Degrees: BA in Government, Franklin and Marshall College, 1985; MFA in Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1994; MA in Liberal Arts, St John’s College, Santa Fe, 2004; MA in Eastern Classics, St John’s College, Santa Fe, 2005.
Favorite Books: The Tale of Genji, Suematso Kencho; To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Favorite Quote: “I went to a literary night at the prison — more prose than cons.”
Fun Facts: I am the author of the novel Everything Beautiful in the World, FSG 2008, and have published several short stories. I studied Sanskrit for two years.