Curriculum Vitae
Ann M. Bogle
AMBogle@aol.com
Degrees
M.F.A. University of Houston, fiction,
1994.
M.A. Binghamton
University, English and fiction, 1988.
B.A. University
of Wisconsin-Madison, English, 1984.
Fellowships, Awards, Honors, Recognitions
Wigleaf Top 50 2013; Summer Literary Seminars contest in poetry judged by
Ann Lauterbach, finalist, 2009; Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, creative
nonfiction, 1998; Loft Mentor Series, finalist, 1997; Tuition fellowship for
women graduate students in Texas, 1992–93; Inprint, Inc. Fellowship, UH, 1990;
Stella Ehrhardt Fellowship, UH, 1990; Newhouse Writing Fellowship, SUNY, 1986;
Mary Brabyn Wackman Scholarship in English, UW, 1982 and 1984, Honors Program
UW.
Publications
Books and Chapbooks
Country Without a Name, 24 stories, with
illustrations by Daniel Harris, forthcoming from Veery Imprints.
Country Without a Name, 24 memfics and prose poems,
art by Daniel Harris, design by Marc Vincenz, edited by Bill Yarrow, published
by Jeffrey Side, Argotist eBooks, July 2011, 44 pages.
Solzhenitsyn Jukebox, five stories, with cover
art by Rachel Lisi, published by Jeffrey Side, Argotist eBooks, 2010, 33 pages. Animated
eBook trailer by Meg Pokrass with dialogue based on a review by James Robison, YouTube, November 4, 2010.
Ana Verse, 300 entries from the weblog
(2006–2009), Blurb, color, hard cover (three copies) and soft cover (four
copies), May 24, 2009, 362 pages. Contact author.
Publications (continued)
Books and Chapbooks (continued)
Ana Verse, Volume 2, 94 entries from
the weblog (2009-2011), Blurb, color, hard cover (desk copy) and soft cover
(desk copy), February 5, 2011, 146 pages. Contact author.
Dog barks up a tree at the apple left in
it under a deerslim moon, 18 poems (1983–2007),
designed by Kai Fierle Hedrick for Orium Press of the Dusie Kollektiv, 2008-2009.
XAM: Paragraph Series, fourteen prose poems (1998) with lithokons by
mIEKAL aND, Xexoxial Editions, November 18, 2005.
Anthologies
“I Am Vertical,” Like a Fat,
Gold Watch—A Sylvia Plath Anthology, Christine Hamm, Ed., 2018.
“Letter to John Berryman,” The Right Way to Be Crippled and
Naked, Michael Northen and Sheila Black, Eds., Cinco Puntos Press (El Paso:
Texas), 2017.
“Credo,” “Lake Onegin,” and “The Writer to Her Lawyer in Siberia,”
OtherStream anthology, Marc Vincenz, Ed., accepted.
“This Was Called War At One Time,” four excerpts from Work on
What Has Been Spoiled: “Typing Practice,” “Bastille Day,” “Theft,” and
“Scream,” included in Neuromantic Fiction, an anthology of 25 Black
Ice writers, Mark Amerika, Matt Samet, and Clint Ruhlman, Eds., released in
July 2001 as an eBook and in paper in Fall 2001.
Ana Verse (date range: January 16, 2006 to present): http://annbogle.blogspot.com. Index at Ana Verse: http://annbogle.blogspot.com/p/index-october-2-2012.html.
Journals
“Boring Boy,” “Pretty
Face,” “Necessary Heat,” “Keep the Peace,” “Perfect Lady,” “My
Notes on ‘Quittin' Ain't Easy’,” “The Keratin Experience,” “Uterus,”
and “Hardware Store Tour,” Connotation
Press, Robert Clark Young, Ed., Issue II, Volume
VII: November 2015.
Publications (continued)
Journals (continued)
“A Figure Left the Building,” “Monday Lunch,” “Clockwhipped,” and
“Action she feels as folly, I respond,” Truck, Miekal And, Ed., Feburary 1, 2015.
“1918, 1944, 1991, and now” and “Letter to John Berryman,” Reading Loop, Wordgathering,
Mike Northen, Ed., September 12, 2014.
