EDWARD FALCO
235 Brush Mountain Road
Blacksburg, VA 24060-8313
540.951.4112
[email protected]
www.edfalco.us
EDUCATION
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, M.A., English (1979)
SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, B.S., English (1971)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Toughs (novel). Denver: Unbridled Books. 2014. 416.
Foreign editions:
Slovakia: Myslienky Mafiana. (translated by Peter Tkacenko.) Bratislava: Ikar. 2014. 423
Czech Republic, forthcoming.
Reviewed in South85 Journal (Spring/Summer 2014), Kirkus (July 1, 2014), Publisher’s Weekly
August, 2014), Library Journal (August, 2014), Curled Up With A Good Book (August, 2014) Jen’s
Book Thoughts (August 19, 2014).
The Family Corleone (based on extracted pages from screenplays for The Godfather III / IV by Mario Puzo).
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012. 436. UK publication by Heinemann (May 28, 2012).
Foreign editions: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,
Turkey, and Vietnam.
Reviewed in Kirkus (Feb 23, 2012), Publisher’s Weekly (February 27, 2012), Booklist (March 1,
2012), The Mystery Gazette (May 1, 2012), New York Post (May 6, 2012), New Jersey Star Ledger
(May 6, 2012), Washington Post (May 7, 2012), CrimeSpree Magazine ( May 7, 2012), Limn Literary
Arts Journal (May 8, 2012), The Guardian (May 11, 2012), New York Journal of Books (May 12, 2012),
Newsday (May 13, 2012), Roanoke Times (May 13, 2012), The Columbus Dispatch (May 13, 2012),
The Desert Independent (May 14, 2012), The Book Reporter, (May 17, 2012) The Daily News (May 20,
2012), The Times-News (May 26, 2012), The Star (May 27, 2012), Open Letters Monthly (June 5,
2012), Buisness Day (September 18, 2012), People Magazine (September 20, 2012)
Burning Man (stories). Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2011. 215.
Reviewed in The Nevada Review (April 21, 2011), Corduroy Books (June 20, 2011), Richmond Times
Dispatch (July 26, 2011), The Notre Dame Review (Summer/Fall 2011).
Saint John of the Five Boroughs (novel). Denver: Unbridled Books, 2009. 423.
Reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly (August 3, 2009), Booklist (September 1, 2009), Corduroy Books
(October 4, 2009), Readaholic (October 19, 2009), Blog Critics (October 28, 2009), San Fracisco
Book Review, (November 12, 2009), Sacramento Book Review (November 20, 2009), Popmatters
(December, 2009), USA Today (December 7, 2009), Emerging Writers Networks (December 4,
2009), Curled Up with a Good Book (December, 2009), Roanoke Times (January 24, 2010), American
Book Review (Jan/Feb 2010)
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Wolf Point (novel). Denver: Unbridled Books, 2005. 234.
Reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly (August 15, 2005), Library Journal (September 1, 2005), Midwest
Book Review (October, 2005), Curled Up With A Good Book (October, 2005), Richmond TimesDispatch (cover review, October 9, 2005), Sunday New York Times Book Review (October 30,
2005), January Magazine (September 2005), Mystery Scene #91, (September 2005) San Diego
Union-Tribune (October 2, 2005), Bookreporter.com (October 2005), Forward Magazine (October 15,
2005), The Roanoke Times (November 6, 2005) , Richmond Style Weekly (October 19, 2005), The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ( October 9, 2005), The Daily Progress (October 16, 2005), Booklist
(November 2005), Pages Magazine (November 2005), The Mississippi Clarion-Ledger (November
13, 2005), Crescent Blues (Vol 8, No. 11), South Florida Sun-Sentinel (December 25, 2005), bookblog.com (February 23, 2006), Notre Dame Review (Winter 2006), NewCenturyReading.com (May
2006), American Book Review (May 2006), R A L P H (Autumn 2006)
Sabbath Night In the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories. Denver: Unbridled Books, 2005. 262.
