* University of Nevada, Las Vegas, MFA in Creative Writing International (Las Vegas, NV / 2008 – 2012)
* Tin House Summer Writers Workshop (Portland, OR / 2009)
* Juniper Summer Writing Institute (Amherst, MA / 2009)
* University of California, Berkeley Extension, Fiction Writing Workshop (San Francisco, CA / 1996)
* The Writing Parlor, Fiction Workshop (San Francisco, CA / 1995)