curriculum vitae
curriculum vitae
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
Mandy Poetry Prize
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