Reviewed in Midwest Book Review (March 2005), Library Journal (March 15, 2005), Booklist (April
15, 2005), NewCenturyReading.com (May 2005), Emerging Writers Network (June 2005), Richmond
Style Weekly (August 10, 2005), The Roanoke Times (May 1, 2005), Curled Up With A Good Book
(September 2005) , The Magill Book Reviews (Dec 05), The Happy Booker (February 14, 2006), New
Pages.Com (March 3, 2006), Hollin’s Critic (June 2006)
In the Park of Culture (short fictions). Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 94.
Reviewed in The Carolina Quarterly.
Acid (stories). Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. 193.
Reviewed in Publishers Weekly (December 18, 1995), Kirkus Reviews (January 15, 1996), Booklist
(February 15, 1996), New York Times Book Review (April 21, 1996), The Midwest Book Review (June,
1996), The Roanoke Times (July 7, 1996), The Hudson Review (Autumn, 1996), Review of
Contemporary Fiction (Fall, 1996), Writer’s Carousel (September/October 1996), Cimarron Review
(April, 1997), Studies in Short Fiction (Fall, 1997), Italian Americana (1998).
Plato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1990. 165.
Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews (June 1, 1990), Booklist (June 15, 1990), Publishers Weekly
(June 15, 1990), Library Journal (August, 1990), New York Times Book Review (September
23, 1990), The Book Reader (September, 1990), University Press Book News (September,
1990), Roanoke Times & World-News (October 14, 1990), BookPage (October, 1990),
Wilson Library Bulletin (December 1, 1990), Studies in Short Fiction (Spring, 1991), Black
Warrior Review (Summer, 1991), Gulf Stream Magazine (Summer, 1991), Virginia Tech
Magazine (Summer, 1992), Carousel (March/April, 1993).
Winter in Florida (novel). New York: Soho Press, 1990. 296.
Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews (April 15, 1990), Publishers Weekly (April 27, 1990), Booklist
(June 15, 1990), Los Angeles Times Book Review (July 15, 1990), Tallahassee Democrat
(August 5, 1990), Los Angeles Daily News (August 26, 1990), The Philadelphia Inquirer
(August 12, 1990), The Richmond Times-Dispatch (August 12, 1990), The Florida TimesUnion (August 19, 1990), The Orlando Sentinel (August 19, 1990), The Atlanta Journal and
Constitution (August 26, 1990), The Roanoke Times & World-News (September 30, 1990),
The Independent (December 5, 1990), Illinois Writers Review (Winter, 1991).
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Concert in the Park of Culture (prose poems). Syracuse: Tamarack Editions, 1984. Unpaginated (18 pages).
Reviewed in The Georgia Review (Winter, 1984).
Plays
The Miscreant. The Road Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. Summer Playwrights Festival. Reading, directed by
Riley Steiner, July 30, 2015.
Possum Dreams. Prodigal Productions. Theatre 54, New York, NY. March 18 – March 28, 2015.
Possum Dream. None Too Fragile Theater, Akron, Ohio. June 13 – June 28, 2014.
In Red Rain. Script-in-hand Reading. Theatre 101. June 20, 2013
Possum Dreams. “First Look” Reading. Studio Roanoke, Roanoke, VA. January 23, 2011.
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha. CCT with 2nd Flight Theatre Company, Arlington, VA. October
8-17, 2010.
The Center. Directed by David Johnson. Studio Roanoke, Roanoke, VA. November 6-7 2009.
Possum Dreams. Reading, directed by Connie Grappo. Urban Stages, New York, NY. 6 October 2008.
Bird, Hand, Night. Directed by Ernie Zulia. Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA. 22 April 2006.
The Pact. Directed by Edward Falco. Virginia Tech Theatre Department, Blacksburg, VA. 22 – 24 February
2006.
Possum Dreams. Reading, directed by Jamie Richards. Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, NY. 12
September 2005.
Possum Dreams. Reading, directed by Jamie Richards. Ensemble Studio Theater, New York, NY.
