curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
MFA in Poetry Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale, NY 1997
BA in English The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 1993
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Poet, University of California at Berkeley 2009
Writing Tutor and Workshop Leader, San Diego Writer’s Ink 2001-2008
English Teacher, full-time, all grades, Lehman High School, Bronx, NY 1996-1998
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PROFESSIONAL WRITING EXPERIENCE
Staff Writer, The San Diego Reader, San Diego, CA 2003-2008
Feature Writer, Connecticut Daily Campus, Storrs, CT 1989-1993
Feature Writer, The Milford Citizen, Milford, CT 1987-1989
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Writer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2009
Workshop Instructor, San Diego Writers Ink 2007
Workshop Instructor, Brawley High School, Brawley, CA 2007
Judge, San Diego Writers Ink Poetry Contest 2006
Workshop Instructor, Brawley High School, Brawley, CA 2006
Workshop Instructor, San Diego Jewish Academy, San Diego, CA 2006
Workshop Instructor, Carlsbad Library, Carlsbad, CA 2001
Workshop Instructor, Society for Ethical Culture, Bronx, NY 1998
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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Roberta C. Holloway Lectureship, University of California at Berkeley 2009
APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Heather McHugh 2005
White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Award 2000
Writer-in-residence, fellowship from Bard College in Provence, France 1997
Wallace Stevens Award best student poem, all public Connecticut universities 1993
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PUBLICATIONS
Poetry:
Book:
Living Room (2005, Copper Canyon), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize
Chapbooks:
Everybody Had a Hat (2000, WECS Press), winner of WECS Press Poetry Contest
Rare Future (1992, The NFS Press)
Journals:
American Letters & Commentary; American Poetry Review;Barrow Street;Blackwater Review; Boston Review; The Café Review; Columbia Poetry Review; Conduit; Denver Quarterly; Dirigible; Fish Drum; Fourteen Hills, The SFSU Review; Front Porch; Gargoyle; Goodfoot; GutCult; Hunger;Insurance; Iowa Review; jubilat;key satch(el); La Petite Zine; Lilliput Review; LIT; LUNGFULL!; Mipoesias; Mudfish; New American Writing; Noon; Octopus; Oxford Magazine; Paragraph; Pleiades; Quarter After Eight; Sal Mimeo; Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics; 6,500; 3rd Bed; Tundra;Unpleasant Event Schedule; Untitled;VOLT; West Branch; Western Humanities Review
Prose:
from The San Diego Reader (all essays appeared as cover stories):
“B-Ball” (Nov. 6, 2003), “Service Personality” (March 11, 2004), “The Natural Blonde” (May 6, 2004), “The Secret Lives of News Anchors” (May 13, 2004), “Something that Intoxicates or Exhilarates” (June 3, 2004), “Men’s Summer Swimsuit Issue” (July 1, 2004), “When Dinner Was 50 Cents” (Nov. 24, 2004), “On the Bus From Rosa’s Cantina to Home Sweet Broadway and First” (Dec. 9, 2004), “Candy Man” (Dec. 16, 2004), “More or Less Sudden Mountains” (Jan. 13, 2005), “ABC’s of SD” (July 6, 2005), “Our Panther” (July 13, 2005), “Tools of the Trade” (Sept. 1, 2005), “Rats!” (Sept. 22, 2005), “Where Cartoons Aren’t for Kids” (Nov. 10, 2005); “Texas Hold ‘Em (Jan. 12, 2006); “Pardon the French” (Jan. 26, 2006); “High Flyers” (March 16, 2006); “San Diego Models Tell All” (March 30, 2006); “Sax” (April 20, 2006); “The World is a Cactus” (June 15, 2006); “Women Think that Men are Hairy Women” (July 27, 2006); “Machines for Living” (August 24, 2006); “Bares Rule!” (Sept. 7, 2006); “Guatemalan Dream of American Green” (Sept. 14, 2006) “Heartbreak? That’s Fishing. Frustration? That’s Fishing. The Good Life? That’s Fishing.” (Nov. 30, 2006); “It’s Not a Race Thing…It’s Style” (Dec. 21, 2006); “Where the Mail Goes When it Doesn’t Get to You” (Feb. 1, 2007); “Shopping List” (Feb. 15, 2007); “The Best Players in the World: Filipinos and Pool” (March 1, 2007); “The Nothing That is Not There And The Nothing That Is” (March 15, 2007); “Is the Sun in Your Eyes or Are You Just Avoiding Me?” (April 5, 2007); “Touchy Business” (May 17, 2007); “When You Play Chess, You Can’t Hide Who You Are” (May 31, 2007); “Faster is Better” (June 6, 2007); “How to Paint a Portrait” (June 28, 2007); “Plenty of Booze” (July 19, 2007); “Do You Feel Safe at School?” (August 30, 2007); “We’ve Grown Up in Paradise” (Nov. 8, 2007); “The Second Lives of San Diegans” (Nov. 21, 2007); “I’m as Big as a Vons” (Jan. 30, 2008); “To Live and Die in Oceanside” (Feb. 20, 2008); “Chivalry is Not Dead” (March 26, 2008) “No One’s Ever Told Me That I Look Like a Fish” (April 23, 2008); “You Wanna Pull?” (June 11, 2008); “Way Too Many People Live Out Here” (July 23, 2008); “What’s Wrong with Balboa Park?” (July 30, 3008); “They Think They’re in Love” (September 4, 2008); “Illegal Ways to Avoid the Border Wait” (October 9, 2008); “$120 Million is Music to Our Ears” (November 5, 2008); “It’s Getting Ugly Downtown” (December 3, 2008); “Deadly Mosquitoes Breed in Our Urban Drool” (January 21, 2009)
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FEATURED READINGS
| Casa Romantica Reading Series | San Clemente, CA | Feb. 2008 |
| Rebecca’s Coffeehouse | San Diego, CA | Nov. 2007 |
| Barnes and Noble | San Diego, CA | June 2007 |
| San Diego State University | San Diego, CA | Feb. 2007 |
| Collected Stories Bookstore | Milford, CT | Jan. 2007 |
| Warwick’s Bookstore | San Diego, CA | April 2006 |
| Tattered Cover Bookstore | Denver, CO | April 2006 |
| Emma’s Café | Cottonwood Falls, KS | April 2006 |
| The Writer’s Place | Kansas City, KS | April 2006 |
| Prairie Lights Bookstore | Iowa City, IA | April 2006 |
| Myopic Books | Chicago, IL | April 2006 |
| K.G.B. Bar | New York City | April 2006 |
| Borders Bookstore | San Diego, CA | March 2006 |
| Longfellow Books | Portland, ME | Jan. 2006 |
| D.G. Wills Bookstore | La Jolla, CA | Sept. 2005 |
| Medicine Show | New York City | March 2001 |
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