North American American Stories Since 1970, 1999 (editor, with Lex Williford) (contributor) Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists, 2003 (editor, with Robin Hemley) Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art, 2005 (nonfiction) Night Terrors: An Introduction to Zombigaze, 2006 (meta-biography) Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations, 2006 (editor) Double-Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone, 2007 (fiction) Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, 2007 (editor, with Lex Williford) Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, 2008 (nonfiction) Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover, 2009 (editor) The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, 2020 ("editor") Awards The Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, for Flatness and Other Landscapes, University of Georgia Press (1998) The Indiana Author's Award (2013) The Mark Twain Award by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (2016) The 2022 Druid Arts Award for literary educator, The Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. References External links Interview at HTMLGIANT Biography at Web Del Sol Interview at Devil's Lake Interview at The Quarterly Conversation Detailed bibliography 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Writers from Fort Wayne, Indiana 1955 births Living people 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Indiana 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers