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Education
M.F.A., Vermont College, 1995
M.A., Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College, 1984
B.A., cum laude, Mount Holyoke College, 1976
Scholarly Focus
Creative Writing: Fiction
Publications
Books
How To Stop Loving Someone , Leapfrog Press, 2011
The World Before Mirrors, River Teeth Award Series in Nonfiction , University of Nebraska, 2006
History Lessons , University of Massachusetts Press, AWP Award Series in Short Fiction, 2003; Frederick Busch, Judge
We Who Live Apart , University of Missouri Press, 2910 Le Mone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201, August, 2000
Here On Old Route 7 , University of Missouri Press, 2910 LeMone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201, August, 1997
Anthologies
“Good People,” story, Chautaqua Literary Arts Anthology , 2008
“Lilac,” essay, The Art of the Word , 2008
“In My Booth,” Censored: The Best of What We Couldn’t Publish , Spire Press, NYNY, 2005
“Sea Change,” Blueline Anthology: 1981-2001 , spring, 2004
“Forsaken Places,” Ohio Connections, the Literary Homecoming Project , Ohioana Library & Thurber House, fall, 2003
“What It Is,” Pushcart Anthology XXVIII , October, 2003
Selected Journals: Stories
“The Stripper,” The Worcester Review , 2008
“Red Planets,” The Journal of Arts & Letters , 2008
“The Un-naming,” Colere , 2007
“The Angel of Repose,” BlueLine , 2007
“Wonderful Counselor,” Chelsea , 2006
“The Wild Dog,” The Fourth River , 2006
“The Landmark Hotel,” The Antioch Review , 2006
“Short Shorts,” The Idaho Review , winter, 2005
“The Folly of Being Comforted,” TriQuarterly , fall, 2005
“Summer Nights,” The Village Rambler , spring, 2005
“Funeral,” The Village Rambler , spring, 2005
“Wheather,” Branches Quarterly, issue 4, spring, 2005
“Men in Brown,” Glimmer Train , spring, 2005
“Finding Carla,” Lake Effect , spring, 2005
“How We Say Goodbye,” Harpur Palate , spring, 2005
“Palimpsest,” The Gettysburg Review , spring, 2005
“The Three Minute Love Story,” The Big Muddy , fall, 2004
“When the Boys Come Out to Play,” Colere , summer, 2004
“Old-Timers’ Night,” BlueLine , spring, 2004
“Abandoned Shoe,” Terra Incognita , fall, 2004
“The Night Cafe,” 580 Split , spring, 2004
“Creative Writing,” Inkwell , summer, 2004
“If It Is Bad, It Happens To Me,” Hunger Mountain , Vermont Writers Issue, spring, 2004
“The Painbroker,” Chautauqua Literary Arts Journal , spring, 2004
“Outlander,” Branches Quarterly , April, 2003
“The Locked Room,” from Vermont Trilogy, Full Circle, A Journal of Poetry and Prose , April, 2003, www.fullcirclejml.com
“Under the Rainbow,” Chelsea Magazine , spring, 2003
“The Year of No Weather,” Green Mountain Journal , fall, 2003
Essays
“Three Trips,” The Connecticut Review , 2007
“Colonel Andreas van Kuijk,” Under the Sun , 2007
“Love at Forthy,” The Pisgah Review , 2006
“The World Before Mirrors,” The Gettysburg Review , spring, 2005
“Abandoned Shoe,” Terra Incognita , winter, 2005
‘An Open Door,” The Ohio Writer , fall, 2004
“For Geraldine,” The Redwood Coast Review , fall, 2004
“Masque,” Under the Sun , spring, 2004
“The Waiting Room,” River Teeth , spring, 2004
“Bone Key,” Black Warrior , fall, 2003
“Forsaken Places,” Mid-American Review , spring, 2003
“Writing and Telepathy,” The Journal of Arts & Letters , spring, 2003
Book Reviews
The Body of Brooklyn , Fourth Genre, fall, 2003
Evening Will Find Me , Katie Estill, The Ohio Writer, fall, 2000
Milltown Natural , Richard Hague, The Ohio Writer, winter, 1998
The Nature of Longing , Alyce Miller, Chelsea Magazine, fall, 1995
The Circles I Move In , Diane Lefer, Chelsea Magazine, fall, 1995
Readings
Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2008
Green Mountain Writers Conference, July, 2007
Gettysburg College Writers Conference, June, 2007
Virginia Commonwealth University, February, 2007
Green Mountain Writers Conference, July, 2006
Gettysburg College, September, 2005
Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2005
Annie’s Book Stop, Rutland, Vermont, August, 2005
Frostburg State University, April, 2005
Hotel Amerika Benefit Reading, fall, 2004
Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2004
Mount Holly Historical Association, Belmont, Vermont, August, 2004
Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont, August, 2004
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI., March, 2004
Summerfest, Killington, Vermont, August, 2003
Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2003
Wired for Books, November, 2003
The Writers’ Harvest, October, 2003
West Virginia Writers Workshop, July, 2003
Book King, Green Mountain Journal Reading, March 3, 2003
Professional History
Professor, (Promotion granted, 2005) Ohio University 2005 – current
Professor, University of Southern Maine, Low Residency MFA Program, Summer, 2002 - current
Director, Creative Writing, Ohio University, 2003 - 2008
Interim Co-director, University of Southern Maine, summer, 2004
Associate Professor, (Tenure granted, 2001), Ohio University, 2001 - 2005
Assistant Professor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1996 - 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fiction Writing, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio,1995-1996.
