The 2001 short film The Other Side, directed by Mary Stuart Masterson, was based on his novelette, "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea".
He is a member of the Wordos writers' group and was a member of the fiction faculty at the MFA program in creative writing of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. He has taught fiction writing seminars in Denmark, Greece, Finland, and Portugal. In 2010 he taught at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest on a Fulbright grant.
Awards
1996: Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea"
1998: Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "Thirteen Ways to Water"
1998: Bram Stoker Award for short fiction for "The Dead Boy at Your Window"
1999: Pushcart Prize for "The Dead Boy at Your Window"
1999: Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship
2004: World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction for "Don Ysidro"
2006: World Fantasy Award for Collection for The Keyhole Opera[1]