Periodical Publications:
"Bird Bones" and "Featherweight." Perihelion 3.9 (May 2004).
"Manistee." The Portland Review 51.2 (Spring 2004).
"Salsa at the Belair Lounge." ACM 43 (Winter 2004).
"Show Pony" and "Velvet Season." Apalachee Review 52/53 (2003) 92-95.
"Sugar Beet" "One-Wing Eagle," and "Dirndl in a Tree." Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Revieu, 9.2 ( Summer/Fall 2003) 87-92.
"Slim." The Journal 27.1 (Spring/Summer2003) 43-44.
"Coyote." Bluesky Review 2 (Spring/Summer 2003) 28-29.
"Blue Spruce" and "Bird of Danger." Red Rock Review 13 (Spring 2003) 93-95.
"Anklebone." Puerto del Sol 38.1 (Spring 2003) 57-58.
"Girl in Chair." Sycamore Review (15th Anniversary Issue, Winter/Spring 2003) 139.
"Wheatfield Shag" and "A Ghazal." Good Foot 3 (2003) 102-104.
"Villanelle for Female Butchers." Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art by Women. Ed. Nina Corwin and Mary H. Ber Arlington Heights: Moon Journal Press. 2002.
"Housewarming." Plainsongs XXII 3 (April 2002): 6-7.
"A Western." Bluesky Review 1 (Winter2002): 16-17.
"Two." Notre Dame Review (Winter2002): 86-87.
"Fish in Winter." ACM (Fall 2001): 40-41.
"House of Bees." Wisconsin Review 35.2(2001):56-57.
"Razorback." Ploughshares 26.4 (Winter 2000-01, ed. Sherman Alexie): 37-38.
"Palomino." Rhino (2000): 76-77.
"The Baker." Whiskey Island Magazine 41 (1999): 44.
"The Rookery." Indiana Review 21.2 (Fall/Winter 1999): 4-5.
Forthcoming Publications:
"Man in Blue." American Literary Review (2004).
"Kicking It." Stray Dog 4 (June 2004).
"Dogs in the Woods." The Briar Cliff Review (Spring 2004).
Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:
Doctoral dissertation manuscript, Naked Girl in Tall Grass, named top-ten finalist for the Del Sol Press Poetry Prize, April 2004, Washington, D.C.
Naked Girl in Tall Grass, named finalist in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series, October 2003, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, PA.
Naked Girl in Tall Grass named Semifinalist for the 2003 Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry, Southern Illinois University.
Naked Girl in Tall Grass named Finalist for the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books, Farmington, ME.
First place winner of the Poetry Center of Chicago's 7th Annual Juried Reading competition, 2001.
Winner of the Frederick Stern Award for Excellence in Teaching, UIC, 2001.
Recipient of fellowship from the Chicago Union League Civic and Arts Foundation and the Ragdale Foundation, funding a residency at Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL, 1999.
Recipient of the 1998 Richard Devine Memorial Award, including tuition waiver and honorarium for a short poetry manuscript, Bowling Green State University.
Recipient of Academy of American Poets Prize with $ 100 honorarium for poem "Milk," The University of Michigan, 1996.
Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:
April 2004: Reading and panel discussion on Women and Poetry. Lewis University, Romeoville, IL.
April 2004: Reading of creative work, UIC Program for Writers reading series, Barbara's Bookstore, Chicago, IL.
April 2000-2004: Reading of creative work at the UIC high school poetry contest awards ceremony, for which I served as a judge. An annual event honoring young writers from communities throughout Illinois.
September 2002: Juried poetry reading at the Fall 2002 Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL. Event was a feature of the Poetry Center of Chicago's Discovery Reading Series.
May 2002: Juried reading at Woman Made Gallery featuring poetry and visual art about the body. Reading also served as a book release party for Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art hy Women.
October 2001: Participated in WFMT Chicago's Poem a Day project, reading a poem on the radio in conjunction with the Chicago Public Library's Back to Books Month.
March 2000: Public reading of creative work at RHINO release party, held at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL.
Recent Workshops:
Recent Workshops:
Ongoing: The University of Illinois at Chicago, English 210: "Introduction to Writing Poetry" (taught Fall 2000, Summer 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004).
April 2003: Led Rhino Forum community poetry workshop, Evanston Public Library. Gave a presentation on the theory and craft of List Poetry, and offered personalized comments to workshop participants.
2001-2002: Poet-in-Residence, Hands on Stanzas: Taught twenty poetry writing sessions for fourth, seventh, and eighth grade Chicago Public Schools students. Taught basic skills for reading and analyzing poems written in
English and Spanish, compiled two anthologies of student writing, and attended regular professional development seminars.
July 2001: Led Rhino Forum poetry workshop for Chicago area writers, Evanston Public Library. Presented on the poetry of Thylias Moss, and offered feedback to workshop participants.
Present Employment:
Lecturer of English, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Preferred Audience:
Mature, though has teen-friendly work, too.
Willing to travel:
Prefers in-state, but flexible
