B.A., Vassar College
M.F.A.,  Iowa

Office: Palamountain 310
Phone:(518) 580-8398
Email: ghrbek@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Fiction Writing
• Film 

Courses Taught:

• EN281: Intro to Fiction Writing
• EN363: Reading for Writers
• EN363: Fiction into Film
• EN380: Fiction Workshop

Publications:

• The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, a novel (Bard/Avon, 1999)
• Short fiction:  Harper's Magazine, Salmagundi, Idaho Review, Black Warrior Review, "Conjunctions" 
• "Bereavement" in The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories (Del Sol Press, 2007)
• "Sagittarius" in The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)
• Destroy All Monsters, stories (U of Nebraska Press, 2011)

Residencies:

• Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton