Professor Doug Rice, author of Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist and A Good Cuntboy is Hard to Find, (and more) was the second reader for my graduate thesis and a remarkable teacher of the craft of writing.

I’d like to offer congratulations to my Sacramento colleagues: Jen Palmares Meadows and Joshua McKinney for their contributions to Summer 2011 Denver Quarterly.

Word Riot is a real writers’ lit mag. It’s nothing fancy when you first see the home page, but the content is beautiful. It is what’s inside that counts, after all.