“Next Time, Academics” and “Sandyfall,” MadHathttp://madhattersreview.com/issue15/fiction_bogle.shtml 15, Marc Vincenz, Ed., January
2014.
“The Keratin Experience,” Altered Scale Blog, Jeff Hansen,
Ed., accepted for September 2013.
“Dreams from the Station,” Gargoyle, 60, includes “Dream
about Leo,” “Dream about the W.A.S.P.s,” “Dream in Snow Circle,”
“Dreams-in-progress,” and “Kin of His,” Richard Peabody, Ed., June 2013.
“Neat,” Blue Fifth Review: Blue Five Notebook Series, The Blue Collection 3:
Collaboration, ekphrastic story based on Dorothee Lang’s “Berlin Past and
Present” and comment, December 26, 2012.
“Animals in Reverse,” “Curfew,” “Rock Band Days,” “The Code is on
the Street,” and “Meryl Streep Laughed at That,” Altered Scale, Jefferson Hansen, Ed.,
March 2012.
“Meryl Streep Laughed at That” with my photo “Lake Harriet” and
“The Code is on the Street” with my photo “Grey Nuns,” printed as broadsides
by Altered Scale, Jefferson Hansen, Ed., March 2012. Wigleaf Top
50 in 2013, “Meryl Streep Laughed at That”.
Publications (continued)
Journals (continued)
“Letters, notes,
conversations, partings,” THIS Literary Magazine, Joani Reese and Bill
Yarrow, Eds., January/February 2012.
“Free Country,” “She lets her intentions guide her,” “Hooker,” and
“Two Hundred Fifty,” Thrice Fiction, No. 2: Perfect! issue, R.W.
Spryszak, Ed., July 2011.
“Members of the Story,” Blip magazine, now called New World Writing, Gary Percesepe and Sarah
Lippmann, Eds., Fall Issue, October 1, 2010.
“She lets her intentions guide her” at 52/250 A Year of Flash,
Michelle Elvy, Ed., June 7, 2010.
“Tinges of Envy or How You Learn” with Metaview no. 1, Metazen, Frank
Hinton and Julie Innis, Eds., May 25, 2010.
“Fiancée,” Istanbul Literary Review, Susan Tepper, Ed., May 2010
Edition. No longer archived.
“The Housecoat” (1987) and “Mugabe Western" (1985), Big Bridge,
14, Michael Rothenberg and Vernon Frazer, Eds., 2009.
Publications (continued)
Journals
(continued)
Excerpts from Work on What Has Been Spoiled (1988–1993),
Big Bridge, 14, Michael Rothenberg and
Vernon Frazer, Eds., 2009.
“Tighten, Tighten, Tighten,” “How It Makes Sense,” “A Note on
Modernism,” “Go Home,” and “Cut It Up,” columns at Mike’s Writing Workshop and Newsletter, Mike Geffner, Ed., 2009.
“The Gift” (1991), “Cigs,” (1991), and “Rule Out Euthymia” (1995),
Mad Hatters’ Review, Carol Novack, Ed., issue
10, music by Brutus Filius Ioannis, Novo Iorco, Fall 2008.
Three short fictions: “Red Squirrel,” “Jungle,” and “Trent
Kesey,” Minnetonka Review, issue 2, Troy Ehlers, Ed.,
March 2008.
“Dreams-in-progress,” “Dream in Snow Circle,” and “Dream about the
W.A.S.P.s,” Annandale Dream Gazette, Lynn Behrendt, Ed.,
2007-2008.
“Conditions of a Narrator,” foreword to Work on What Has Been
Spoiled, Birthdays of Poets, Andrew Christ, Ed.,
December 30, 2008.
“Primary Creative: ‘Cyril in Texas,’ ‘Blind Date,’ and ‘Rut’,” Big Bridge 11, Vernon Frazer and
Michael Rothenberg, Eds., 2006.
“Almanac” (1986) and “Hogging the Lady” (1999), Poetic
Inhalation, Vernon Frazer, Ed., February 2005.
