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EDUCATION 2003 – 2006 The Ohio State University Columbus, OH MFA Creative Writing – Poetry Served as Associate Poetry Editor and Poetry Review Editor for The Journal. GTA – Taught English 110 & 110L. GAA – Designed print advertisements and poster for Creative Writing Program marketing. Helped organize student/faculty reading series and the OSU Press/The Journal Poetry Prize. Awarded University Fellowship. Awarded Thesis Fellowship. Baltimore, MD
2000 – 2001 Johns Hopkins University MA Creative Writing – Poetry GTA – Taught Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I. Organized weekly graduate student reading series.
Served as judge for the undergraduate literary magazine Zeniada’s fiction contest.
1994 – 1998 Alfred University Alfred, NY BA English Literature; Minor in Environmental Studies Semester abroad at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Graduated cum laude. Founding member of Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, 1997-8. Founded The Lyceum, Student Literary Society.
PUBLICATIONS Poetry Chapbooks: How to Paint the Savior Dead. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2007. Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. San Jose, CA: Dream Horse Press, 2003. (“Tower of Babel” reprinted on Verse Daily 5 Dec. 2003 .) Individual poems: “Atlantis” and “Crossing the Border.” The American Poetry Review. (Forthcoming). “Your Art History.” Frostproof Review 3 (Winter 2006).
“Memento Amori” and “Stone Goddess.” Barrow Street. (Winter 2006). “Love Song with Singing” and “The World’s First Photograph.” Confrontation 94/5 (Spring/Summer 2006): 235-6. “Sciomancy” and “Year of the Hyenas.” The National Poetry Review 4 (Spring/Summer 2005): 22-3. “My Daughter as the Angel Gabriel in the Tableau Vivant of Van Grap’s Annunciation.” Image 45 (Spring 2005): 20. “Letter to the Unconverted.” The Kenyon Review 26.4 (Fall 2004): 50. “The Little Sphinx.” Iron Horse Literary Review 6.1 (Fall 2004): 55-6. “Ahoy!” American Poetry Journal 1.1 (Spring/Summer 2004): 35 (Reprinted on Verse Daily 21 July 2004 .) “A Generic Pietà,” “The Old Balladeer Retires…” and “You Put Your Right Hand In, You Take Your Left Hand Out.” Smartish Pace 9 (October 2003): 18-20. “Chagall in Heaven.” 32 Poems 1.2 (Fall 2003): 14. “Origami Zoo.” Washington Square 12 (Summer 2003): 59. “Adam’s Tongue.” Literary Imagination 4.2 (Spring 2002): 212. “The Nature Trail.” The Sewanee Theological Review 45.1 (Christmas 2001): 90-1. “Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo.” The Threepenny Review 22.3 (Fall 2001): 3. “Open Letter.” The Presbyterian Record 125.4 (April 2001): 46. “The Snow Leopard.” Poetry 176.5 (August 2000): 270. Anthologies: “Tower of Babel.” FlatCity. Columbus, OH: FlatCity Press, 2005. “Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo” and “The Snow Leopard.” And We the Creatures. San Jose, CA: Dream Horse Press, 2003. (“Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo” reprinted on Verse Daily 10 Feb. 2003 .) Nonfiction Critical Essays: “Rick Bass.” American Writers. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner’s. (Forthcoming). “Winesburg, Ohio.” American Writers Classics. Vol. II. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner’s, 2004: 303-18. “Long Day’s Journey into Night.” American Writers Classics. Vol. I. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner’s, 2003: 109-24. Book reviews: Interview with a Ghost by Tom Sleigh and Muse in the Machine by T.R. Hummer. The Southern Review 43.2 (Spring 2007). “Looking Out and Looking In: Four Poets of Nature and the Spirit.” The Cincinnati Review 2.2 (Spring 2006): 187-197. The Sea by John Banville. The Missouri Review 29.3 (Spring 2006): 162-3. This Minute by Jean Gallagher. The Journal 30.1 (Spring/Summer 2006): 130-1. The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks by Steven Haven. Shenandoah 55.2 (Fall 2005): 155-7. Chez Nous by Angie Estes. The National Poetry Review 5 (Fall/Winter 2005): 44-6. Ocean by Neil Azevedo. The Journal 29.2 (Autumn/Winter 2005). The Clerk’s Tale by Spencer Reece. The National Poetry Review 4 (Spring/Summer 2005). To the Green Man by Mark Jarman. The Journal 29.1 (Spring/Summer 2005). 124-5. Oracle Figures by Eric Pankey. Smartish Pace. 4 Nov. 2003 . The Lords of Misrule by X.J. Kennedy. Smartish Pace. 19 Feb. 2003 . 2
The Darkness and the Light by Anthony Hecht. Smartish Pace. 30 Nov. 2002 . After All by William Matthews and Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins. Prairie Schooner 75.1 (Spring 2001): 189-95. Journalism: “In the Garden of Editorial Delights.” Contemporary Literature site. About.com. 23 Aug. 2001 . “An Artist’s Dream.” Contemporary Literature site. About.com. 13 June 2001 . With David Sherwin. “Designing & Promoting a Conference Web Site.” The Director 8.2 (Spring 2000): 11-2. “AU’s Man of Letters.” Profile of Marvin Bell. Alfred Magazine (Winter 1999): 29.
