Neomodernist Curriculum Vitae

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

-- Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Education

M.F.A. (2000) Old Dominion University: Creative Writing, Poetry Emphasis
B.A. (1995) George Mason University: English, Creative Writing Emphasis; Minor: Eastern Philosophy; Secondary Field: Film & Media Studies

Artist-in-Residence: Buena Vista University, Winter 2003
Writers in Community Internship Program Coordinator, August 1999-May 2000
Writers in Community Intern: Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, January 1999-May 2000; Lafayette-Winona Middle School, September 1999-December 2000
MFA Reading Series Coordinator, Fall 1998

Adjunct Instructor. Old Dominion University, Spring 2007: English 127C: Honors English Composition II

Visiting Scholar. Buena Vista University, Winter 2006: The Confessional Form in Popular Culture from Sylvia Plath to MTV

Adjunct Instructor. Tidewater Community College, Fall 2005: English 112: English Composition II

Adjunct Instructor. Old Dominion University, Fall 2003: English 110C: English Composition

Artist-in-Residence. Buena Vista University, Winter 2003: 101 Uses for Poetry: A Practical Workshop

Instructor. Old Dominion University, Summer 2002: English 110C: English Composition; English 111C: English Compostion

Instructor. Old Dominion University, Spring 2002: English 111C: English Composition; English 127C: Honors English Compostion; English 144: American Writers, American Experiences; English 300: Introduction to Creative Writing

Instructor. Old Dominion University, Fall 2001: English 110C: English Composition (3 sections); English 126C: Honors English Compostion; English 112: Enjoying Literature

Adjunct Instructor. Old Dominion University, Summer 2001: English 111C: English Composition

Adjunct Instructor. Old Dominion University, Spring 2001: English 127C: Honors English Compostion (2 sections); English 112: Enjoying Literature

Adjunct Instructor. Old Dominion University, Fall 2000: English 050: Basic Writing; English 110C: English Composition; English 126C: Honors English Compostion; English 112: Enjoying Literature; English 352: Poetry Workshop (with Gary Short)

Graduate Teaching Assistant. Old Dominion University, Fall 1998-Spring 2000: English 110C: English Composition; English 352: Poetry Workshop (with Dr. Scott Cairns)

Graduate Teaching Assistant. Old Dominion University, Fall 1997-Spring 1998: Writing Tutorial Services

Poetry:: "This Happens," FOURSQUARE (forthcoming); "In My Secret Life I'm a Porn Star," Wicked Alice Print Issue 2006, September 2006; "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong," Gargoyle, Issue #51, Summer 2006; "Last Night I Had a Disturbing Dream about Tiny Cats," 32 Poems, Fall/Winter 2005; "Requiem for a Sideshow Attraction," Wicked Alice, Fall 2005; "Mermaids and Other Marvels of the Sea," Wicked Alice, Fall 2005; "In My Secret Life I'm a Porn Star," Wicked Alice, Fall 2005; ""For Survival," Wicked Alice, Fall 2005; "Beatification," America, September 12, 2005; "Skin," The Powhatan Review, Winter 2001; "Slasher Film," The New Journal, Summer 2001

Book reviews:: "The Body Artist," Portfolio Weekly (2001 Summer Reading Issue); "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," Portfolio Weekly (2001 Summer Reading Issue); "An Unsustainable Journey," Portfolio Weekly (August 8, 2000)

Feature articles:: "The Truth About Moms," Portfolio Weekly (May 8, 2001); "Sweating to the Oldies," (March 13, 2001); "Telling the True War Story," Portfolio Weekly (September 26, 2000); "See John Run With It," Portfolio Weekly (December 5, 2000); "The Fight for Survival is the Fight," Portfolio Weekly (June 6, 2000)

"The Confessional Form in Popular Culture": ACES series, Buena Vista University, January 2006
Guest Speaker for Sylvia: First Look Film Forum, Naro Expanded Cinema, October 2003
"Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged: The Art of Compassionate Grading": TA Workshop Series, Old Dominion University, February 2002
"The Student Conference Survival Kit": TA/New Faculty Summer Workshop, Old Dominion University, August 2001
"Surviving the Student Conference": TA/New Faculty Summer Workshop, Old Dominion University, August 2000
"Creating a Writers-in-Community Program: How & Why": Associated Writing Programs Conference, Kansas City, MO, March 2000
"Creative Writing in the Composition Classroom": English Graduate Student Conference, Old Dominion University, February 2000
"And This Is How You Live: The Use of Second-Person Point of View in Diving into the Wreck": English Graduate Student Conference, Old Dominion University, February 1998