Education

• D.A. Idaho State University
• M.A. Idaho State University
• B.A. Idaho State University

Research

• Writing Pedagogy and Theory: Composition, Business Communications, Creative Writing
• Contemporary British Fiction
• Creative Writing, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction
• Genre Theory and Criticism: Comedy, the Novel

Publications

• Scholarly Publications

  • Thinking About Audience: An Exercise in Rhetoric 2008 in Innovation Abstracts, 2008
  • Collecting Our Selves: An Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Project The Journal for Civic Commitment. Jan. 2009.
  • Voices of Resilience: Breast Cancer Survivors Narratives from the Mohawk Valley. Edited in collaboration with Dr. Joanne Joseph and the After Breast Cancer Group. Utica: Burns Publishing, 2009.

• Creative Publications

  • 2017 January -- The Occupant published by Finishing Line Press
  • 2017 Summer – Finalist, Ray Ventre Contest, Passages North Literary Journal for “Toast: A Love Story”

  • Ethos Literary Magazine, Spring 1998: Spring Fling

  • Ethos Literary Magazine, Spring 1999: Occasional Visits We Are Like This
  • Ethos Literary Magazine, Spring 2001: Thinking Back . . . (Winner, Ethos Award for Best Graduate Student Writing
  • CityArt, 2001. Underwater (poem)
  • Adagio Verse Quarterly November/December 2006 : selected poems
  • Arsenic Lobster, second serving. Spring 2002: The Life of the Shepherd
  • RiverWalk Journal. January/February 2007 selected prose and poetry: Spring Fling and Zoology
  • Breadcrumb Scabs Poetry Journal. May 2009. The Story of Us homewreck, Winterish, Not On My Life
  • Yes, Poetry. March 2010 This is not a poem about Icarus, alien, My Love Monster
  • Poets Against the War: Diary of an Army Wife at http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org
  • The Joy Of Overhearing at http://thisibelieve.org/essay/45061/
  • Comstock Review 2011 Jessie Bryce Niles Chap Book Competition Special Merit Status for The Occupant

Presentations

• Composition Theory
• Composition Pedagogy
• Service-Learning in College Writing Classes
• Contemporary British and American Fiction and Poetry
• Creative Writing (poetry and memoir) (audience: general public)