Selected Publications and Projects
Novels
The Perfume Thief
The Swan Gondola
The Coffins of Little Hope
Devils in the Sugar Shop
The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters (currently in development as a feature film)
Selected short fiction
“Roses and Toads,” Faerie Magazine
“Lady of the Burlesque Ballet,” Ploughshares (noted in Best American Short Stories)
“The Mermaid in the Tree,” in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
“Wolves at Bay,” Prairie Schooner (short-listed for The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories)
Editorial projects
You Will Never See Any God: Stories by Ervin D. Krause (University of Nebraska Press)
Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition Digital Archive
Fairy Tale Review guest editor, the Brown Issue and the Emerald Issue
Literary events
Director/founder, the (downtown) omaha lit fest (2005-present)
Director, Nebraska Summer Writers Conference (2008-2012)
Awards and Recognitions
Oprah.com Book of the Week (The Swan Gondola)
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice (Devils in the Sugar Shop)
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers (The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God)
Indie Next/American Booksellers Association selection (The Coffins of Little Hope)
Book Sense/American Booksellers Association selection (Devils in the Sugar Shop)
Midwest Connections selection (Devils in the Sugar Shop, The Swan Gondola)
Nebraska Book Award (The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters)
The Historical Novels Review Editors’ Choice (The Swan Gondola)
Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award
Nebraska Library Association Mari Sandoz Award
Education
M.F.A., University of Arizona
B.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing
Fiction Writing
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