Education:
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mi, Bachelor of
Arts in English: Journalism, Date of Conferral: April 5, 1992.
National
University, San Diego, CA, Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing,
Date of Conferral: April 19, 2009
National University, San
Diego, Ca, Masters of Arts in English, Date of Conferral: Jan 15, 2012
Published Translations:
Pirene's Fountain--Three Winter Wrens and the Ume Tree--original work translated into Romanji.
Published
Poetry:
The GNU Journal--South African Sestina,
February 22nd, Sunday at 29, Essay on Grace--Fall/Winter, 2008
Word
Catalyst Magazine--Reaped Field, Thoughts that Cross my Mind Opening
Night, Still Born--Sept, 2008
Della
Donna Webzine--Joyeaux Noel, December, 2008
The Shine
Journal--Upon Seeing an Old Beau, Nuns, The Sculptor, Joyeaux Noel--
October, 2008 and January 2009
Birdseye
ReView--Manifesto, Thanksgiving Eve, Aunt Judy, Thanksgiving
2006--Winter 2009
Orange Room
Review--Ringing, Flower Girl, Antithesis, Watches--2008-2009
Pirene's
Fountain--A Visit With Wallace Stevens, Ghazal of the Night--Oct, 2008
Toronto
Quarterly--Miner's,
Cepheid Variable--December, 2008
Book of Words--Sept, 2009
Lit
Up Magazine--Upon Witnessing Love--December, 2008
Pirene's
Fountain--Ganymede, Elegy Wrapped in an Etude--May 2009
Opium Poetry 2.0--Birthday
Girl, French Quarter Tryst--March, 2009
The Free Poet-- Diwali
Luciole
Press--Diwali, Aria for a Formal Living Room, Crocuses for James--Fall
2009
The American Mythville Literary Review Vol 2-- House
Plans, The Red Kerchief: A Portrait of Mrs. Monet, Bareback, Paint by
Numbers--May 2009
Speakeasy--Blood & Diamonds, Summer With
Mary--2009
Mad
Swirl--Crying Out to Walt Whitman in a Suburban Yard, Adagio for a
Would-Be Love, Letter to Phyllis--June, 2009
The
Neglected Ratio--A Poem After Li Po, Afterbirth, Summoning Leaves of
Grass--July, 2009
Hanging
Moss Journal--Haiku, Is the Wind a Tiger in the Trees?--April 2010
Ambassador
Poetry--Upon Observing Virgin and Child on the Crescent Moon (c. 1480)
at the DIA, Cranbrook, A Light on Seven Mile--Sept. 2009
Troubadour
21-Winter Constellations, Russian Tearoom--August 2009
*Mnemosyne*--Backyard
Kingdoms, Chasing Lou Hoover, Bat's Love Song to the Moon, il piu nell'
uno, Paper Dragons--Sept. 2009
The Smoking Poet--The
Bamboo Flowers--Sept, 2009
Four Branches Press--Three
Crows in Snow--Spring 2010
Stirring--Mermaids in a Band Aid
Box--Sept, 2009
Leaf
Garden--Song for the Patient in the Next Bed--Nov. 2009
Tonapah
Review--Letter, Recalling Life Through the Eye of the Needle--Jan, 2010
Deep Cleveland
Junk Mail Oracle--Revelation After Stopping the Car for
Partridges--October 26, 2009
Moonset--Yoshitoshi's Spirit of
the Komachi Cherry Tree--Spring, 2010
Victorian
Violet Press--Matryoshka and The Starling--July 2010
Flutter Poetry
Journal-- Crowns of Forsythia-- May 2010
Crisis
Chronicles Online Library--Ode to Bats, An Ode to High Fidelity as I
Look Back on my Life During an April Rainstorm, Elegy For a Lost
Notebook--May, 2010
Pirene's Fountain--Under the Acacia
Tree--October, 2010.