Interviews Mark Jarman. The Writer’s Chronicle. (February 2007): 46-51. Richard Wilbur. The Missouri Review 27.3 (Winter 2004): 35-48.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2004 – 2005 The Ohio State University Columbus, OH Graduate Teaching Associate Taught several sections of English 110: First Year Writing, a composition course designed to teach cultural and visual analysis along with writing skills. Spring & Summer 2003 Montgomery College Germantown, MD Adjunct Professor Taught Techniques of Reading and Writing I & II, which considered the personal essay, and research and argumentative writing. Fall 2001 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Lecturer (Also Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2001) Taught Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I, a combined workshop and literature course discussing the work of Welty, Frost, Justice, James, Nabokov, and Brooks.
AWARDS & HONORS Winner of 2006 Wick Chapbook Prize. Winner of 2003 National Chapbook Prize from Dream Horse Press. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize (“The Little Sphinx” by Iron Horse Literary Review and “Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo” by Dream Horse Press). 3
Awarded a 2003 Individual Artist Award for Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. Manuscript, Photographing Eden, finalist or semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, The Kenyon Review Prize for Poetry, the Pleiades Press Award, the Hollis Summers Prize, the Tupelo Press First Book Award, and the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award. Finalist for 2005 Arts & Letters Poetry Prize. Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2002). University Fellowship at The Ohio State University (2003-4). Thesis Fellowship at The Ohio State University (Winter 2006).
READINGS Red Weather Reading Series, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA, September 13, 2007. Café Muse Reading Series, Chevy Chase, MD, April 9, 2007. Writers’ Harvest, Ruby Tuesday, Columbus, OH, November 17, 2005. FlatCity Anthology Launch, Columbus, OH, July 30, 2005. Mother Tongue, Barley’s Underground, Columbus, OH, May 2005. Student/Faculty Reading Series, 311 Denney Hall, Columbus, OH, November 2004. Smartish Pace Reading Series, Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, March 2004. Mother Tongue, Barley’s Underground, Columbus, OH, November 2003. Writers’ Harvest, Ruby Tuesday, Columbus, OH, November 2003. Harford Poetry and Literary Society, Rockfield Manor House, Bel Air, MD, August 2002. MD State Arts Council Reading, ArtsFest, Baltimore, MD, July 2002. Candid Yak, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 1998. Honors Thesis Reading, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, December 1997.
PROFESSIONAL/ADMINIS TRATIVE EXPERIENCE Journals Manager, The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, March 07 – present. Visiting Poet, Alfred University Writing Conference, Alfred, NY, March 31 – April 2, 2006. Visiting Writer, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, December 8, 2005. Associate Poetry Editor, The Journal, Columbus, OH, 2005 – 06. Advertising Assistant, OSU Creative Writing Dept., Columbus, OH, 2005 – 06. Poetry Review Editor, The Journal, Columbus, OH, 2003 – 05. Organizer, OSU Creative Writing Dept. Student/Faculty Reading Series, 2004 – 06. Organizer, Mother Tongue Reading Series, Columbus, OH, 2004 – 05. Manuscript Screener, OSU Press’s Poetry and Short Fiction prizes, 2003 – 06. Judge, Zeniada’s Fiction Contest, Spring 2001. Organizer, Graduate Student Reading Series, Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2000 – 01. Assistant Editor, The Writer’s Chronicle, Associated Writing Programs, Fairfax, VA, Aug. 1999 – June 2000.
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