| Degree: |
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990 |
| Area Groups: |
Creative Writing; Modern British; Modernist |
| Major Publications: |
The Reef (Chicago, 1999), Civilization (Flood Editions, 2006) |
| Articles: |
Poems and essays in Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, Literary Imagination, Chicago Review, Antioch Review, Pequod, Sagetrieb, Gulf Coast, Tikkun, The American Journal of Nursing, Smartish Pace, Kalliope, At Length, Traffic, Poetry Daily, plus an afterword to Mina Loy’s novel, Insel (Black Sparrow Press, 1991), which she edited.
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| Teaching & Service: |
Poetry Faculty, MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, 2004; Writing Committee, Fine Arts Work Center, 2005-present; Poetry Screening Jury (Judge: Louise Glück), Bakeless First Book Contest, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 2003; Poetry Jury, Bunting Fellowship Program, 2001-present; Shelley Award Jury, Poetry Society of America, 2000; Poetry Jury, The Fine Arts Work Center, 2000-present; Joan Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellow, English Department, Warren Wilson College, 1998-1999; Adjunct Professor, English Department, University of North Florida, 1992-1993; Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Montana, 1989-1990; Instructor, University of Chicago, 1985-1988. |
| Fellowships & Prizes: |
Ucross Fellowship, 2008; Bellagio Study Center Fellowship, 2007; Pushcart Prize Nominee in Poetry, 2003, 2006, 2009; CAPA Award in Poetry, University of Maryland Division of the Arts & Humanities, Summer 2003 & 2007; Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Writer’s Fellowship in poetry, 2002; Robert Frost Fellowship (2002) and Scholarship (1997), Bread Loaf Writers Conference; Bunting Fellowship in Poetry, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 1999-2001; Lannan Foundation Fellowship in Poetry at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1997-1998; Friends of Writers HIP Scholarship, 1996; Napa Valley Writers Conference Scholarship, 1996; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, 1996; Fundación Valparaíso Fellowship, 1996; Yaddo Fellowship, 1995. |
