B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas; M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Honor Award in Fiction from The Nebraska Center for the Book and the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Also won a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program.

His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Witness, The Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Southern Review.

• (reprint University of Nebraska Press, 2004, ISBN 9780803293120)

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