Curriculum Vitae
Courses Taught
• Write Now!
• Missives: Writing Poems as Letters, Summer 2005
• A Midsummer Night's Murder Mystery: A Poetry Drama in Form, Spring-Summer
2005
• Jump Start Your Writing, Highline Community College, April 2005
• Risk & Reward, Winter 2005
• Poetry Workshops, Fall 2004
• Writing Poetry in Form, Summer 2004
• Odes & Ecstasy, June/July 2004
• Bringing the Strange Home: Adventures in Poetry Writing, Spring
2004
• Love Poetry, Winter 2004
• High-Speed Writing, Fall 2003
• Journal Writing, Fall 2003
• Short Story Writing, Fall 2002
• Poetry Writing, Fall 2002
• Antioch University: Graduate Senior Seminar, "High-Speed, High-Adrenaline
Writing," June 2003
Education
MFA Creative Writing, June 2003
Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA
Fun Lake, a novel and poetry: Final Manuscript
Political Poetry in America: My Exploration into Smashing Prejudices and Widening
its Frame: Critical Paper
"High-Speed, High-Adrenaline Writing": Senior Seminar
Teaching Experience
• Private workshop leader and individual mentor,
Write Now!, Seattle, WA, 2002 to present.
• Writing Mentor, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA, 2001 - 2003.
• Teaching Assistant, Political Science Department, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, 1985.
Relative Coursework
Antioch University:
• Readings in the Pedagogy of Creative Writing, June 2003
• Teaching Academic Writing: An Overview of Theory and Practice, Dec
2002
• Teaching Creative Writing to Marginalized Students, December 2001
• Orientation to the Pedagogy of Creative Writing, June 2001
Publications
Forthcoming:
• "Breakup Sonnet," Kiss & Tell Anthology of
Breakup Poems
Past Pubs:
Poetry in Literary Journals:
• Interview with Ilya Kaminsky. Cranky, Fall 2004
• "The Things We Did: New York City." Cranky, Winter
2004
• "Heart Attacked" and "Airborne." 4th Street,
July/August 2003
• "Love Sick." Crimson Crane. Issue One, 2001
Magazines & Papers:
ELLE, Seattle P.I., Mademoiselle, Ray Gun, Maxim, Seattle Weekly, Eastside Week,
Seattle, The Stranger, Detour
Works in Progress
• Untitled: poems.
• Fun Lake: a novel about a fifteen-year-old girl juggling
personas and navigating through her family's world of secrets. First draft of
200 pages complete.
Additional Professional Experience
• Creative Director, ePods Internet Company, Seattle,
WA, 1999 - 2000
• Writer and Editor, Ark Interface, Seattle, WA, 1997 - 1999
• Writer and Editor, Corbis Corporation, Seattle, 1996 - 1997
• Writer and Editor, Radio Aahs Online, New York, NY, 1995 - 1996
• Freelance Writer & Editor , Seattle & New York, 1992 - 1996
• Associate Editor, ELLE Magazine, New York, NY, 1987 - 1991
• Research Assistant and Analyst for 30-Second Politics: Political
Advertising in the Eighties by Montague Kern. (NY: Praeger, 1989). Washington,
D.C., 1984 - 1985
Professional Memberships
Associated Writing Programs
Additional Writing Programs & Conferences
• University of Washington Extension Certificate
Program: Poetry & Fiction Writing
• Squaw Valley Community of Writers Conference: Fiction, Memoir
• Mentor, Richard Hugo's After School Creative Writing Alliance, Seattle
• Kamiakin Junior High visiting poet
• Highline Community College guest lecturer & panel member
• Kellogg Middle School visiting writer
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