I've been an editor since 1994. In that time I’ve edited over forty-five print issues of three different award-winning literary magazines and one general interest quarterly, working with hundreds of writers, emerging and established, to get their writing into print. I was on the staff of Black Warrior Review for five years and was editor from 1997 to 1999. I was editor of New Orleans Review from 1999 to 2012 (check out "Crescent City Blues," Tony D'Souza's review of my post-Katrina issue of NOR here). And I’m the founding editor of Midwest Review, editing that journal from 2015-2022. I currently work as a freelance manuscript consultant and developmental editor on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry manuscripts, and edit the quarterly magazine Wisconsin People & Ideas.
editorial reprints
2021 Best Debut Short Stories, “Taxi,” Pardeep Toor (MR)
2016 Best American Mystery Stories, “The Fixer,” Dennis Day [Distinguished Story] (MR)
2014 O. Henry Prize Stories, “Old Houses,” Allison Alsup (NOR)
2013 Flash Fiction International, “skull of a sheep,” James Claffey (NOR)
2012 Best American Mystery Stories, “The Funeral Bill,” Jason DeYoung (NOR)
2011 The Utne Reader, “Old Man Lying by the Side of the Stage,” Lad Tobin (NOR)
2007 Best American Nonrequired Reading, “American,” Joshua Clark (NOR)
2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology, “Fight,” Michael Czyniejewski (NOR)
2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, “My Unopened Life,” Tess Gallagher (NOR)
2004 New Stories from the South, “One Summer,” Annette Sanford (NOR)
2003 Pushcart Prize Anthology, “He Writes to the Soul,” Christopher Howell (NOR)
2002 The Utne Reader, “To Someone (Not to Play),” Takamura Kotaro (NOR)
1999 Best American Poetry, “The Beach at Falmouth Heights, Summer, 1952,” Thomas Rabbitt (BWR)
