Experience

• Nickel Pickle Films

  Filmmaker

  Producer/director of documentary films

• Dallas Morning News

  Film industry columnist

  Wrote the monthly SHOT IN TEXAS column about the Texas film industry.

• St. Edward's University

  Creative writing instructor

  Taught graduate workshops in the MLA program in both creative writing and creative nonfiction. Previously also taught undergraduate and New College courses in: journalism, creative writing, composition, desktop publishing. Formerly adviser to the university newspaper and named adviser of the year by the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.

• Austin Community College

  Associate professor of English/Creative Writing and Balcones Fiction Prize director

  Associate professor, English/creative writing
  
  Director of the Balcones Fiction Prize, a $1,500 award given annually to the best book of fiction

• EVACUATION PLAN

  Novelist

  I am the author of the novel-in-stories EVACUATION PLAN which won the North Texas Book Award and was a finalist for the Violet Crown Book Award. It was a No. 1 bestseller at Austin's Bookpeople.
  
  The novel follows a screenwriter into a residential hospice in search of a script idea. Along the way we get the stories of the dying, their families and the people who live and work in this place of last days.
  
  The Austin American-Statesman called it: "Tales alternately gentle, dramatic, surrealistic, that collectively affirm the beauty of being alive, even as they acknowledge that all of us face the necessity of making our own 'evacuation plan.' "