22 - 23
October 2004.
Home Delivery. Reading, directed by Mary Best. Roanoke Festival in the Park, Roanoke, VA. 1 June 2002.
Radon! Directed by David Johnson. Virginia Tech Theatre Department, Blacksburg, VA. 16- 27 April 2002.
The Cretans. Directed by David Johnson. Virginia Tech Theatre Department, Blacksburg, VA. 9-11 October
2001.
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha. Directed by David Johnson. Virginia Tech Theatre Department,
Blacksburg, VA. 28 September - 7 October 2000.
Home Delivery. Directed by Stephen Coy. Hampden-Sydney College Theater Department, Farmville, VA.
9-11 April 1992.
Home Delivery. Reading, directed by Sheila Malone. Mill Mountain Theater, Roanoke, VA. 9-11 April 1992:
Home Delivery. Reading, directed by Mary Best. Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA. 18 March 1987.
Short Stories
“Where Are They All Now?” in Blue Christmas. Miami: B&B Press, 2011.
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“The Athlete.” R.kv.r.y. Quarterly Literary Journal 7.1 (Spring 2011).
“Candy.” Five Points 12.3: (2009): 98-113.
“Smothered Mate.” The Notre Dame Review 27 (2009): 108-112.
“Winter Storms,” Playboy 54.5 (2007): 100 – 121.
“Wild Girls,” The Missouri Review 24.2 (2006): 11-26.
“Places, Please,” Verb: an audioquarterly 1.2 (Winter 2006)
“Small Blessings.” The Notre Dame Review 19 (2005): 66-79.
“Among the Tootalonians.” Gettysburg Review 16.3 (2003): 351-365.
“The Professor’s Son.” Night Train 1.1 (2002): 137-150.
"Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha." Missouri Review 23.2 (2000): 7-24.
"Mythmakers." Shenandoah 50.2 (2000): 132-143.
“Sweet.” TriQuarterly 105 (1999): 86-97.
“The Instruments of Peace.” Playboy 46.7 (1999) : 78-162.
"Ghosts." The Notre Dame Review 8 (1999): 38-45.
“Burning Man.” Playboy 45.9 (1998) 66-173.
“Little America.” Southwest Review 83 (1998): 41-52.
“Tulsa Snow.” Missouri Review 20.3 (1997): 128-138.
“The Match.”
spelunker flophouse 1.3 (1997): 49-69.
“Tell Me What It Is.” Seven Hundred Kisses: A Yellow Silk Book of Erotic Writing. San Francisco: Harper
SanFrancisco, 1997. 147-169.
“The Perv.” The Blue Moon Review (July, 1997).
“The Revenant.” The Southern Review 33 (1997): 359-375.
"Drunks." Antioch Review 55.1 (1997): 25-40.
"Monsters." Glimmer Train 20 (1996): 38-67.
"Therapy." The Notre Dame Review 2 (1996): 113-120.
"Ax." North Dakota Quarterly 62.4 (1995): 60-72.
"The Requirements of Flight." The Southwest Review 80 (1995): 297-314.
"Drivers." Fish Stories 1 (1995): 49-55.
"Smugglers." Ploughshares 21.1 (1995): 175-187.
"Acid." TriQuarterly 92 (1995): 165-180.
"The Artist." The Atlantic Monthly 274.4 (1994): 82-94.
"Petrified Wood." The Southern Review 30 (1994): 462-473.
"Tests." Quarterly West 37 (1993): 44-51.
"Radon." Virginia Quarterly Review 68 (1992): 258-276.
"Vinnie's Boy, Larry." New Virginia Review 8 (1991): 175-182.
"Georgia O'Keeffe, Vision." Blue Light Red Light 3 (1991): 72-75
"Heart Attacks." River Styx 31 (1990): 75-88.
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"This World That World." St. Andrews Review 36 (1989): 47-56.
"Peace, Brother." Shenandoah 38.3 (1988): 36-51.
"Leaning into the Circle." Gettysburg Review 1 (1988): 725-735.
