Competition judge Anne Barngrover says "I was struck from the first
sentence by the crystalline narrative voice--sometimes uncanny,
sometimes weird, but always precise, unflinching, and painfully
self-aware--and the experimentation with form as a way to dig deeper and
question ideas of religion, family, place, community, masculinity,
death, and the self. These essays, and their narrator, wouldn't shake
from me after I read them. I wholeheartedly recommend Baptizing the Dead
and Other Jobs."