She received her B.A. from Ball State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her current book project, “A New Looseness”: The Generative Fictions of the Short-Story Cycle, examines the centrality of the short-story cycle to modern American literary production. An article therefrom, “Locating the Short-Story Cycle,” is forthcoming in The Journal of the Short Story in English.