It's official: next year, I'm going to be a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer for the winter semester at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor!

Starting January 2019, I'll be teaching an undergraduate course in Creative Writing and an MFA class at the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Having met some of the MFA students and faculty when I did a reading/class there last year, I am very psyched. And not just because it's August dog days and I'm sitting in my un-airconditioned workroom, where even the books seem to be melting into puddles of inky pulp, dreaming of Michigan snowdrifts...