome (Deconstructed Artichoke Press, 2011)
• Seabook (Meduza Press, 2000)
• Sister Island (Blackberry Press, 1987)

Visiting Professor, Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University

• Something Like Jasmine (Tau Publishing, 2012)
  
• Wounded Angels (Blissfool Books, 2009)
  
• The Earth Moves at Midnight and Other Poems (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2003)
  
  • Author of 17 books and a Franciscan priest

Affiliated Faculty, Union Institute & University

• New to the Lost Coast (Gold Wake Press, 2014)  
  
• To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar (Pudding House Publications, 2006)

Associate Professor, Bluffton University

• Riders on the Storm (Bottom Dog Press, 2010)

All Shook Up: Collected Poems About Elvis (University of Arkansas Press, 2001)

Associate Professor,
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash

• Divided Lives (St Martin's Press/Macmillan, 2000)

Assistant Professor, University of Tampa

• Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser, 2007), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, named Best Debut by Contemporary Poetry Review
  
• Poetry Editor, Tampa Review

Writing Fellow, Georgia Southern University

• 90 Days to Your Novel (Writer's Digerst Books, 2010)

Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University

• The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin's, 2010)
  
• Revenge of the Teacher's Pet: A Love Story (LSU, 2009)

Assistant Professor, The University of Southern Mississippi

• Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry, 2012)
  • Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
    
• Editor of Memorious

• Lungs Full of Noise (University of Iowa Press, 2013)
  
  • Winner of the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Award

Associate Professor, Milliken University

• A Palace of Strangers Is No City (Cervena Barva Press, 2011)
  
• The Dark Villages of Childhood (Midwest Writing Center, 2009)
  • Winner of the Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Prize
• If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness (White Pine Press, 2001)
  • Winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize
    
• Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent (Kent State University Press, 1996),
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Contest

Co-founding Editor, Twelve Stories

• We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2010)
  
  • Finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards for Poetry
    
  • Nominated for the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize
    
• Parts (Mud Luscious Press, 2009)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College

• Sancta (Ahsahta, 2012)
  
• Shadowland (Ohio State Univ. Pres, 2008)
  
  • Winner of the OSU Press/The Journal of Poetry
    
• A Belonging Field (Salt, 2002)

Associate Professor, Alfred University

• Roleplay (Dream Horse Press, 2012)
  
  • Winner of the Orphic Poetry Book Prize
    
• The Man Under My Skin (River City Publishing, 2005)
  
• History in Bones (Kent State University Press, 2001)
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition

Associate Professor, Lambuth University

• Body Soul (Lummox Press, forthcoming)
  
• Home Truths (Alsop Review Press, 2006)

Professor, Georgia State University

• Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press, 2007)
  
• Spot in the Dark (Ohio State University Press, 2004)
  
  • Winner of the Journal Award
    
• Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press, 1999)
  
  • Winner of the Gerald Cable First Book Award
    
• Balloon Heart (Wind Publications, 1997)
  
  • Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award

Assistant Professor, Columbus College of Art and Design

• Holy Island (Gold Wake Press, 2014)
  
• How We Come Ashore (Dancing Girl Press, 2013)
• Ghost of Fashion (WordTech Communications, 2009)
  
• I Dreamed Last Night I Got on a Boat to Heaven and By Some Chance I Had Brought My Dice Along (Permafrost, 2006),
  
  • Winner of the Susan Blalock Award

Assistant Professor, Columbus College of Art and Design

• The Rub (Elixir Press, 2014)
  
  • Winner of the Editors' Prize
• Aloha Vauderville Doll (Dancing Girl Press, 2013)
• Intaglio (Kent State University Press, 2006)
  
  • Winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
• By a Year Lousy with Meteors (Dream Horse Press, 2012)
  
  • Co-written with Cynthia Arrieu-King
    
  • Winner of the Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize

Assistant Professor, Marymount University

• Words We Might One Day Say (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2010)
  
  • Winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Contest
    
• Author of over 20 children's books and teacher resources

Associate Professor, Utica College

• Fastened to a Dying Animal (Pudding House Press, 2010)

Associate Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology

• Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2012)
  
  • Cowritten with Denise Duhamel.
    
• Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009)
  
• Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Press, 2008)
  
• ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010)
  
  • Co-written with Denise Duhamel

Professor, Saint Joseph's University

• Catherine (Poppy/Little Brown, 2013)
  
• This Bed Our Bodies Shaped (Able Muse Press, 2012)
  
• Jane (Poppy/Little Brown, 2010)
  
• Skin (Texas Tech University Press, 2002)
  
  • Winner of the Walt
    
  • McDonald First Book Poetry Prize
    
• Co-editor of Contemporary American Poetry (Longman/Penguin, 2004)
  
• This Bed Our Bodies Shaped (Able Muse Press, 2012)

Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, CUNY

• Oracle (W. W. Norton, 2014)
  
• Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande, 2006)
  
• World’s Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2001),
  
  • winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize
    
• Co-editor, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006)
  
  • Whiting Award

• PLAN/K (Gold Wake Press, 2014)
  
• Re- (Ahsahta Press, 2011)
  
• Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009)
  
• Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press, 2008)
  
• Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl Press, 2008)

Lecturer, Ohio State University

• Cities Lit by the Light Caught in Photographs (H_NGM_N Books, 2012)
  
• The Space Between Stars (Kent State UP, 2008)
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition

Instructor and Advisor, Western Kentucky University

• How to Survive Graduate School and Other Disasters (Main Street Rag, 2011)                 
  
• Co-editor, Commutability: Stories about the Journey from Here to There (Main Street Rag, 2010)

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

• Let’s Do (University of North Texas Press, 2004)
  
  • Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction
    
  • Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection

Associate Professor, University of Montevallo

• Heaven Overland (Kennesaw State University Press, 2009)
  
• The Memphis Sun (Kent State University Press, 2000)
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition

Assistant Professor, Macalester College

• Bird Eating Bird (Harper Perennial, 2009)
  
  • Winner of the National Poetry Series

Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash

• Spotlit Girl (Kent State University Press, 2009)
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition

Assistant Professor, Point Park University

• Nothing Fatal (University of Akron Press, 2010)
  
• Just One of Those Things (Kent State University Press, 2003)
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition

Associate Professor, Indiana University South Bend

• Liliane's Balcony (Rose Metal Press, 2013)
  
• For Sale by Owner (Kore Press, 2011)
  
  • Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Short Fiction
    
• Liliane’s Balcony (Rose Metal Press, 2013)

Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida

• The Heaven of Animals (The Atlantic, 2010)
  
• Lizard Man (RopeWalk Press, 2012)
  
  • Winner of the RopeWalk
    
  • Press Editor's Fiction Chapbook Prize
    
  • Winner of the Playboy College Fiction Contest

Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati Clermont College

• The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate (Pecan Grove Press, 2010)

• morefrom (Alice Blue Books, 2012)
  
• In Ways Impossible to Fold (Marsh Hawk Press, 2009)
  
  • Winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
    
• X-Ray (Flying Guillotine Press, 2008)

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

• </war> (Main Street Rag, 2013)
  
• Tongue and Groove (Main Street Rag, 2007)
  
• Liketown (Pudding House, 2007)
  
• Nickel and Diming My Way Through (Wind Publications, 2005)
  
  • Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award

Associate Professor, Maysville Community College

• Life Spiral (Finishing Line Press, 2013)
  
• Persistence of Vision (Wind Publications, 2008)
  
  • Winner of the Morehead State University New Writers Award

Associate Professor, Principia College

• The Lost Ode (Charles Towne Publishing, 2013)
  
• Inside Such Darkness (Tiger Bark Press, 2010)
  
• Heidegger’s Temple (CustomWords, 2003)

Assistant Professor, Laurentian University

• Complicity (McClelland & Stewart, 2014)
  
• Jeremiah, Ohio (House of Anansi, 2008)
  
• Crowd of Sounds (House of Anansi, 2003)
  
  • Winner of the Trillium Award for Poetry
    
• Jonah's Promise (Mid-List Press, 2000)
  
  • Winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, American College of Management and Technology (Croatia)

• Either/Ur (River City Publishing, 2002)

• Opaque Projectionist (Dos Madres Press, 2009)

• Salt (Kent State University Press, 2009)
  
  • Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
    
• Cincinnati’s Historic Findlay Market (Arcadia Publishing, 2009)

Senior Editor, WordTech Communications

• Austere Offices (Wordpress, 2005)
  
• Greater Circles (Workpress, 2001)
  
• The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of Poetry’ s- - - Place in American Culture (Edwin Mellen, 2001)
  
• The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism  (Story Line  Press, 1998)
  
• The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines (Story Line Press, 1996)
  
• Living in Cincinnati (Cincinnati Writers’ Project, 1995)

Assistant Professor, Clemson University

• The Book of Goodbyes (BOA, 2013)
  
  • Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Prize
    
• The Colony (Soft Skull Press, 2010)
  
• The Amputee's Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007)
  
• Translating the Body (All Nations Press, 2006)

Assistant Professor, Rhodes College

• The Stone Museum (Persea Books, 2014)
  
  • Winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award
    
• Circles Where the Head Should Be (University of North   Texas Press, 2011)
  
  • Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship

NEH Associate Professor, Centre College

• Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton, 2008)
  
  • Winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize
    
• The Hammered Dulcimer (Utah State University Press, 1998)
  
  • Winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award
    
  • Rome Prize in Literature

Assistant Professor, William Jewell College

• Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012)