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Education
MFA, Warren Wilson Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College, Swananoa, NC. BA, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Publications
Books (author)
- The House on Eccles Road (novel), Graywolf Press, 2002, paperback from Viking-Penguin, 2003, TownHouse Publishing (UK), 2004.
- Distance and Direction (essays), Coffee House Press, 2001.
- Only the Dance: Essays on Time and Memory, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 1994.
- Understanding William Stafford, University of South Carolina Press, 1989, expanded as Writing the World, Oregon State University Press, 1999.
- Perennials (poems), selected by Hayden Carruth, Anhinga Press, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1986.
Books (editor)
- The Poets Guide to the Birds, ed. with Ted Kooser, Anhinga, 2009.
- Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, W. W. Norton in 2005.
- In Short, A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction, ed. with Mary Paumier Jones, W. W. Norton, 1996.
- In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal, ed. with Mary Paumier Jones, Norton, 1999.
Other Publications
- The Georgia Review
- Prairie Schooner
- The Gettysburg Review
- Great River Review
- Water-Stone
- River Teeth
- Fourth Genre
- River City
- The Seneca Review
- The Wallace Stevens Journal
- Creative Nonfiction
- Brevity
- Colorado Review
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- Organica
- Green Mountains Review
- The Ohio Review
- Poetry Northwest
- Southern Poetry Review
- Mid-American Review
- Black American Literature Forum
- Tar River Poetry
- Ontario Review
- Indiana Review
- The Literary Review
- Webster Review
- The Atlanta Review
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Anthologies
Poems or essays anthologized in a number of books, collections and textbooks:
- What have you lost?, ed. Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow Books
- On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things, ed. Tom Andrews, University of Michigan Press
- Where We Stand: Women Poets on Tradition, ed. Sharon Bryan, W. W. Norton & Co.
- An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris, ed. Eugene England and Peter Makuck, Camden House.
Teaching
- Rainier Writing Workshop, Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA (Co-director, faculty member)
- SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY (Lecturer, 1983-1997, Writer-in-residence, 1998-2003).
Awards & Honors
- S. Mariella Gable Award for the Novel, Graywolf Press
- Lillian Fairchild Award from the University of Rochester
- Artists Advisory Board for the New York Foundation for the Arts
- Advisory and Contributing Editor, The Georgia Review
- NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Individual Artist's Fellowship
- The Pushcart Prize
- Individual Artist's Award, The New York Foundation for the Arts.
Reviewer
- For over twenty years, regular poetry reviewer (twice yearly essay reviews) for The Georgia Review
- Nonfiction reviewer for Water~Stone Review.
Residences/Visiting Writer (selected)
- Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, Bemidji, MN
- Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, Lincoln, NE
- Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, Homer, AK
- Centrum Writers Conference, Port Townsend, WA
- Split Rock Arts Center, Duluth, MN
- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
- University of Wyoming--Summer workshop
- The Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
- Writers @ Work, Park City, UT
- Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchberg, VA
- Distinguished Visiting Writer in Nonfiction, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
- Oklahoma Arts Institute—Celebration of the Spirit (a workshop with victims of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building), 1995, 1996, 1997
Panels/Presentations (selected)
- AWP Conference (numerous)
- Taylor University
- Flint Hills Literary Festival
- Institute for Arts in Education, SUNY Albany, NY
- The Annenberg Foundation, Washington D.C.
Readings (selected)
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- University of Georgia
- Kansas State University
- Wells College
- Wichita State University
- University of Nebraska
- Oklahoma Arts Institute
- Hobart-William Smith College
- Penn State University at Behrend
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- University of Northern Alabama
- St. Thomas Aquinas College
- University of Idaho
- Ashland University
- Western Washington University
- Peninsula College
- Whitman College
- Elliott Bay Bookstore
- Powell's Book Store
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