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Who I am, in 50 words or less

I am professor and chair in the Department of Communications and Journalism at Webster University. I hold a BS in Communication from Northwestern University (1975) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College (1991). My novel, The Might-Have-Been, is scheduled for publication by Ballantine in Spring 2012.

During the Fall 2011 semester, I am teaching:

A Freshman Seminar centered on Battlestar Galactica
Writing Screenplays for Film

I have published approximately 600 magazine and newspaper articles, reviews and essays in national, regional and local magazines and newspapers, including

Sport (now, sadly, defunct)
Mary Engelbreit Home Companion Magazine (now, sadly, defunct)
USA Today
St. Louis Sun (now, sadly, defunct)
Gameday Magazine
Riverfront Times

Here are a few film reviews I've written for them

St. Louis Post Dispatch
St. Louis Magazine

My fiction has appeared in

108
Iowa Review
The Kenyon Review
The Marlboro Review
Missouri Review
New Virginia Review
Western Humanities Review

Twice my work has been cited among the distinguished stories in Best American Short Stories, in 1982 and 1989. Another of my stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003, and an early version of the first chapter of my novel, The Might-Have-Been (under its working title "A Saint in the Family") received second prize in the 2004 Santa Fe Writers Project

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