Author of five novels: The Swan Gondola, The Coffins of Little Hope, Devils in the Sugar Shop, The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God, and The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters. Director of the (downtown) omaha lit fest. Contributing editor, Fairy Tale Review. Assistant Professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln creative writing program.
"The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God" is part of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program, and was the 2007 Omaha Reads one-book-one-city selection. "Devils in the Sugar Shop" was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Book Sense pick.
"The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God" is part of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program, and was the 2007 Omaha Reads one-book-one-city selection. "Devils in the Sugar Shop" was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Book Sense pick.
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
New and upcoming books
Novels
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters (2002)
The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God (2005)
Devils in the Sugar Shop (2007)
The Coffins of Little Hope (2011)
The Swan Gondola (2014)
The Perfume Thief (2021)
The Titanic Survivors Book Club (2024)
The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God (2005)
Devils in the Sugar Shop (2007)
The Coffins of Little Hope (2011)
The Swan Gondola (2014)
The Perfume Thief (2021)
The Titanic Survivors Book Club (2024)
Timothy Schaffert recommends
Weird Black Girls (2024)
Elwin Cotman
"Elwin Cotman's fiction is genius. Weird Black Girls is full of wry, fantastical twists that are always surprising, always illuminating. I'm enraptured by his writing, his every paragraph rich in wisdom and wit, his stories somehow rough and refined both, a brilliant mix of perversity and common sense, of the sacred and the profane."
Plastic (2024)
Scott Guild
"Plastic is a marvel, gimlet-eyed and utterly charming all at once. It's one of those rare novels that has both big ideas and a big heart. I'm tantalized by its sci-fi grooviness but also moved by the dolls' interiority, their assessment of their own humanity."
The War Begins in Paris (2023)
Theodore Wheeler
"This vivid novel takes on one of my favorite subjects: journalists in the war zone. Here we have 'radio traitors' among them, everybody wound tight, with questions of truth and trust all caught up in threat and propaganda. With fascinating parallels to our own cultural moment, The War Begins in Paris is a captivating and vibrant - and utterly present - portrait of chaos."
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