That's My Bix!

Part of my PhD funding involves building experience and authority in the literary publishing world. Or, you know, such one may contrive through editing a literary journal. My first year in doctoral studies were supplemented by a role as assistant fiction editor — and my second year, I got a promotion to fiction editor. I […]

If I hadn’t been opposed to digging in distant fields and trenches, I might have become an archaeologist. It turns out, I hate sweating and manual labor. Probably lucky for us all that I didn’t go that route — as it turns out, archaeologists are usually funded by trust money inherited by grandparents who made […]