About
I teach writing courses for the English Department, the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program and Sweetland, where I also serve as a consultant in the Writing Workshop. I returned to teaching for the University of Michigan in 2012 after several years away, during which time I worked in proposals and marketing for businesses, taught creative writing to elementary and high school students, toured occasionally as a poet, and played many games with my two kids (now teenagers).
My first book of poems, Wait 'Til You Have Real Problems, was published by Dzanc Books in Fall 2014. My chapbook, The Octopus, won the 2015 Gertrude Press Poetry Chapbook Contest and was published in 2016. My poems have appeared in many journals, and were awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2013 and two Hopwood Awards in the 1990s. I co-authored Underneath: The Archaeological Approach to Creative Writing with Jeff Kass (Red Beard Press, 2011).
Fields of Study/Research Interests
Writing, Poetry
Courses/Teaching Assignments
Writing 120: College Writing for Multilingual Writers
LHSP 125: Writing and Seeing
Writing 302: Global Communication
Writing Workshop
Writing 201: The Rhetoric of Blogging
Writing 201: The Rhetoric of Online Dating
Writing 100: Transition to College Writing
English 125: Writing and Academic Inquiry (Living Arts section)
LHSP 130: Extravagant Nonsense
LHSP 230: Poetry, Magic, and Science
Award(s)
2014 Pushcart Prize
Winner of the 2015 Gertrude Press Poetry Chapbook Contest
Finalist in the 2012 ABZ Press First Book Poetry Contest, ABZ Press
Finalist in the 2011-12 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Book Prize, Pleiades Press
1996 Hopwood Major Poetry Award, University of Michigan
1994 Hopwood Minor Poetry Award, University of Michigan