“Cousin” (1991), Submodern
Fiction, Mark Wallace, Ed. (Washington, DC) issue 1, 2003.
“Texas Was Better” (1990), Submodern Fiction, Mark Wallace,
Ed., (Washington, DC) issue 1, 2003.
“This Was Called War At One Time,” four excerpts from Work
on What Has Been Spoiled: “Typing Practice,” “Bastille Day,” “Theft,” and
“Scream,” Black Ice, Ronald Sukenick, Ed., 1999.
“Influence,” Cool Hearts, with interview, Jason Sanford, Ed.
(Minneapolis, MN: The Cool Hearts Collective) Issue 1, Winter 1999.
“My Crush on Daniel Ortega” (1990), Washington Review,
Heather Fuller, Ed. (Washington, DC: Friends of the Washington Review of the
Arts) vol. xxiii, no. 5, February/March, 1998.
Publications (continued)
Journals (continued)
“Living Colors,” under pen name Stephen Green, Houston Life,
Maria Moss, Ed. (Houston, TX) March–April, 1995.
“What Kiss,” Gulf Coast (Houston: University of
Houston) Vol. VI., i., 1993.
“Hors-d’oeuvre,” The Quarterly, Gordon Lish, Ed. (New York:
Vintage) No. 10, 1989.
“Tinges of Envy or How You Learn,” Fiction International,
Harold Jaffe, Ed. (San Diego: San Diego State University Press) Issue 18:1,
1988.
“Fairness,” The Quarterly, Gordon Lish, Ed. (New York:
Vintage) No. 8, 1988.
“Chinese,” The Quarterly, Gordon Lish, Ed. (New York:
Vintage) No. 6, 1988.
Poetry
“Strobe
Genre, Utah!” and “On the truth,” Blue
Fifth Review: Blue Five Notebook Series, Michelle Elvy, Ed., June 30, 2015.
Four poems, The Poetry Storehouse with audio recordings by Nic
Sebastian, Karsten Piper, Ann Bogle, and audio remix by Bruce Johnson, March
15, 2015.
XAM: Paragraph Series, Xexoxial Editions, 2005,
featured at The Cartier Street Review, Bernard Alain, Ed., March
2009.
“Another girl to figure out,” “Catnip,” “Haiku Romance,” “Head,”
“Key of James,” “Many how are seid,” and “This is Why I Loved You,” The Argotist Online, Jeffrey Side, Ed., 2009.
Publications (continued)
Poetry (continued)
“Frontiers Yugoslavia Thirty Notwithstanding,” “Get Me to the
Church on Time,” and “Graffiti non gratis,” onedit, 12, Tim Atkins, Ed., 2009.
“One Vowel Trafficking,” “Evening
at Christa Forster’s with Tim Liu, Dave, Eddie Selden, and Chuck Scott,” and
“The Question Was What You,” The Mad Hatter’s Review, Mad Hatters’ Revue (New
York, NY), May 4, 2008.
“Dime,” The Facebook Review, 2.2, Jacob McArthur Mooney,
Ed., Nov. 27, 2007.
“Basal Distance,” MiPOradio, The Countdown 20 featuring
Arlene Ang, Bob Marcacci, Ed., Feb. 27, 2007 and audio recording at Ana
Verse.
“Borgo Was 29 on His Birthday” (2001), ~*~ W_O_M_B ~*~ ,
Michelle Detorie, Ed., issue one, January 15, 2007.
“It’s the end of a cycle,” selected for inclusion in The Best
Poems and Poets of 2005 (Owen Mills, MD: The International Library of
Poetry), 2006.
“Florence’s Weekend,” Touch of Tomorrow, Howard Ely, Ed. (Owen
Mills, MD: The International Library of Poetry) hardcover, 2004.
Essays, Letters, and Writing on Literature
Ongoing correspondence and work in belles lettres,
including writerly essays on H.D., Pound, Hawthorne, Melville, Milton, Freud,
Stein, Cather, Cixous, Woolf, Plath, and others.
Reviews
Jeffrey Side and Jake Berry, Outside Voices: an email
correspondence (Otoliths, 2010), review, originally planned for Big
Bridge.
