About

I’m the author of four books of creative nonfiction: WAITING TO DERAIL (co-written with Thomas O’Keefe, 2018), PARTISANS (2017), LINES OF SCRIMMAGE (co-written with Scott Pleasant, 2015) and HITLESS WONDER (2012). My work has appeared in Esquire, Salon, Sports Illustrated, Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Ninth Letter, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, and many other magazines and journals. Four of my pieces have been cited as notable in the Best American series, and I’ve received special mention twice in the Pushcart Prize anthology. I teach creative writing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, where I am chair of the English Department. When not writing or teaching, I can be found playing bass and singing in the Columbus, Ohio-based band Watershed. My last name, believe it or not, is pronounced “a-strike.”