Up the
Staircase--In Akhmatova's Shadow, Quasida for Hibiscus, Against the
Midnight, Ode to a Pablo Neruda Nude--Featured Writer--Summer 2010
Ink, Sweat & Tears--two haiku
The Orange Room Review--Sewing Lessons--December, 2010
Published Journalism:
WORDsd-
article/interview with Frank Montesonti--Sept 22,2008
Article
for the Oakland Press--July 5, 2009
Article for the Oakland
Press--July 26, 2009
Feature for the Oakland Press--Aug., 2, 2009
Feature
for the Oakland Press--Sept. 20, 2009
Feature for the Oakland
Press--October 7, 2009
Feature for the Marquee--October 23, 2009
Published
Fiction:
Blazed--The GNU Journal Spring/Summer, 2009
Issa's
Spider--The Smoking Poet--Winter, 2010
The
Birthplace of Stars--Troubadour 21--December, 2009
Red and Gold
Sparks--The Medulla Review--Spring, 2010
Ten Winter Wrens
and the Ume Tree--Pirene's Fountain--Spring, 2011
The Five
Bats--Shine Journal--July, 2010
Published
Creative Non Fiction:
Essay on Grace--The GNU Journal,
Fall/Winter 2008
Poems published in anthologies:
The
World According to Goldfish--Sight Vol 2-( Anthology) -Pink in
Croatian--Gold Fish Press, 2009
lilith.(Anthology)--Song
for Lilith, Ode to a Pablo Neruda Nude, The Center of Earth Under Apple
Trees, An Experiment with Forbidden Love as Locusts--Fortunate Childe
Publications, 2009
Postcards from Eve
(Anthology)--Neorealism on the Streets of Birmingham, Moving Pictures,
Desir, Under the Acacia Tree, Wild Horses, Ten Thousand
Hollows--Fortunate Childe Publications, 2010
From the Porch
Swing (Anthology)--Quilts, Lodgia--Silver Boomer Books, 2010
Published
Books:
Njaa,
Recycled Karma Press, 2009
Channeling
Isadora Duncan, Gold Wake Press, 2009
The
Bat's Love Song: American Haiku, Crisis Chronicles Press, 2009
The Owl &
the Muse: Collected Tanka, Recycled Karma Press, 2009
Transient
Angels, Crisis Chronicles Press, 2011
On Recalling
Life Through the Eye of the Needle, Village Green Books, 2011
Matryoshkas,
Victorian Violet Press, 2010
Issa's Spider,
Victorian Violet Press, 2010
Red Hibiscus, Crisis Chronicles Press, 2013
Field Notes, Crisis Chronicles Press, 2013
Batik, NightBallet Press, Jan 26, 2012
Published Reviews:
Pirene's Fountain--October, 2010--Footprints in the Bajra by Nabina Das
Teaching/Writing
Experience:
Poetry Editor for the GNU Journal, 2008-2009
Volunteer
Writing Instuctor, Grace Centers of Hope, 35 E. Huron, Pontiac, Mi
48342, (248) 334-2187 February 2008- Present
Editor-in -Chief of
tinfoildresses poetry journal
Oakland Community
College--Writing Tutor for ESL/ASC students at the Auburn Hills Campus,
designed and run the Writing Center for the Auburn Hills campus.,
October 2008- present
Oakland Community College--Adjunct
Professor--English 1060--Academic Literacy II--Fall, 2009/Winter, 2010,
Fall, 2010/Winter 2011
Creative Writing Instructor--Pontiac
Creative Arts Center, Fall 2009
ITT Technical Institute--English
Faculty--Composition I and 2, Written Analysis--Summer, 2010--present
Mentor for Creative Writing MFA thesis--National University
student--Spring 2010
Mott Community College--English Faculty--Composition 1 and 2--Fall 2010-present.
Southern New Hampshire University--Online English Faculty--Poetry Workshop, World Lit, Composition 1 and 2--June, 2011-present.
Presentations:
2010 Michigan Tutorial Association Conference--"Using the Open Writing Lab to Connect Professors and Academic Support Centers in the Community College"--headed up panel discussion.
Appearances:
Poetic
Travelers, May 15, 2009 at Lawrence Street Gallery in Ferndale,
Mi--featured poet
Mint Jam '09 Benefit Concert for Crosby Mint
Farn, St Johns, Mi--August 15th, 2009
Gateway Gallery, Oak Park,
Mi --Sept.12, 2009
Premier Issue Kickoff Party for The Ambassador
Poetry Project, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, Mi --Sept,
25th, 2009
Mid Autumn Moon Festival--featured poet--Gold Fish
Tea, Royal Oak, Mi--Oct 3, 2009.
AJ's Cafe, Ferndale,
Mi--Featured poet--December 13,2009
Lix and Kix--featured
poet--Lakewood, Ohio--December 15th, 2009.
Lix and Kix--featured poet--Lakewood, Ohio--March 16, 2011
Avon Public
Library--feature poet--Avon, Ohio--March 17, 2010