"Prodigies." Virginia Quarterly Review 64 (1988): 466-478.
"Gifts." The Missouri Review 9.3 (1986): 192-201.
"The Love Story of Boldt Castle." North Dakota Quarterly 54.2 (1986): 109-117.
"Plato at Scratch Daniel's." Virginia Quarterly Review 62 (1986): 312-325.
"The Girl at the Window." Sou'wester 13.1 (1985): 67-84.
"Silver Dollars." Greensboro Review 38 (1985): 66-79.
"Sir Thomas More in the Hall of Languages." Georgia Review 38 (1984): 583-591.
"Morning Walk/ Syracuse." The Heights 21.1 (1984): 12-16.
"The Foaling Man." Virginia Quarterly Review 59 (1983): 664-677.
"Drivers." Crop Dust 1.4 (1983): 16-19.
"The Music Box Lake." Kansas Quarterly 15.1 (1983): 161-171.
"Chipper." Permafrost 5.1 (1983): 46-50.
"St. Augustine on MONY Tower." Akros Review 2.3 (1982): 23-26.
"The Dream of a Perfect City." Alaska Quarterly Review 1 (1982): 37-64.
"Such a Babe in the Woods." Madison Review 4.1 (1982): 55-64.
"In the Bad Part of Brooklyn." Sou'wester 9.3 (1982): 35-51.
"The Passion Flower." Southern Humanities Review 14 (1980): 319-330.
"Twins." Contraband 15 (1980): 30-37.
Short Fictions
“Wish.” Copper Nickel (forthcoming)
“The Burned Boy.” Copper Nickel (forthcoming)
“Wolf Moon.” The Southern Review 51:1 (2015): 131.
“Age of Aquarius.” Pleiades 31:1 (2011): 40.
“Koi.” The Southern Review 46:3 (2010): 362-363.
“After, Climbing Dragon’s Tooth.” Prairie Schooner 83:3 (2009): 142-143.
“April 10, 1988.” Prairie Schooner 83:3 (2009): 141-142.
“In America.” Prairie Schooner 83:3 (2009): 141.
“Black Gift.” VIA: Voices in Italian Americana 20:1 (2009): 115.
“Meditation on Loss,” The Southern Review 44:1 (2008): 85.
“Good Morning, Isabella,” The Grinnell Review, Fall 2008.
“March 20, 2003,” The Mississippi Review 34.3 (2006): 59.
“Faith,” The Mississippi Review 34.3 (2006): 58.
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“Rosso Fiorentino’s Madonna of Spedalingo,” The Carolina Quarterly 57.3 (2005): 69.
“Lugano-Paradiso,” The Carolina Quarterly 57.3 (2005): 70-71.
“Essay on the Eve of War.” The Notre Dame Review 8 (2003): 73.
“Pick-up Line, for Poets.” The Notre Dame Review 8 (2003): 74.
“The Body of a Woman.” The Notre Dame Review 8 (2003): 75.
“At Fifty.” Black Warrior Review 24.2 (1998): 158.
“Summer Light.” The Sandhills/St.Andrew’sReview 50 & 51 (1997): 109.
"Prayer." No Roses Review 5 (1995): 53.
"Summer Flowers." Blue Penny Quarterly 1.3 (1994).
"Sea Island." Blue Penny Quarterly 1.3 (1994).
"Out Here." Blue Penny Quarterly 1.3 (1994).
"Winners." Pennsylvania Review 5.2 (1994): 41.
"In the Green Drawing Room at Hollins College." Hiram Poetry Review 53-54 (1992-1993): 36.
"Casting Out." Western Humanities Review 46 (1992): 308.
"Pen and Ink/ Watercolor." Western Humanities Review 46 (1992): 278-279.
"Night Drives." Carolina Quarterly 44.2 (1992): 83.
"Brooklyn." Iowa Review 21.1 (1991): 179.
"Magic." Iowa Review 21.1 (1991): 179-180
"God Bless the Child." Hayden's Ferry Review 8 (1991): 108-110.
