My first book, a story collection entitled Physically Alarming Men, is forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press. The stories in this collection explore the complications of a present contaminated by the past. Some plots: a trio of fraudsters set up camp outside a northern Minnesota Peat Bog hoping to kidnap two brothers said to be gifted with the ability to heal; an emotionally stunted maintenance worker steals his wealthy client's child to go noodling for catfish; a woman abandons her husband on the side of the road during a quixotic road trip to his hometown. Originally from northwestern Minnesota, I earned my MFA at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I currently reside in Salt Lake City, where I study in the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Utah.