Education
- Ph.D, University of Mississippi
- MFA, Bowling Green State University
- BA, Methodist University
- AA, Fayetteville Technical Community College
Courses Taught
- Professional Studies in English Education
- Methods of Teaching Literature
- Methods of Teaching Writing
- Teaching Language Arts in Secondary Schools
- Senior Seminar in Teaching English
- Advanced Methods, Ethics, and Law
Research Interests
- Willa Cather
- Trauma theory
- Literary biography
- Creative nonfiction and poetry
- 19th and 20th c. American literature
Publications
- Poetry Collected and Anthologized
- “Nothing But the Kitchen Sink.” Sunrise from Blue Thunder Anthology, edited by Millicent Borges Accardi, Pirene’s Fountain, 2011.
- Selected Poems. The Next of Us is About to Be Born, edited by Maggie Anderson, Kent State University Press, 2009.
- Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle. Kent State University Press, 2004.
- Leaping from the Bottom Step. National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 1997.
- Selected Poems & Essays in Journals
- “On Choosing Childlessness.” Moon City Review, Spring 2013, p. 183.
- “A Different Kind of Truth,” Creative Nonfiction, Summer, vol. 42, 2011.
- “Mr. Takaji Being Photographed.” Naugatuck River Review, Summer 2010, p. 60.
- Review of On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather, by David Porter. Resources for American Literary Study, vol. 33, 2010.
- Review of Carta Marina, by Ann Fisher-Wirth. Emprise Review, May 2010.
- “Traffic Jam Litany.” Quarter After Eight, vol. 11/12, 2006, p. 188.
- “Hover.” Northwest Florida Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 2003, p. 68.
- “Scene of a Boy About to be Killed by an Oncoming Train.” Beacon Street Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 2003, p. 88.
- “The Burning of Clavelle, Clockmaker, 1816.” Chattahoochee Review, vol. 24, no. 1, 2003, p. 76.
- “Winter.” Poems & Plays, vol. 10, 2003, p. 14.
- Book Chapter
- “‘At the Center of her Mystery’: Willa Cather and Sexual Trauma.” Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007, pp. 137-148.
- Editorial Projects – Digital Journal Builds
- Cosmogamy. Texas A&M University, 2017 [in development].
- The Ash Literary Journal.Ashford University, 2015, http://ash-ashford.com.
- Ashford Humanities Review. Ashford University, 2015, http://ahr-ashford.com.
- Valley Humanities Review. Lebanon Valley College, 2008, http://www.lvc.edu/vhr.