"There at the Circle." Black Warrior Review 16.2 (1990): 29.
"Five Women in a Bed." Quarterly West 30 (1990): 115-116.
"Communion." Exquisite Corpse 7.6 (1989): 27.
"On Memorial Court." Sundog: The Southeast Review 8.2 (1988): 37-39.
"The Theology of Disaster." Yarrow 8.2 (1988): 22.
"Aubade." Yarrow 8.2 (1988): 22.
"After News the Crow Cawed." Yarrow 8.2 (1988): 21.
"Summer Light." St. Andrews Review 33 (1987): 79.
"Picture from a War Zone." Confrontation 35 (1987): 200.
"Rowing Home." Montana Review 8 (1986): 85-86.
"'Black Iris'." Montana Review 8 (1986): 85.
"DeWolf Point." Montana Review 8 (1986): 84-85.
"Bodies." Montana Review 8 (1986): 83.
"Voyage." Montana Review 8 (1986): 82.
"Jumping the Fence." Montana Review 8 (1986): 80-81.
"Blizzard." Montana Review 8 (1986): 79-80.
"Leningrad 1942." Indiana Review 9.2 (1986): 19.
"St. Francis Protecting This World." Indiana Review 9.2 (1986): 18.
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"Harsh Thunder." Pequod 20 (1985): 130.
"Bodies." Greenfield Review 13.1 (1985): 150-151.
"A Child Before St. Jerome." Mid-American Review 5.1 (1985): 5.
"Delivery." Mid-American Review 5.1 (1985): 4.
"The Weighing of Souls from The Book of the Dead." Aileron 4.1 (1985): 47.
"Sentence." Puerto Del Sol 20.1 (1984): 8.
"Jumping the Fence." Telescope 3.3 (1984): 102-103.
"Voyage." West Hills Review 4 (1983-84): 87.
"'Black Iris'." Poetry Miscellany 13 (1983): 38.
"DeWolf Point." Tendril 16 (1983): 31.
"A Dealer in Antiquities Remembers." Telescope 5 (1983):159-160.
"Saints at the End of the World." Smoke Signals (1983): 21.
"Marietta Goretti at Nettuno." Sou'wester 10.2 (1982-83): 25.
"Ursula at Cologne." Sou'wester 10.2 (1982-83): 23.
"Night." North Dakota Quarterly 50.3 (1982): 92.
"Memories." Aspen Journal of the Arts 1 (1982): 22.
Poems
"At the Beginning of Marriage." Literary Review 39.3 (1996): 299.
"Winter Lake." Spoon River Poetry Review 20.2 (1995): 139.
"Dust." Southern Review 26 (1990): 906-910.
"Morning." International Poetry Review 16.2 (1990): 113.
"Winter Light." New Virginia Review 7 (1989): 79.
"While Cold Medicine...." Wind 19 (1989): 18.
"Possessions." New Letters 55.1 (1988): 49.
"Framed Picture on a Writing Desk." Zone 3 3.1 (1988): 56.
"Frost as Morning Goes On." College English 48.1 (1986): 41.
"Concert in the Park of Culture." Xavier Review 3.1 (1983): 15.
"elegy." Hawaii Review 13 (1982): 95.
"Listen, the Sleeper." Dreamworks 3.1 (1982): 31-34.
"Apology to My Lady." Sou'wester 7.1 (1979): 42.
"Where talused rocks...." Syracuse Poems and Stories (1979): 10.
"The driver...." Wisconsin Review 13.4 (1979): 28.
"Falling, Turning." Sou'wester 6.2 (1978): 52.
"Listen, the Sleeper." Wisconsin Review 12.4 (1978): 18-22.
"Starstuff." Syracuse Review (1978): 49.
"It shines out, the light...." Syracuse Review (1978): 49.
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"My Lady's Song." Laurel Review 12.2 (1978): 16-17.
"There are roses." Sou'wester 5.3 (1977): 13.
