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I’m a graduate of the writing program of Columbia University (1987) with an MFA in Creative Writing. I’ve been a member of the faculty at Kutztown University, department of English and Professional Writing since September 1990. Primarily, I teach creative writing on the undergraduate and graduate level. My specialty courses are Exploring Forms, Creative Writing; Drama, Poetry and Fiction and Advanced Creative Writing. In addition, I teach Composition, Short Story, and The Literature of Peace.
My publication includes two chapbooks of poetry and two full-length collections, numerous stories and essays published in periodicals and anthologies and one published novel, A Trick of Light. A second novel will be ready for publication within the next six months. Further, I’ve edited an anthology of poetry and co-translated a number of poems. My work has been broadcast on National Public Radio. Barwood Films purchased the screen rights to my novel. I have stories in a new anthology of fiction, Sudden Stories, and a number of poems will be published this spring in an anthology.
Over the past ten years, I have given more than a hundred readings, workshops and speeches in academic and community venues around the country and in France, Austria and Russia. Since November, I gave a keynote at a writers conference at Kings College, served as visiting professor at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow, Russia, read from my work at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Florida, conducted a workshop and panel at Palm Beach Community College, and spoke as part of a literary arts festival to celebrate the opening of a new library in Moravia, New York. Recently, my novel was selected for Chapters, a citywide book club sponsored by the Press and Sun Bulletin, Binghamton NY. Further, I am a consultant to the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Project.
Photo by Michael Downend
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