I'm deeply honored to share that The Massachusetts Review has awarded my incredibly talented colleague Elton Uliana and me the 2026 Chametzky Translation Prize for our co-translation of José Luís Peixoto's enchanting short story "The Woman Who Dreamed." Named in memory of the magazine's founder Jules Chametzky, the prize recognizes an exceptional work of literary translation published in The Massachusetts Review over the preceding two years. Peixoto's hauntingly poetic story

It was such a pleasure having my short story "The Cicadas" featured in the latest issue of Strange Pilgrims, not least because the publication included a fun and thought-provoking interview about my writing life. Enjoy reading this foray into the speculative, stay a while for the interview, and/or listen to my "atmospheric" reading in the accompanying audio.