Amy King’s I Want to Make You Safe, review, TBD, 2012.
Editor's Eye, the Blog of the
Fictionaut, Michelle Elvy, Series Editor, August 30, 2013.
Publications (continued)
Reviews (continued)
Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon, review, Rain Taxi, Eric
Lorberer, Ed., Spring 2012, page 8, and in its original form at Books at Fictionaut, May 30, 2013.
“With a sense of disclosure: Molly Gaudry’s We Take Me Apart,” American Book Review, David C. Felts, Ed., November/December 2011, page 27.
Prakash Kona’s Nunc Stans and Bobbi Lurie’s Grief Suite,
reviews, Mad Hatters’ Review, issue 12, Carol Novack,
Ed., 2011.
“at ‘night’ any night is can’t”: review of Leslie Scalapino’s Autobiography, Chant de la Sirene, Laura Hinton, Ed., June 2,
2010.
“On Free Verse: The Collaborative Artists’
Book,” a report from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Chant
de la Sirene, Laura Hinton, Ed., April 20, 2009.
“The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde” by Thomas Kilroy at Guthrie
Theater, review, The O Scholars 45, July/August 2008.
“Steady Keel: A Perennial Review of Leo Kottke’s Thanksgiving
Concert at the Ordway Music Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota” (1999–2001), The
Lyre, Arthur Bernstein, Ed. (Viroqua, WI) issue 1, January 2007.
Interviews
Monday Chat at Fictionaut with Bill
Yarrow about my poem, “Letters, notes, conversations, partings,” March 26,
2012.
Audio interview with Jeff Davis on WordPlay at Asheville FM on writing and life,
concludes with “Sound Experiment” that features the music of Leo Kottke,
January 1, 2012. To be archived at Natures, forthcoming.
Audio interview with Jefferson Hansen at Experimental
Fiction/Poetry on fiction at Big Bridge, September 2009,
featured at kaffe in katmandu, Marcus Speh, Ed., December
20, 2011.
Email-exchange interview with Russell Bittner at Poet’s Corner, Long Story Short, on
my poetry and short story, “Po-cash,” November 2009, published November 2010.
Performances
“Story for Ned’s Edit” and “Free Country,” MadHat reading at
Revival, New York, August 5, 2013.
“Shoe Lace,” MadHat reading at Launch Pad, Brooklyn, New York,
July 31, 2013.
Wigleaf Top 50 2013 featured reading, Altered Scale, SubText: a
Book Store, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 29, 2013. Video and audio recordings
available at Ana Verse.
“Dreams from the Station,” story sequence, Common Good Books, St.
Paul, Minnesota, July 22, 2012.
Stories from Country Without a Name, Munkabeans
Coffee, Hopkins, Minnesota, March 30, 2012.
Stories, memfics, prose poems, French Broad Institute, Marshall,
North Carolina, October 6, 2010.
“She lets her intentions guide her,” “Head,” “This is Why I Loved
You,” and “Dreams-in-progress,” SLS Montréal, Quebec, Irish Embassy, June 20
and 27, 2010.
Three poems, Pussipo, Associated Writing Programs, off-site event,
Denver, Colorado, April 7, 2010.
“Frontiers Yugoslavia Thirty Notwithstanding” and “Letters, notes,
conversations, partings,” poems, with Peter Knoll, guitar, Mad Hatters’ Revue
at Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx, New York, July 11, 2008.
“Catnip,” “The Question Was What You,” and “Head,” poems, National
Poetry Foundation, Poetry of the 1970s Conference, University of Maine, Orono,
June 11–15, 2008.
“XAM: Paragraph Series,” excerpts, prose poem chapbook, Sunday
Salon Series, Stain Bar, Brooklyn, New York, Jan. 20, 2008.
Poems, Prism Reading Series, Café at Open Book, Minneapolis, 2007.
“The Gift,” “Cigs,” and “My Crush on Daniel Ortega,” benefits for
SASE: The Write Place, Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1998.
“Initial Signs of Mercy,” (“The Sitzer”) story, featured guest
reader, Ruthless Grip Art Project Poetry Series, Washington, DC, April 1998.
