I’m an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, and painter, with Simon & Schuster, The New Yorker, Forbes, Gourmet, Bellevue Literary Press, Dzanc Books, University of Chicago Press, and other university, independent, and small presses among my clients.
Of all the things I’ve done as a visual artist, from illustrations for The New Yorker to writing and illustrating children’s books to drawing story boards for movies and doing caricatures aboard the QE2, none have given me more joy than designing book covers. As the author of several books of my own, I know how meaningful and powerful a well-designed cover can be. It saddens me when a worthy book, one that its author may have put years into, doesn’t get the cover it deserves. At least as much training, artistry, and skill that go into a book’s cover as went into what’s inside. Knowing InDesign doesn’t make one a designer.
When not designing covers for other people’s books, I’m writing my own. My short story collection, Drowning Lessons, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction. My most recent novel, A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize, Georgia’s top literary award.
I live in Milledgeville, Georgia, where I teach creative writing and graphic design at Georgia College & State University.
I’m an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, and painter, with Simon & Schuster, The New Yorker, Forbes, Gourmet, Bellevue Literary Press, Dzanc Books, University of Chicago Press, and other university, independent, and small presses among my clients.
Of all the things I’ve done as a visual artist, from illustrations for The New Yorker to writing and illustrating children’s books to drawing story boards for movies and doing caricatures aboard the QE2, none have given me more joy than designing book covers. As the author of several books of my own, I know how meaningful and powerful a well-designed cover can be. It saddens me when a worthy book, one that its author may have put years into, doesn’t get the cover it deserves. At least as much training, artistry, and skill that go into a book’s cover as went into what’s inside. Knowing InDesign doesn’t make one a designer.
When not designing covers for other people’s books, I’m writing my own. My short story collection, Drowning Lessons, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction. My most recent novel, A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize, Georgia’s top literary award.
I live in Milledgeville, Georgia, where I teach creative writing and graphic design at Georgia College & State University.
