I'm going to be teaching at my usual gig at the University of Missouri-Kansas City MFA Program this fall and heading to Princeton where I'll be a visitng lecturer for the spring of 2011. You can check out the UMKC program and my colleagues there at our website here. Info on the Princeton Creative Writing program is here.


In a cross-pollination of the two above programs, I'm thrilled that Joyce Carol Oates will be coming to read at the Writers at Work Series in Kansas City on November 8. Thanks to Joyce, the Kansas City Public Library, Rainy Day Books, and the intrepid members of the Writers at Work Round Table for making that happen. As for my own work, I recently unearthed a manuscript from catacombs of the Sentry Security Building (i.e. my rented writing space in Kansas City). So it's in the pipeline now -- though probably with some work still to do -- and I'm back to poking around for the next story.