Performances (continued)
“Hymen,” story, featured reader, Diverse Works Reading Series,
Houston, March 1994.
“In A Basket,” novella, Inklings Bookstore, Houston, December
1993.
“The Housecoat,” “The Hostage,” and “Hors-d’oeuvre,” stories,
University of Houston, April 1993.
Work on What Has Been Spoiled, excerpts, Crowbar, Houston,
November 1992.
“Texas Was Better,” story, Phone Works of Diverse Works, Houston,
Spring 1991.
“My Crush on Daniel Ortega,” story, Blaffer Gallery, University of
Houston, February 1991.
“The Hostage,” “Hors-d’oeuvre,” and “Almanac,” stories, Binghamton
University, April 1988.
“Mugabe Western,” story, Binghamton University, May 1987.
“The Housecoat” and “Tinges of Envy or How You Learn,”
stories, State University of New York Writers Festival, April 1987.
Group performance, A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, Madison,
Wisconsin, May 1984.
Work Experience
In Editing
Editor’s Eye, the Blog of the
Fictionaut, Michelle Elvy, Series Editor, August 2013.
Fiction Reader, Drunken Boat, Deborah Poe and Sybil
Baker, fiction editors, Ravi Shankar, publisher, 2010–2013.
Creative Nonfiction and Book Reviews Editor, Mad Hatters’ Review, Carol Novack, publisher,
2008–2011, Marc Vincenz, publisher, 2011–2012; co-editor in poetry, 2011.
Editor, prose poetry and flash fiction, Listenlight, Jesse
Crockett, publisher, 2012.
Guest Fiction Editor, 21 Stars Review and anthology,
Chris Wells, publisher, 2008.
Freelance Writer and Editor: Novels, short stories, master’s
theses, 1994 to present; edited and rewrote book-length account of the
restoration of a ranch in West Texas, J. B. Poindexter, Houston, Summer 1994; proof-read
scholarly journals and monographs, Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY,
Work Experience (continued)
In Editing (continued)
Fall 1989; edited and rewrote finance proposals for new hospital
and health authority accounts, Smith Barney, Harris Upham and Co., Inc., New
York, July–October, 1987.
Wire Editor: Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, NY,
September 1988–July 1990. Promoted from copy editor December 1989 and from
newsroom clerk January 1989. Selected state, national, and international news
stories; laid out A-section and other pages and special sections; graphics;
supervised copy editors.
Assistant Editor, MSS., literary magazine, Binghamton, NY,
Spring and Fall 1987. Screened fiction and poetry submissions; automated
subscription list; edited proofs; correspondence; circulation; accounts
receivable.
In Business
Word-processing Secretary: Olsten Staffing and other agencies.
Legal, financial, corporate, manufacturing, and government settings. Houston
and New York. Summer and interim employment, 1987 to 1994.
Office Manager: Petinary, veterinary clinic, Madison, WI. Accounts
receivable, scheduling, training, wrote manual, May 1984 to August 1986.
In Teaching
CREATIVE WRITING: SASE: The Write Place (Portage for Youth program
for at-risk Hmong girls ages 9–14; Stimpson Housing Authority program for
working mothers and their daughters; Patrick Henry High School art/writing
project and Saturday class), 1998–99; Chaska Valley Writing Conference for
Gifted and Talented High School Writers, guest writer, 1999 and 2003; The Loft,
“Experimental Writing,” 1998; Writers in the Schools, Village School Middle
School, poetry and prose, three or four sections per semester, writer-in-residence,
Spring 1993 and 1993–94; Introductory Creative Writing, Binghamton University,
poetry and fiction, Spring 1988.
LITERATURE: The Short Story, Sophomore Literature, University of
Houston, ten sections, Spring 1992; 1992–93; 1993–94; American Literature
Before the Civil War, Houston Community College, Summer 1995; The Continental
Short Story, Sophomore Literature and Composition, Binghamton University, two
sections, Fall 1986.
