- Contact
- Academic History
Washburn University, Lecturer, Summer 2006 - present
Washburn University, Adjunct, Fall 2005
- Scholarly Interests/Activities
- Fiction, Belles Lettres, Literature, Women's Literature, Creative non-fiction, Poetry Charter member of the Prairie Poets, National Conferences: AWP, CCCC.
- Service Interests/Activities
Associated Writers and Writing Programs
Academy of American Poets
PEN, Associate Member
MLA
Center for Kansas Studies, Page Turner Fellow
Woodley Memorial Press, Board Member, Co-Managing Editor (-2011)
- Career Accomplishments
Publications:
Barron’s fiction, creative non-fiction, & poetry have appeared in literary journals including New Letters, Terrain, The Bennington Review, The Little Balkans Review, Midwest Quarterly, Chicken Bones, etc.
Anthologies containing her work: Begin Again (poetry), “Hunting for Arrowheads,” 2011.
Voices of the Great Plains (poetry & creative non-fiction), “Grassland,” “Natural Variables,” 2011.
Kansas Voices (fiction), “Chocolate Pudding,” 2000.
Author of Thirst: A novel, published in 2022 through Sea Crow Press.
Awards and Other Professional Accomplishments:
*KPR Presents: audio reading as part of National Poetry Month, excerpt of “Grassland” aired 8 April 2012.
*Finalist and publication Terrain Short Story Contest, “Controlled Burn”2011-2012.
*Numerous readings including in multiple Kansas locations with the Kansas poets from the Begin Again anthology, “Hunting for Arrowheads,” excerpt from “Grassland” 2011-2012.
*Voices of the Great Plains (non-fiction) reading at Washburn University, 26 October 2012.
*Symphony in the Flint Hills: Performed “Grassland” with the Prairie Poets, 11 June 2011.
*Finalist, Glimmer Train Fiction Contest, 2010.
*Finalist Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay “Natural Variables” New Letters 2010.
*Pushcart Prize nominee: 2010 “The Manners You Would Use for Strangers,” The Little Balkans Review.
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2017-2018
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2018-2019
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2018-2019
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2019-2020
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2019-2020
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2020-2021
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2021-2022
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