Degrees

• M.F.A. Columbia University, 1993
• B.A. Princeton University (magna cum laude), 1983

Books

Stories

• “Bilbao,” TriQuarterly 132 (2008)
• “Mary M.,” Five Points (Winter 2006)
• “The Plant Hunter,” Seed Magazine (July/August 2004)

Essays and Reviews

• "But I've Got Ovid," Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2016)
• "Ancient Narrative Now," Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 23.2 (Fall 2015)
• "Catoptrica" Studies in Literary Imagination (Fall 2016)
• Review of Anne Carson’s NOX. “A Year in Reading,” www.themillions.com (19 December 2011)
• “Why I Was Driven to Drive,” Washington Post (22 May 2010). Reprinted in Minneapolis Star Tribune, Charleston Daily Mail, Dallas Morning News, Portland Press Herald,
• “This Life,” YOU Magazine, Mail on Sunday (U.K.) (20 September 2009)
• “Two Fathers Too Few,” International Herald Tribune (10 June 2009)
• “Some Pointers for Palin,” Boston Globe (19 May 2009)
• “Swapping Fathers, Swiftly,” New York Times (1 March 2009)
• “The Third Victim in Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser” (peer reviewed), The Germanic Review (Spring 2006)
• “Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut”: A Masque in Disguise” (peer reviewed), Postscript: Essays in Film and the Humanities (Fall 2003

Musical Collaborations

• “XENIA,” song-cycle, with music by Thomas Sleeper, performed by tenor John Duykers, Albany Records, 2010
• “The Sisters Antipodes,” mini-opera, with music by Thomas Sleeper, performed at Festival Miami and other locations nationally and abroad, 2009
• “The Marriage of the Sea,” mini-opera, with music by Raina Murnak, performed at Festival Miami, 2009

Honors

• Center for the Humanities Fellow, University of Miami (2012-2013)
• UM Provost Research Award for Summer (2012)
• UM Max Orovitz Summer Research Awards (summer 2008, 2010)
• People Magazine Editor’s Pick (March 2009)
• Nomination for International Kiriyama Pacific Rim Literary Prize (2006)
• Nomination for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2005)
• New York Times Notable Book (2003)
• Residency at Lavigny International Writers Colony, Switzerland (2002)

Recent Presentations (selected)

• American Academy in Rome, Italy (2013), “Ovid Transformed: The Poet and the Metamorphoses”
• Humanities Center, Miami (2012)
• Brandeis National Committee, Treasure Coast, FL (2011)
• American Library in Paris (2009)
• John Adams Institute, Amsterdam (2009)
• University of South Carolina, “Caught in the Creative Act” (2009)
• Miami International Book Fair (2009)
• University of Southern Illinois, “Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival” (2009)
• George Mason University, “Fall for the Book” (2009)
• Rutgers University Writers Conference (2007)
• Bryn Mawr College Creative Writing Program Reading Series (2005)
• National Public Radio (2005)
• Karlsruher Bücherschau, Karlsruhe, Germany (2003)
• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Stuttgart, Germany (2003)
• Geneva Writers Group International Writers Conference, Geneva, Switzerland (2003, 2002)
• Lavigny International Writers Residence Reading Series, Lavigny, Switzerland (2002)
• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum, Heidelberg, Germany (2001)