COMPOSITION/RHETORIC: English 1302, Houston Community College,
Summer 1995; Spring 1996; English 1304, University of Houston, four sections,
Spring and Fall 1991. Freshman Composition: English 1301, Houston Community
College, Spring 1996; English 1303, University of Houston, Fall 1990. Business
English: Houston Community College, Summer 1995. Developmental English: Houston
Community College, Fall 1991.
Work Experience (continued)
TUTORING: Memoir, 2012; Gifted and Talented, 2012; WyzAnt, 2012;
America Online, Academic Assistance Center, College Area, English and writing,
1997–98; Minnesota Literacy Council, Adult Basic Education, Adult Options,
Hopkins, MN, preparation for GED and ESL, 1997–98; Computer Lab, Houston
Community College, Spring and Summer 1992.
WRITING COACHING: with three writers, 1999–2001 and 2012.
EXAMINER: Scored standardized essay exams, Grades 3–11, Data
Recognition Corporation, Minnetonka, MN, Summer 1996.
In Academia
Assistant Secretary, German Department, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, bilingual typing of correspondence, administrative assistance,
Summer 1982.
Library Clerk, Mathematics Library, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, maintained hold shelf, shelved books, assisted patrons,
Summer 1982.
Research Assistant, Institute for Research on Poverty, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.
Other Experience
Summer Literary Seminars, finalist in poetry judged by Ann
Lauterbach in 2009, fiction workshop with Padgett Powell, Montréal, Quebec,
Canada, June 2010.
Panelist, “Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetics of Disability,”
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Denver, 2010.
Poetry of the 1970s, conference, National Poetry Foundation,
Orono, ME, June 2008.
Weeks by Hannah Weiner, transcribed first edition, 1990, for
second edition, Xexoxial Editions, 2008.
Attended 100 poetry readings as resident, New York, NY, 2008.
Judge in prose, Minnesota State Arts Board, grant competition,
2007.
Four Bolt Main’s sound recording studio, Criminal Records,
Houston, TX, 1994–96. Assisted in opening business, listened to recording
sessions and rehearsals, and studied sample law.
Urban Theater, Houston, TX, 1992–1994, closely followed production
and performances of King Lear, MacBeth, Waiting for Godot, Joseph K.,
and other plays, offered critical response and support to director and cast as
needed.
Education
Binghamton Community Poets, affiliated fiction writer, 1987–1990.
Core group of men performance and street poets and musicians, who also
sponsored pub readings by Robert Creeley, Ed Sanders, Jerome Rothenberg, Martin
Bidney, and others.
M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing, Fiction, University of
Houston, 1990–94. Coursework reflects three years’ study toward the Ph.D. with
a generalist emphasis and creative dissertation. M.F.A. program ranked second
nationally by U.S. News and World Report in 1996. Study in fiction and
non-fiction with Rosellen Brown and James Robison.
M.A. in English and Creative Writing, Fiction, State University of
New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University), 1986–88. Study in fiction and
creative writing pedagogy with Gayle Whittier, short fiction and the novel with
Larry Woiwode, and poetry with Jerome Rothenberg.
B.A. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980–84. Post
baccalaureate study in fiction with Lorrie Moore.
Areas of Special Interest in English
Creative Writing in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction;
Fiction Form; Genre Studies; The Comparative Short Story; Women’s Studies and
Women’s Literature; Modernism; Postmodernism; 20th and 21st
Century American Poetry; 20th and 21st Century Poetry
Movements; History of English and History of Literature in English.
Selected Coursework
SUMMARY: 69 semester hours in literature; 62 semester hours in
writing, including 8 hours in poetry and 43 hours in fiction; 37 semester hours
in German and French.
LITERATURE: M.F.A./Ph.D.: Bibliography, History of Rhetoric,
Milton, Pre-seminar: American Literature after the Civil War, Aspects of Modern
Thought, Critical Cultural Theory, Black Women Writers. M.A.: Introduction to
the English Language, Shakespeare, Swift and His Circle, 20th c. Poetry Movements, Counter-Environmental Novel.
B.A.: Western Culture: Literature and Art, English Literature before 1800,
Chaucer, Shakespeare, English Literature 1660–1745, Theme in 19th c. English
Literature: The American Eve, Course for Majors: H. D. and D. H. Lawrence,
Figures of Contemporary English Literature: Virginia Woolf, Literary Criticism:
Feminism.