"Sister Catherine." Sou'wester 5.3 (1977): 14.
"Water, Porcelain Contained." Abraxas 14-15 (1977): n.p.
"Untitled." Gravida 7 (1975): n.p.
"Untitled." Workshop: New Poetry 26 (1974): 17.
"For Michael Horowitz." Workshop: New Poetry 17 (1972): 18.
"A Tree." Alkahest 4 (1970): 15.
Essays
“An Elliptical Essay on Violence.” The Virginia Quarterly Review 86.2 (2010): 171-179.
"Driving Through Kentucky." Poets and Writers Magazine 21.1 (1993): 24-27.
"On Breadloaf Mountain." Poets and Writers Magazine 17.5 (1989): 35-38.
Reviews
“New Media and Time” (a review of TOC by Steve Tomasula). American Book Review 31.1 (2009): 21- 22.
“VVVVVVVVVVVVVVV: V” (a review of V: WaveSon.Nets/Losing L’Una by Stephanie Strickland). Blackbird
2.1. 2004. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v2n1/nonfiction.htm
“Murder and Manipulation in Mississippi” (a review of The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough). Roanoke
Times, 23 May 1999, Horizon:4.
"Moses Unchained" (a review of Moses Unchained by Marilyn Moriarty). Hollins Critic 35.4 (1998): 21.
“Southern Stories Powerful” (a review of Mississippi History by Steve Yarbrough). Roanoke Times, 29
September 1996, Horizon:4.
"Making the Abstract Physical: On Fulton's Sensual Math" (a review of Sensual Math by Alice Fulton). Blue
Penny Quarterly Summer ‘97. http://thebluemoon.com (1 July 1997).
"The Powerhouse of Language" (a review of Powers of Congress by Alice Fulton). The Iowa Review 22.2
(1992): 190-192.
"The Interpretation..." (a review of The Interpretation of Waking Life by Eric Nelson). The Mid-American
Review 12.2 (1992): 171-173.
"The Sun Maiden" (a review of The Sun Maiden by Erika Taylor). The Virginia Quarterly Review 68 (1992):
60-61.
"The Member-Guest" (a review of The Member-Guest by Anthony Robinson). Roanoke
News, 20 October 1991, sec. D:4.
Times & World
"Open-ended Scenes" (a review of Midwinter Transport by Anne Bromely). Prairie Schooner 63.2 (1989):
135-138.
"Melons and Sycamores" (a review of Kochan by Jack Gilbert). New Mexico Humanities Review 7.3 (1984):
87-88.
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"What's Buried Is Not Forgotten" (a review of Bodies in the Bog by Stephen M. Gibson). New Mexico
Humanities Review 7.3 (1984): 91.
"Deadly Processions" (a review of A Dance of Stones by Michael Jennings). New Mexico Humanities Review
7.3 (1984): 88-89.
"Robert Lietz: The Poetry of Stasis" (a review of Running in Place by Robert Lietz). Chariton Review 7.2
(1981): 96-100.
Poems and Stories in Anthologies
“Where Are They All Now?” Blue Christmas. Miami: B&B Press, 2011.
“Smothered Mate.” Masters of Technique: An Anthology of Chess Fiction. Newton Highlands: Mongoose Press,
2010.
“Twins.” Bitten. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2009.
“Faith,” and “March 20, 2003.” Poetic Voices Without Borders 2. Arlington: Gival Press, 2009.
“Essay on the Eve of War,” “Pick-up Line for Poets,” and “The Body of a Woman.” Notre Dame Review:
The First Ten Years. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
"You have just entered room 'Sexy Chat'." Blue Cathedral, Palmdale: Red Hen Press, 2000.
"The Instruments of Peace." The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
“The Revenant.” The Pushcart Prize XXIII. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
“Tell Me What It Is.” Best American Erotica 1999. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
"Winter Lake." (poem) Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. Beverly Hills:
Monitor Books, 1997.
