EDUCATION   

M.S. Reading Specialist                    University of Wisconsin

B.S. French and English Education   University of Wisconsin            

WORK EXPERIENCE

Adjunct lecturer

    Bodin videregående skole, Bodø, Norway

Lecturer

    University of Hawaii Center West Hawaii, Kealakakua HI

Creative Writing instructor

    Holulaloa Art Foundation, Holulaloa HI

    Society for Kona’s Education and Art, Honaunau HI

    Poet-in-the-Schools, Konawaena Schools, Captain Cook HI

    Hawaii County Park Department, Kailua-Kona HI  

POSTS

       Member, Writer’s Union:  Nordnorsk Forfatterlag

        Board, Hawaii Island Writers Association, Hilo HI

        Director, Writers Off the Page Reading Series, Kealakekua HI

        Poetry Editor, Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal

        Program Host, Radio Literature, WORT Radio, Madison WI

        Workshop Leader, Writing Festival, University of Wisconsin

        Board, The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy         

AWARDS

    Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction Yalobusha Review

        Finalist

    Southern Women Writers Association

        Emerging Writer Award in Creative Non-fiction

    Mindfire Renewed

        Mandy Poetry Prize

    Lotus Bloom

        Poetry Prize

    Northern Michigan University

        Elinor Benedict Prize in Poetry, honourable mention

    Western Michigan University

        Writing Conference Fiction Award

    New Light Studios, Beloit WI

        Artist residency

    Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters & Sciences

        125th Annual Conference, Poetry Award

PUBLIC READINGS                              

En Kopp, Bodø

Island Books, Kealakekua HI

A Room of One’s Own Booksellers, Madison WI

The Writer’s Place, Madison WI

WHA Wisconsin Public Radio, Madison WI

Dane County Festival of Poets, Madison WI

Madison Festival of the Lakes, Madison WI

The Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison WI

Olbrich Gardens, Madison WI

The Dekalb Women’s Center, Dekalb IL

Border’s Books, Madison WI, Hilo HI, Kona HI

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Madison WI

William Caxton Ltd., Sturgeon Bay WI

Northern Lights Books, Dekalb IL

Canterbury Booksellers, Madison WI