WRITING: M.F.A./Ph.D.: Graduate Short Fiction (three semesters
with Rosellen Brown and James Robison), Graduate Poetry Workshop (with Adam
Zagajewski), Personal Essay Workshop (with Rosellen Brown), Fiction Forms
Workshop (with James Robison), Thesis/dissertation (short stories and
mixed-genre work, James Robison, director). M.A.: Graduate Short Fiction (two
semesters with Gayle Whittier and Larry Woiwode), The Novel (with Larry
Woiwode), Master’s Thesis (short stories, Gayle Whittier, director), Teaching
Creative Writing (with Gayle Whittier).
Education (continued)
B.A.: Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Fiction (with John Hurley), Intermediate Fiction Workshop (two semesters, one post baccalaureate at UW with Lorrie Moore), Advanced Poetry Workshop (performance emphasis with Annis Pratt), Graduate Poetry Workshop (post-baccalaureate at U of Minnesota-Duluth with Kate Green), News writing and Reporting.
Selected Coursework (continued)
SELECTED READINGS AND SHORT-TERM RESIDENCIES: M.F.A./Ph.D.: Lydia
Davis, Jamaica Kincaid, Linda Gregg, Amy Hempel. M.A.: Robert Bly, Anne
Waldman, Pierre Joris, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein. B.A.:
Adrienne Rich, Jorge Luis Borges, James Baldwin, Carolyn Forché.
Master of Fine Arts Thesis
Work on What Has Been Spoiled, 1994. Contains an introductory
essay, “Conditions of a Narrator,” five short stories: “Texas Was Better,”
“Hymen,” “My Crush on Daniel Ortega,” “What Kiss,” and “The Gift,” and a
75-page excerpt from a book-length mixed-genre work called “Work on What Has
Been Spoiled.”
Master’s Thesis
Table-Talk, 1988. Short stories: “Mugabe Western,” “Raisins,” “The
Housecoat,” “Chinese,” “Tinges of Envy or How You Learn,” “The Hostage,” “Still
Life in a Bowl,” “Fairness,” “Hors-d’oeuvre,” “Almanac,” and a novella, “In a
Basket.”
Academic Committees
Graduate Student Senator, Binghamton University, 1987–88; Graduate
Liaison to Creative Writing Faculty, Binghamton University, 1987–88.
Computer Experience
Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, Works and Money, Quicken, America
Online (as online teacher), various desktop, multimedia, audio, and
telecommunication products, Blackberry, DOS, Windows, Apple, Macintosh,
specialized Hastech software for newspaper editing, layout, and design, specialized
instructional software in English writing lab.
Affiliations and Organizations
The Academy of American Poets; American Civil Liberties Union;
Associated Writers and Writing Programs (annual attendance at AWP Conference
and Book Fair, 2007–present); Facebook (2007–present); Fictionaut
(2009–present); Icarus Project; Jewish Community Center, Sabes Center (JCC);
Wolfe Park Neighborhood Association Board (Treasurer); League of Women Voters; MadHat; Modern Language Association
(intermittent, 1997–present); The National Arts Club (2008); 92nd Street Y
(2008); Open Book and The Loft (intermittent, 1997–present); SASE: The Write
Place (1997–1999); Twitter, U of Buffalo Poetics Listserv (2001–end 2014);
WOMPO (Women’s Poetry Listserv) (2007–present).
Interests
Improvisational clarinet, literary readings, stage theater and
other performance, nature, travel.
Dossier
Letters of recommendation from Bill Yarrow, Gary Percesepe, Eric
Miles Williamson, Mark Wallace, Dr. Tom Williams, Dr. Maureen E. Mulvihill,
Rosellen Brown, James Robison, Dr. David Mikics, Dr. Cynthia Santos, Larry
Woiwode, Dr. Gayle Whittier, Liz Rosenberg, Lorrie Moore, Dr. Susan Stanford
Friedman, and others, transcripts, copies of publications, and names and
addresses of supervisors are all available upon request.