Education
Bachelor, Iowa State University, 1996. Master of Fine Arts, University Alabama, Tuscaloosa,, 2001.
Bachelor, Iowa State University, 1996. Master of Fine Arts, University Alabama, Tuscaloosa,, 2001.
Director-Founder Iowa School Lost Arts. Writer-in-Residence Blue Mountain Center, Great River Arts Institute, Tyrone Guthrie Center.
Editor: (book) Participatory Sportswriting: An Anthology. Author: The Furrow and Us: Essays on Soil and Sentiment (Theodore Saloutos award nominee, 2005), The Inanity of Music and Wings, Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom, Student Body: A Benefit Mystery Novella, Farewell to Sport, The Plowman Sings: The Essential Fiction, Poetry, and Drama of America's Forgotten Regionalist Jay G. Sigmund, Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On, Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families, Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings, Letters to a Young Iowan (Puschart prize nominee (Best of Small Presses), 2007), Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from an American Golden Age (Theodore Saloutos prize nominee, 2006), Perfectly Against the Sun, Iowa: The Definitive Collection.
Advisory board member Midland Roots Arts Initiative, Iowa City, since 2007, Interversity Place Studies Listserv, Iowa City, since 2007.