Ordinary Sins (10 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Some of these stories originally appeared in the following publications:

Clover
: “Children's Play” and “The Checkout Clerk”

Fifth Wednesday
: “Who Loved Animals More Than People” (as “Little Darlings”)

Georgia Review
: “Sad Hour,” “What's Candy to an Artist?” “Good Riddance,” “The Good Host”

Great River Review
: “Who Loved Combustion Engines,” “Be Careful What You Wish For,” “Who Jingled His Change” (as “Spare Change”), “The Hoarder”

Jeopardy
: “Three Women Were in the Café”

Opus 45
: “The Wondrous Quiet Life”

Shenandoah
: “The Hardware Store Man,” “The Poor Rich Young Man” (both in different form)

Sleet
: “The Love Addicts,” “Man Tying His Shoes,” “Daycare”

The Southeast Review
(formerly
Sundog
): “The Escapee” (in different form)

Water-Stone
: “The Boy Who Couldn't Conform”

Wigleaf
: “The Boy with the Boom Box and the Old Farmer”

Zero
: “Who Talked to His Bees”

J
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H
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was born in a farmhouse near Sioux Center, Iowa; attended a one-room schoolhouse; graduated from Hull Western Christian High in Hull, Iowa; and attended Dordt College in Sioux Center before transferring to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he graduated at age twenty with majors in English education and speech/drama. He taught at Hull Western Christian before four years of graduate work at the University of Iowa, concentrating in English Renaissance Literature. He taught three years at the University of Michigan–Flint and one year at Calvin College before moving to Eugene, Oregon, and earning his MFA in creative writing at the University of Oregon. After several years in Artists in the Schools programs, arts administration at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington, and residencies at the University of Alaska and University of Idaho, he taught in the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. In 1992, he moved with his wife Sarah T. Williams to St. Paul, Minnesota, served as writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College for fifteen years, and is currently writing full time and teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.

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