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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
  • 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
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
  • 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