BookS
Poetry and Essays
- Success Stories (Limestone Books)
Success Stories is a great book, and I don’t use that word lightly. It’s as new as Leaves of Grass was for its time.” — Louis Simpson
“Was drawn in by the casual reality and minute perceptions, bulging with immense moments.” — Allen Ginsberg
- The Glass Children (The University of Georgia Press)
“The final poem … exalts the imagination and reminds us of imagination’s
capacity to help us change our lives …” — Andy Brumer, New York Times
Memoirs
- Catholic by Choice: How I Embraced the Faith, Joined the Church and Embarked on the Adventure of a Lifetime (Loyola Press)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Poetry
- The New Yorker
- Hudson Review
- Image Journal – Good Letters
- The Sun Magazine
- Chicago Review
- Denver Quarterly
- For A Living: The Poetry of Work (University of Illinois Press)
- The Literature of Work: Short Stories, Essays and Poems by Men and Women of Business (University of Phoenix Press)
HONORS AND AWARDS
- National Endowment for the Arts – Literature Fellowship
- Minnesota State Arts grant
- Bush Artist Fellowship
- Loft Mentor Series
