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This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5, and the background image is of a painting that I not so much painted myself as ripped off the web: Barnett Newman's "The Name II." The little cartoon guy on my profile image stands in one corner of the Beijing Sculpture Garden. I like him because his sign says "Please keep off the grass" whereas the machine gun on his shoulder says, "Seriously, man, keep off the fucking grass." Also, his helmet says "garlic" in Spanish. I'm not sure what that's about.

Just in case there's not quite enough of me for you right here, my webpage is only a click away.

Work-wise, I am a fiction writer and a columnist of sorts. Family-wise, I'm a husband, a father, a son.

All Over is my first collection of short stories. It looks like this:

It is Dzanc Books' debut title, and they've given the book its own MySpace page over here. It's nineteen stories long, and includes "Wait," which was first published in The Kenyon Review, and later was picked by Stephen King for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2007 anthology.

So far All Over has garnered kind words from reviewers here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

My first book, a novella called Nothing in the World, looks like this:

Thus far it's gotten review-type love here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. The first edition was published by Bullfight Media in July of 2006; the print run sold out and the book disappeared for a time, but now Dzanc has brought it back to life, and I couldn't be happier.

Now, not that you asked specifically, but here are a few places where these books can be found:

Dzanc, the Very Source

Powell’s the Most Excellent

Ubiquitous Amazon

Barnes and Noble

Borders

Alternatively, you could go to Goodreads, find someone who already has the book, sneak into their house and read it while they’re asleep.

What else. Interviews? By all means: try clicking here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, or way over here.

These days, my favorite litmag is Ninth Letter. (Full disclosure: they've published stories of mine in a few recent issues.) Some other very cool magazines who have published or will soon be publishing my work, in no particular order:

Subtropics, New Orleans Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, American Short Fiction, McSweeney's, The Georgia Review, Prism International, The Mississippi Review, Salt Flats Annual, New York Tyrant, Kenyon Review, Other Voices, Chapman, Harpur Palate, Orchid, Opium, The Greensboro Review, New York Stories, The New England Review, Quarterly West, Pindeldyboz, The Florida Review, The Iowa Review, Epiphany, Land-Grant College Review, Iron Horse, Maisonneuve, Gambara, The New Quarterly, The Madison Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Night Train, Literal Latte, Nimrod, Backwards City Review, Hobart, Dragonfire, Mad Hatters’ Review, ByLine, The God Particle, and RE:AL.

And some excellent litmags who haven’t yet taken my bait:

Tin House, The Paris Review, n+1, Quick Fiction, spork, Isotope, Noon, Zoetrope: All-Story, Failbetter, Open City, Michigan Quarterly Review, Manoa, Mid-American Review, Post Road, Swink, Fence, The Cincinnati Review, Agni, The Missouri Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, Bridge, Bomb, CutBank, Diagram, Five Points, The Believer, Practice, StoryQuarterly, A Public Space, Black Warrior Review, Granta, Image, One Story, Plieades, and The Southern Review.

Attention All Editors Who Are Dying To Get Their Magazines On This List:

I CANNOT BE BOUGHT. I can, however, be rented by the hour, the half-hour, or the fifteen-minute period. Have your people contact my people, preferably via electro-chemical telegraph, because those were cool.

Other people who think that there should be a statue of Cormac McCarthy in every town square, that Marilynne Robinson's sentences are so perfect they hurt just a little bit, that Thomas Pynchon is way overdue for a Nobel, that George Saunders' heart encompasses the world.

And more widely: other writers and artists of all kinds, as well as the people who support them by editing, publishing, buying, reading, observing, and/or just generally liking their work.

Good bloggers, too, this goes without saying, yes? A few of my favorites:

Maud Newton, Tod Goldberg, Moorish Girl, Attention. Deficit. Disorder., Bookslut, Gina Frangello, Sue Henderson, Pia Ehrhardt, Dong Resin’s Joint, TMFTML, Riley Dog, and Language Hat.