"The Artist." The Best American Short Stories 1995. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
"Blizzard," "Jumping the Fence," "Voyage," "Bodies," "DeWolf Point," "'Black Iris'," and
(short fictions) Time Enough for the World. Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1986.
"Rowing Home."
"Elegy." (poem) Fountain of Youth. Wheaton: University Communications Association, 1983.
"Apology to My Lady." (poem) Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. Beverly Hills:
Monitor Books, 1980.
New Media Writing
Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales (hypermedia composition with photographer Mary Pinto.) The Electronic
Literature Collection [CD-ROM]. Vol 1 (October, 2006). Editors: Katherine Hayles, Nick Monfort, Scott
Rettberg, and Stephanie Strickland. Online at http://collection.eliterature.org/
Circa 67-68 (novella-length hypermedia composition). 27 March 2004. Eastgate Reading Room.
http://eastgate.com/ReadingRoom.html.
“Night, Water, Night” (poem). New River 9. 1 January 2002. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver .
"Charmin' Cleary" (short story). Eastgate Systems Reading Room. 1 October 1999.
http://www.eastgate.com/Charmin/Welcome.html.
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Two reviews of “Charmin’ Cleary” were published in Dotlit: the Online Journal of Creative Writing
(15 August 2003). http://www.dotlit.qut.edu.au/reviews/charmin.html. There are numerous
student essays on “Charmin’ Cleary” available online in connection with the various courses
where the story is taught in contemporary literature courses internationally. Notable is a
substantial hypertext essay by a group of student, including Clara Ríos Armero, at the University
of Valencia. http://mural.uv.es/clarios/introduccion.html.
Self-Portrait as Child with Father ( novella-length hypermedia composition). The Iowa Review Web. 26 March
1999. http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/edward_falco/webpages/selfportrait.html.
A Dream with Demons (novel). Computer disk. Cambridge: Eastgate Systems, 1997.
Reviewed in Washington Post Book World (October 5, 1997), Salt Hills Review (Winter, 1997),
American Book Review (Cover review, March-April 1998), Hipertulia (July, 1998), Techno Pop
Culture (Feb, 1999)
Sea Island (poems). Computer disk. The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext 2.1 (Summer, 1995).
Reviewed in Pif Magazine (March, 2000)
HONORS AND AWARDS
2014, Cleveland Plain Dealer “Entertainment Year in Review,” ranks Possum Dreams among the 10 best
plays performed on Cleveland’s stages in 2014. http://bit.ly/1zuP7dg
2011-2012 Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human
Sciences.
English Department Research Assignment, Fall 2012.
2011 Pushcart Prize Special Mention for "An Elliptical Essay on Violence," an essay originally published in
The Virginia Quarterly Review.
2009 Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship in Playwriting.
2008 Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry. Awarded by The Southern Review to “celebrate annually the
best work to appear in our pages.”
2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction.
2008 Albert L. Sturm Award for Faculty Excellence in the Creative Arts, awarded for Sabbath Night in the
Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories.
2008 Yaddo Residency, 18 June – 29 July.
2006 Library of Virginia Fiction Literary Award: Honorable Mention, Sabbath Night in The Church of the
Piranha.
2006 Southeastern Independent Bookseller’s Association Book of the Year Award, finalist for Wolf Point.
2006 Winter Read This! Selection from the Litblog Co op, finalist for Sabbath Night in the Church of the
Piranha.
New York Times Editors’ Choice, November 6, 2005: Wolf Point (Unbridled Books, 2005).
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2005 October Book Sense Pick & 2005 Highlighted Title: Wolf Point (Unbridled Books, 2005).
2005 September Book Sense Pick: Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories
(Unbridled Books, 2005).
English Department Research Assignment, 2005.
2004 Ensemble Studio Theater Playwriting Residency, Summer Conference, 8/2/04 – 8/6/04.2003
2002 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship.
2002 Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship.
2000 Best American Mystery Stories selection for “The Instruments of Peace,” originally published in
Playboy.
