• A Fulbright Scholar and recipient of a Guggenheim Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize • Chair of University of Utah's Fiction Collective Two • Author’s work has appeared in Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and Best American Non-Required Reading • Director of Creative Writing at the University of Utah • Strong personal connections and a decade of work in both the US and Germany, providing international opportunities to promote the novel