2012 - Present | Adjunct Instructor, Dominican University of California ‐ Department of Literature and Languages | |
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2008 - Present | Senior Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature | |
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1998 - 2008 | Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature | |
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2000 - 2001 | Adjunct Professor, New College of California ‐ Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Conciousness Program | |
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1994 - 1998 | Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature | |
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1987 - 1988 | Lecturer, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature | |
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1983 - 1985 | Lecturer, San Francisco State University ‐ Department of Creative Writing | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2003 | Individual Artist Grant in Fiction |
Marin Arts Council |
Professional Service and Affiliations
Present | Editorial Board Member, Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing | Co-Leader, Alumni Writer's Group, Harvard Medical School, Media and Medicine Certificat Program | Member and Alternate Host, Lisbon Writing Group | Leader, Trips for Writers |
Honors and Awards
- Java Jive Short Shorts Award, 2003
- Fiction Winner, 2007
- Bronze Salas Award, 2008
- Merit Award for Creative or Scholarly Works, 2017
- Bath Flash Fiction Award: Novella in Flash Long List & Short List, 2017
- Lucid Moments: Books as Viewfinders, Tamaqua Award Semi-Finalist for a Book of Essays, Hidden River Arts, 2019
- “BFFs” Ernest Hemingway Prize for Short Fiction Finalist, 2020
- “Where I’ve Been” Honorable Mention, Solas Award, Travelers Tales, 2021
- “False Positives” Distinguished Finalist, LitMag’s Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction, 2021
- “Breezy Girl on a High Balcony” Honorable Mention Photo Story Contest Winner, 2021
- “Alive in Lisbon” | Living Loving Longing Lisbon: An Anthology of Short Stories by Writers from Around the World, Nov 2021
- “Running Boy” | Longlisted, International Flash Fiction Competition, Reflex Fiction Quarterly Summer 2021
- “Breezy Girl on a High Balcony” | Honorable Mention Winner, Photo Story Contest, Paper Ghosts, Spring 2021
- “The Desk” | ROAM: Representations of Home, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Spring/Summer 2021
- “Will Work for Food” | Farmer-ish, Spring 2021
- “Reappearance” | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, The Clock Issue, May 2022
- “Cornered in Madrid” | Soundtrack of Travel Competition Finalist, Intrepid Times 2023
- “Ghosts in the Black Forest” | Gold Solas Award Winner: Love Story, Travelers Tales 2023
- “Fado Dreams and Axial Sojourns” | Living Loving Longing Lisbon: An Anthology of Short Stories by Writers from Around the World Volume 2, December 2023
Courses
- Griefwriting and Joywriting
- English 3200: Advanced Research and Writing
2013 | Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies | |
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1983 | M.A., San Francisco State University ‐ Department of English | |
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1977 | B.A., Rutgers University ‐ Department of English | |
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Contact Information
Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901
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