1999 Pushcart Prize awarded for “The Revenant,” originally published in The Southern Review.
1999 Best American Erotica selection for "Tell Me What It Is," originally published in Seven Hundred Kisses:
A Yellow Silk Book of Erotic Writing .
1998 Best American Mystery Stories' list of "Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 1997”: “Drunks”
(The Antioch Review).
English Department Research Assignment, Fall 1998.
1997 O’Leary Awards Prize Stories Anthology list of “50 Honorable Mention Stories”: “Ax,” originally
published in The North Dakota Quarterly.
1997 Paterson Fiction Prize, finalist for Acid (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).
1996 Best American Short Stories' list of “100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1995”: “Acid” (TriQuarterly),
“The Requirements of Flight” (Southwest Review), and “Smugglers” (Ploughshares).
The Richard Sullivan Prize, 1995. (Awarded for Acid, a collection of stories. Valerie Sayers and William
O'Rourke were the final judges.)
Virginia Commission for the Arts, Project Grant for Individual Artists, 1995 (Awarded for "Smugglers," a
short story.)
1995 Best American Short Story selection for "The Artist," originally published in The Atlantic Monthly.
1995 Pushcart Prize Special Mention for "Acid," a short story originally published in TriQuarterly.
1994 National Magazine Award in Fiction, “The Artist,” a short story published in The Atlantic Monthly.
1993 Pushcart Prize Special Mention for "Radon," a short story originally published in The Virginia Quarterly
Review.
Virginia Commission for the Arts, Project Grant for Individual Artists, 1992 (Awarded for the opening
chapters of A Dream with Demons.)
Hampden-Sydney Playwriting Award, 1992 (Awarded for Home Delivery, an original, full-length play.)
Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 1992.
The Governor's Screenwriting Award, 1991 (Awarded for The Groom, a screenplay adapted from Winter in
Florida. The final judges for the Governor's Screenwriting Award competition were Robert Cort, Barry
Levinson, and Steven Spielberg.)
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English Department Research Assignment, Fall 1991.
St. Andrews Review's Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction, 1989.
John Atherton Scholar in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1988.
The Virginia Quarterly Review's Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction, 1986.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Faculty, Converse College Low-residency MFA Program (January 2013)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Professor of English, 1998-present)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Associate Professor of English, 1990-1998)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Assistant Professor of English, 1988-1990)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Instructor of English, 1984-1988)
LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York (Adjunct Instructor of English, 1982-1984)
Syracuse University (Part-time Instructor of English, 1979-1984)
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, New York (Adjunct Instructor of English, 1979-1982)
Syracuse University (Teaching Assistant, 1977-1979)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Director, Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, 2007 – 2012
MFA Faculty Committee, 2007 Creative Writing Committee, 2002 –
Personnel Committee 2006 - 2007
Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Teaching Committee, 2002 – 2004
MFA Task Force, 2002 – 2003
Creative Writing Task Force, 1992-2001
Coordinator, Visiting Writers Series, 1989-2001
College of Arts and Sciences Service Planning Committee, 1993-1994
Chair, Creative Writing Committee, 1989-1992
Creative Writing Committee, 1987-1989
Graduate Student Adviser, 1985-1987
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COURSES TAUGHT
Editing a Literary Journal, Form and Theory of Fiction, New Media Creative Writing Workshop, Graduate
Fiction Workshop, Graduate Playwriting Workshop, Introduction to Creative Writing, Creative Writing:
Fiction, Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction, Creative Writing: Poetry, Screenwriting, Playwriting,
Modern American Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Fiction,
Masterpieces of American Literature, 1850-1900
Special Topics in Fiction: The Contemporary Short Story, The Short Short Story and the Prose Poem,
Literary Journals and Contemporary Writing, Contemporary Fiction
Minicourses: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, The Major Novels of William Faulkner, Chekhov's
Short Fiction, Modern British and American Poetry, Contemporary Short Fiction, Contemporary
American Poetry, Freshman Composition, Developmental Freshman Composition (remedial program for
incoming students with poor writing skills), Expository Writing
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