curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
1997 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale, NY, MFA (Poetry)
1993 The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, BA (English with Music Minor)
1986 Jospeh A. Foran High School, Milford, CT, Graduate with Second Honors
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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2005 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Heather McHugh
2000 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Award
1997 Writer-in-residence fellowship from Bard College in Provence, France
1993 Wallace Stevens Award from The Connecticut State University system
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PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
Volume:
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; Gargoyle; Goodfoot; Hunger; Insurance; jubilat; key satch(el); La Petite Zine; Lilliput Review; LIT; LUNGFULL!; Mipoesias; Mudfish; New American Writing; Noon; Oxford Magazine; Paragraph; Pleiades; Quarter After Eight; Sal Mimeo; 6;500; 3rd Bed; Tundra; 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)
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EXPERIENCE
Teaching:
2001- Individual Writing Tutor and Workshop Leader, San Diego, CA
1996-1998 English Professor full-time, Lehman High School, Bronx, NY
1990-1993 Writing Tutor, The Writing Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Writing:
2003- Staff Writer, The San Diego Reader, San Diego, CA
1989-1993 Feature Writer, Connecticut Daily Campus, Storrs, CT
1987-1989 Feature Writer, The Milford Citizen, Milford, CT
Other:
2000- Service Captain, Maitre D’, Tapenade Restaurant, La Jolla, CA
1994-2000 Bartender, Josepina Restaurant, Bronx, NY
1991-1994 Waiter, The SpringHouse Hotel, Block Island, RI
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FEATURED READINGS
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, KA, April 2006
The Writer’s Place, Kansas City, KA, 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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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2006 Poetry Workshops for High School Students, San Diego Jewish Academy, San Diego, CA
1998 Special adjunct to teach poetry to high school teachers, Lehman High School, Bronx, NY
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2007 Workshop Instructor, San Diego Writers Ink
2007 Workshop Instructor, Brawley High School, Brawley, CA
2006 Judge, San Diego Writers Ink Poetry Contest
2006 Workshop Instructor, Brawley High School, Brawley, CA
2001 Workshop Instructor, Carlsbad Library, Carlsbad, CA
1998 Workshop Instructor, Society for Ethical Culture, Bronx, NY