Hollins College, M.A., Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, and Contemporary Literature (40 hours).

▪Academic Honor: The Andrew James Purdy Prize for Fiction, 1982.

Hollins College, B.A., double major in English and Film with Departmental Honors in English.

▪Academic Honors: Faculty Award for Academic Excellence, Gold Medal, 1980 (first in class); Departmental Honors in English, 1980; The Mary Vincent Long Award for Excellence in English, 1980; The Hollins Fiction Prize, 1980; The Academy of American Poets Prize, 1978 and 1979; The Hollins Filmmaking Award, 1979; Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa.

Last Exposures: a sequence of poems, Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

The Land Between (novel), Baskerville Publishers, 2003.

Poems for the Pardoned (poems), LSU, 2002.

Emerald City Blues (poems), Tryon Publishing Co, 2002.

Texas School Book Depository: prose poems, LSU, 2000.                                          

Negative History (poems), LSU, 1997.

Afterimages (poems), LSU, 1991.

A Blue Moon in Poorwater (novel), Ticknor & Fields, 1988.

     (rpt. University Press of Virginia, 1998)

Learning the Mother Tongue (stories), University of Missouri Press, 1987.

Phenomena (poems), University of Missouri Press, 1983.

1982-the present      Hollins University       Roanoke, VA

Professor of English and Creative Writing

Poetry Editor, The Hollins Critic, 1997-

Director, Graduate Teaching Fellow Program, 2004-2007

Director, Undergraduate Creative Writing Sequence, 2004-5.

Chair, Department of English, 1995-98

▪Current and Recent Courses Taught

Image and Word

Teaching Practicum

Graduate Tutorials in Poetry and Fiction

Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry and Fiction

Advanced Studies in Short Fiction

How Writing is Written

Truth Scribbled in the Margins: Unconventional Writing by Women

Direct Graduate and undergraduate theses in creative writing

1989–1991       Washington and Lee University       Lexington, VA

Visiting Assistant Professor of English 

Spring 1987       Randolph-Macon Woman’s College       Lynchburg, VA

Writer-in-Residence

Spring 1985       University of Virginia       Charlottesville, VA

Visiting Lecturer in Fiction Writing

The Virginia Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Mid-American Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, College English, Mondo Barbie, Mondo Elvis, The Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems 1964-1999, Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Exquisite Corpse, Passages North, Vital Signs, Quarterly West, Meridian, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, The Sacred Place, Buck and Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000, Appalachian Heritage, Connecticut Review, The Cincinnati Review, Mississippi Review, and etc.

University of Wyoming, University of Michigan, Smith College, New York University, 92^nd Street Y, Bethesda Writers Center, Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh, NC), Barnes & Noble (VA, MD, MA), Virginia Commonwealth University, New Dominion Bookstore, Charlottesville Festival of the Book, Anglia Polytechnic University (Cambridge), Miami Book Fair International, The Globe Bookstore (Prague),  Stonecoast Writers Conference (Maine), Roanoke College, Blue Ridge Writers Conference (VPI, Blacksburg, VA). Prairie Lights Bookstore (Iowa City), AWP Conference 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. The Ruminator (St. Paul, MN), The Book Stall (Chicago), and etc.

Colorado Art Ranch, Steamboat Springs, CO, Residency: April-May, 2008.

New American Paintings, runner-up; Stephen Bennet Phillips, juror, 2007.

Blair Wiley Fishwick Memorial Award, “Contemplation Cubes” sculptures by

     Ann Glover and Cathryn Hankla; Roanoke Sidewalk Art Show, 2005.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,  Residencies: 2007, 2006, 2005, 1986.

“Powerful Angels,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, 100 Other Distinguished

     Stories of 2000: in The Best American Short Stories, 2001.

Finalist: 4^th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Award in Poetry for Texas

     School Book Depository: prose poems (2001).

Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain, Residency: April 2001.

Cabell Fellowship, sabbatical, 2007-08, 2000-01, and 1993-94.            

Herta T. Freitag Faculty Legacy Award, Hollins University, February 2000.

Poetry Fellowship, Virginia Commission for the Arts, December 1997.

Author, Twentieth Century Virginia Writers Map, 1994.

Mednick Grant for Research, Virginia Association of Independent Colleges,

     Summer, 1993.

Glenn Grant for Summer Research, W&LU, 1990.

PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, "Lost in Space," 1989.

Breakthrough Award in fiction (Learning the Mother Tongue), University of

     Missouri P, 1987.

Breakthrough Award in poetry (Phenomena), University of Missouri P, 1983.

Waiter’s Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 1977.