Courses Taught
- Graduate and Undergraduate fiction workshops
- Form and Theory, Nonfiction
- Classes on Minimalism
- Critical Approaches to the Fairy Tale
- The Erotics of Literature
- Evil and Literature
- Comic Writing
- De(re)constructing Love
- The Rhetoric of Point-of-View
- and others
Other Professional Activities
Green Mountain Writers’ Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2008
Green Mountain Writers’ Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2007
Workshop Leader/Reader/Lecturer, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Writers’ Conference, 2007
Final Judge, Best New American Voices fiction prize, VCU, 2007
External Reviewer, University of Iowa Press, November, 2006
Green Mountain Writers Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2006
Member, Pen American Center, 2006 to 2008
Member AWP, 1995 to current
Advisory Board, reader, Review Americana: A Literary Journal,
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Culture, 2006 - current
Short Story, “What It Is,” featured story, the Writers Studio, NYNY, 2005
Nonfiction Editor, Hotel Amerika, 2005 - 2006
Green Mountain Writers Conference, 2005, Panelist and Workshop leader,
Green Mountain Writers Conference, 2004, Panelist and Workshop leader
Student Elected Keynote Speaker, first graduating class, Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing, July, 2004
Collaboration, Orchestral Composition, Ohio University Bicentennial, 2004
Reader and Speaker, Summerfest, Killington, Vermont, August, 2003
Final Judge, Dogwood Fiction Contest, January, 2004
Green Mountain Writers Conference, Panelist and Workshop Leader, August, 2003
West Virginia Writers Workshop, Reader, Workshop Leader, July, 2003
Judge, University of Missouri, McKinney Fiction Contest Contributing Editor, Hotel Amerika, fall, 2002 - 2006
Green Mountain Writers Conference, Panelist and Workshop Leader, August, 2002
Vermont League of Writers, Lecturer and Workshop Leader, Poultney, Vermont, July 2002
Kenyon College, English Honors Program, Outside Examiner, April 27 - 28, 2002
Longman Reviewer, The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, Dana Gioia, R.S. Gwynn, 2002
Prentice Hall Reviewer, Creative Writer’s Handbook, 3rd ed., Philip K. Jason, Allen B. Lefkowitz, 2001
Judge, fiction contest, Chelsea Magazine, June, 2002
Workshop Leader, Green Mountain Writers Conference, summer, 2001
Judge, fiction contest, Chelsea Magazine, June, 2001
Workshop Leader, Ohio Valley Literary Group, January, 2001
Workshop Leader, Green Mountain Writers Conference, summer, 2000
Judge, AWP Contest, fiction, 2000
Workshop Leader, Panelist, Lecturer, Green Mountain Writers’ Conference, August, 1999
Final Judge, Fiction Contest, New England Writers, July, 1999
Judge, Fiction Contest, Chelsea Magazine, June, 1999
Manuscript Editor, The Chautauqua Writers’ Center, summer, 1999
Paper presented, “Beginnings,” AWP Pedagogy Forum Board Member, New England Writers Association, 1998 - 2002
Judge, Fiction Contest, Chelsea Magazine, July, 1998
Final Judge, Fiction, The Ohio Writer Contest, June, 1998
Final Judge, New England Writers Conference, Shortshort Contest, summer, 1998
Guest, Question & Answer, Story Writing, Critical Approaches to Fiction, O.U., May, 1998
Final Judge, Ellis Literary Award, Myrtle Armstrong Prize for Fiction, Indiana University, February, 1998
Fiction Workshop Leader, Chautauqua Arts Center, summer 1997
Fiction Workshop Leader, New England Writers Conference, July 1997,Windsor, VT
Panelist, New England Writers Conference, July 1996, Windsor, VT
First Reader, Fiction MSS., Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY, 1996
Mentor, Young Writers’ Institute, Hartford, CT, 1994 - 2002
Assistant Editor, fiction, Chelsea Magazine, NYNY, 1994 - 1996