AcknowledgementsAnger Pebble Lake Review, Winter 2005 The Love Poems Of Anne Sexton Driftwood, Issue 8, Spring 2005 Another Field The Litchfield Review, April 2005 Yes It’s A Love Poem Lilliput Review, October 2005 Eve Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005 The Arboretum Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005 And Then This Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005 How We Love Our Parents Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005 She Actually Became my Friend Swallow The Moon, Issue 2, Spring 2006 Welfare In America Swallow The Moon, Issue 2, Spring 2006 The Day Before She Died Swallow The Moon, Issue 2, Spring 2006 Fortune Cookie Shadow Poetry-SP Quill Quarterly, 2006 Tucson The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006 Walking Away The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006 Communion The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006 New Year In Florida The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006 The Language of Living The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006 The Arb The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006 And Then This The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006 Trip To Cherokee American Poetry Review, 2006Fortune Cookie SP Quill, Volume 11, 2006 A Lesson About Boys Hazmat Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2007 A Bedouin Girl On a Hill In Israel Driftwood Review 2008 The End of Sorrow Poetry in performance 36, 2008 Assisted Living RATTLE, Summer 2008 Capitalism South Carolina MARGIE The American Journal of Poetry, Volume 7, 2008 Row Boat Albatrose, Issue 19, 2008 First Light New Verse News, 2008 A Bedouin Girl On a Hill in Israel Driftwood, Number 9, 2008 Test Trials A & U Magazine, Issue 171, 2009 Postcard of Three Obese, Yet Confident Women… Poetry in Performance, issue 35, 2008 Detroit Rebirth New York Quarterly, 2009 Genuine Artifical Nothing Symbolon, 2010 Father Gone Speakeasy XIX, 2009 Spring Driftwood, Number 10 "Earth" Decent The Dunes Review, 2010 Cement Ambassador Poetry Project, 2010 Popeye, Returns, You Left, At The Miami University Renaissance City, Issue II, 2010 Key School, Domestic Violence, In My Family My Job Was Controlled Burn, Volume XVI, Spring 2010 Another field Michigan Poets, 2010 A Canal In Southern Florida Driftwood, "Water" 2011 Review of The Ordinary Red River Review, 2011 Truth Be Told Michigan Poets, 2011 Arthropod Third Wednesday, Summer 2011 For The Rain Third Wednesday, Summer 2011 Without The Montucky Review (online) Summer 2011
Assisted Living (a memoir) The Orange Quarterly (0nline/audio) 2011 Reader’s Write The Sun, April 2007
Contest AwardsWriter's Digest Annual Poetry Award, 2010 6th Place, Jerusalem: At The Market The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, 2010 Honorable Mention - Florida, 1969 Jane's Stories, 2010 Honorable Mention - Akko Israel Tom Howard Prize, 2009 Very Highly Recommended - Assisted Living Paumanok Poetry Award, 2008 Semi-Finalist (Group of poems) The Marjorie J. Wilson Award for Excellence in Poetry, 2008 Finalist – Capitalism South Carolina Mandy Poetry Contest 2005 Honorable Mention – Trip to Cherokee The Litchfield Review Series Contest, 2006 First Place - poems based on the journal of James Kerr Walrus Press Poetry Contest, 2004 First Place – Welfare In America Oakland Community College, 2001 (Prose Piece) First Place Essay - The Plural Form of Water
Conferences
Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2002 Jim Daniels Cranbrook Writers’ Guild, 2003 Laura Kasischke, Jim Daniels Witness & Writing, 2002 Matthew Sweeny, Tom Lynch Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2003 Laura Kasischke Bear River Writer’s Conference, 2003 Bob Hicok, Donald Hall Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2004 Allison Joseph Cranbrook Writers’ Guild, 2004 Diane Suess Witness & Writing, 2005 Bruce Weigl, Jane McCafferty Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2005 Laura Kasischke Spring Fed Arts, Walloon Tom Lux Cranbrook Writers’ Guild, 2006 J. Allyn Rosser Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2006 Nancy Eimers Ludington Weekend Conference, 2007 Nancy Eimers Bear River Writer’s Conference, 2007 Bob Hicok Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2007 Jack Ridl Winter Heat, 2007 Gerry LaFemina Bear River Writer’s Conference, 2008 Keith Taylor Summer Sun, 2008 Mary Ann Samyn Winter Heat, 2008 Gerry LaFemina Holland Writer’s Retreat, 2008 Jack Ridl West Coast Writers, 2009 Jack Ridl AWP Chicago, 2009 Bear River Writer's Conference, 2009 Thomas Lynch Frostburg Center for Creative Writing (Nightsun) Gerry LaFemina/Barbara Hurd Holland Writer's Retreat, 2009 Jack Ridl Spring Heat, 2010 Gerry LaFemina/Jack Driscoll Holland Writer's Retreat, 2010 Jack Ridl Cape May, 2011 Stephen Dunn, Dorianne Laux Spring Heat, 2011 Gerry LaFemina, Sylvia Wantanabe Bear River, 2011 Fleda Brown NightSun, 2011 Jim Daniels, Patricia Jebbeh Wesley Holland Writer's Retreat, 2011 Jack Ridl One Day Workshop, 2011 Stellasue Lee, Robert Fanning
SpringFed Arts Weekly Workshops, 2005- Mary Jo Firth Gillett
Creative Writing CoursesOakland Community College Poetry Peter Stine Oakland Community College Creative Writing Peter Stine Oakland Community College Adv. Creative Writing David James Oakland University Poetry Gladys Cardiff Oakland University Writing Tools Maureen Dunphy Oakland University Masters Course- Literary Kinds - Poetry Ed Hoeppner Ashland University MFA Session I Kathryn Winograd Ashland University MFA Summer Residency Ruth Schwartz/Peter Campion
Current WorkInstructor OCC Poetry Month Workshops- '07, '08, '09Common Ground - workshops for young adults Oak Park Senior Center Memoir Workshops Oakwood Hospital - Employee Writers Writer-In-Residence, InsideOut Literary Arts Project (www.insideoutdetroit.org) Instructor, Springfed Arts Detroit Working Writer (www.springfed.org) Instructor, Oakland Community College Women's Conference '09, '10, '11, '12
Oakland Community College: Developmental English in-class tutorTutor of Political Science ASCTutor of English – TEAM Program
Professional Certifications and DegreesAssociates Degree Oakland Community College, 2000 Bachelor of Arts in English/History Oakland University, 2005 CRLA Certification College Reading and Learning Association Tutor, 2007 Master’s Degree Some classes
Membership: American Poetry Society Michigan Poetry Society Poets & Writers Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) She Writes |