Ph.D. in literature, Louisiana State University, May 1998

Dissertation
"American Medusa, American Sphinx: The Female Gaze and Knowledge in Modern Fiction and Film."
Uses novels by Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Larsen and films directed by Hitchcock, Malick, Sirk, Fitzmaurice, Stahl, Kazan, and Welles to argue, first, that feminist film theory is a tool well adapted to analyzing literary texts and, second, that the gaze is not necessarily singular or male; instead, it is a site of complex negotiations informed by gender, race, sexual orientation, age, and class.

Committee
Elsie Michie (director), Richard Moreland, Robin Roberts, and David Wills

M.F.A. in poetry, Louisiana State University, 1992

Thesis
"Difficult Beauties: Poems"

Committee
Dave Smith (director), Vance Bourjaily, Rodger Kamenetz, and Emily Toth

M.A. in English and creative writing, San Francisco State University, 1983

Thesis
"Possible Worlds: Poems"

Directors
Kathleen Fraser and William Dickey

Creative Work
Poetry, creative nonfiction, film and video making

Teaching Experience
American literature, creative writing (poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, autobiography, screenwriting), women's studies, composition, publishing (book and magazine)

Difficult Beauties: Poems, under consideration at a major university press.

Long Division: Poems. Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 1998.

Nine poems in The Wandering Mother: A Collection of Prose and Poetry. Fairfax, CA: Emerging Island Cultures Press, 1989. 15-39.

Weather Inside. Fairfax, CA: Emerging Island Cultures Press, 1989.

"What it is" and Darwin said, an eight-poem sequence. Emerging Island Cultures: A Collection of Stories and Poems. San Francisco: Emerging Island Cultures Press, 1984. 25-38, 68-69.

"Separation." Calyx, forthcoming in 1999.

"Planet." Connecticut Review, forthcoming in 1999.

"You've Got to Know How to Pony." Pop 101, forthcoming in 1999.

"Fine" and "Sea Key." New Orleans Review 23.1 (1997): 65-66.

"Report from Otis Street" and "Her Return." Denver Quarterly 31.4 (1997): 42-43.

"Hottest June on Record" and "The Tiger & the Silk Slip." The Maple Leaf Rag: 15th Anniversary Anthology. New Orleans: Portals Press, 1994. 185-86.

"The Tiger & the Silk Slip." Lilt [spring 1994]: n.p.

"Sigmund Freud Asks Me to Read 'The Relation of the Poet to Daydreaming.'" Ergo! 1992: 78-80.

"Sixth Grade" and "War." Witness 5.1 (1992): 126-27.

"Portrait in Oil and Watercolor." Deep South Writers' Conference Chapbook. Lafayette, LA: U of Southwestern Louisiana, 1991. 33-34.

"Long Division." The Southern Review 26 (1990): 900-01.

"Hottest June on Record." Louisiana Literature 7.2 (1990): 37.

"In the other world where we are guilty." Exquisite Corpse 5.1-5 (1987): 5.

"To a little clatter of hooves." Slant 1 (1987): 137.

"Santa Monica, California, 1949." Berkeley Poetry Review 18-19 (1985): 99-100.

"Testing: By the knife." Michigan Quarterly Review 24 (1985): 265-66.

"Looking at X-rays." Quarry West 20 (1984): 18.

"The Greenhouse Keeper" and "To Balzac." Deepest Valley Review 3 (1984): 8-11.

"Imagination in a Temperate Climate," "Swans and Geese," and "Hands." Quarry West 16 (1982): 7-13.

"Perhaps in sleep." FRANK Magazine (San Francisco) 5 (n.d.): 29.

1998
Sundance Showcase, Sacramento Festival of Cinema, Sacramento, CA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Southern Stories, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL

1996
The UFO Show, Mobius, Boston, MA
Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA

1995
Broadway Arts Building, Asheville, NC

1994
New Orleans Community Access Television, New Orleans, LA
Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA

1993
New Orleans Film and Video Festival, New Orleans, LA
Baton Rouge Gallery (site-specific video and sculpture installation), Baton Rouge, LA
Uncool Orbit première, School of Music, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
Guild Complex Poetry Video Festival, Chicago, IL. (Selected for "Deep Fringe," best of festival compilation videotape)
20th Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
Texas Independent Film/Video Producers' Showcase, North Texas Public Broadcasting, Dallas

1992
Louisianalysis, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
New Orleans Film and Video Festival, New Orleans, LA
Bumbershoot: The Seattle Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Axlegrease public television series, Buffalo Media Resources, Buffalo, NY
North Carolina International Film and Video Festival, Fayetteville, NC
International Women's Film and Video Festival, Austin, TX

1991
16th Annual Poetry Film and Videopoem Festival, San Francisco, CA
18th Annual Mill Valley Film Festival/Videofest, Mill Valley, CA
10th Annual September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA

Over 100 poetry readings in Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; San Francisco, San Anselmo, Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, Los Angeles, and Pasadena, CA; Houston, TX; Baton Rouge and New Orleans, LA; Birmingham, AL; Memphis, TN; Atlanta, Madison, Commerce, and Athens, GA; Clinton, SC; Asheville, NC; Charlottesville and Sweet Briar, VA; Washington, DC; Saratoga Springs and Blue Mountain, NY; and Lake Forest, IL.

Lectures and presentations at Associated Writing Programs Conference, University of Georgia Center for Humanities and Arts, Sacramento Festival of Cinema, Women's History Month Celebration (The University of Georgia), Women's Studies Lecture Series (The University of Georgia), Presbyterian College, Law School (The University of Georgia), Nicholls State University, Baton Rouge Gallery, Alexandria Museum of Art, M.H. de Young Museum, California Art Education Association Statewide Conference, WUGA (PBS affiliate).

1997-98
Lecturer, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Claire Denis's Chocolat, Feminist Ethnography
Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, Feminist Ethnography
Literary editing, Georgia Scholastic Press Association, School of Journalism

1993-95
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
"Major American Writers" English 2070
"Introduction to Poetry Writing" English 2007
"Freshman Composition" English 1001

1987-89
Instructor, Creative Writing, San Jose City College, San Jose, CA
Fundamentals of Creative Writing" English 72 A-C

1983-89
Instructor, English, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
Comprehensive writing review

1987-88
Instructor, Creative Writing, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
"Creative Writing I & II" English 161 AA-AC
"Writing Your Autobiography" English 880 (new course design)

1983-88
Instructor, Creative Writing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
"Fundamentals of Creative Writing" Creative Writing 301 (course for majors)
"Introduction to Creative Writing" Creative Writing 101 (course for non-majors)
"Directed Writing" Creative Writing 609 (course for undergraduates)
"Projects in Creative Writing" Creative Writing 809 (course for graduates)

1983-86
Instructor, Expository Writing, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
"Introduction to Composition" Expository Writing 110 (sections for international students and native speakers)
"Intermediate Composition" Expository Writing 200
"Forms of Public Writing" Expository Writing 211
Writing Center instructor

1982-83
Graduate English Tutor, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
Specializing in business writing and cross-cultural communication

1985-91
Poet/Consultant
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Designed and lead workshops in the galleries, exploring poetry writing as a response to visual art, comparing visual artist's process to poet's.

1983-89
Poet/Teacher
California Poets in the Schools

1995-2000
Assistant Editor, The Georgia Review, The University of Georgia
Editing a quarterly journal of poems, stories, essays, and reviews with a circulation of 6,000 and submissions of 15,000 manuscripts per year. Responsibility for screening, soliciting, developing, and copyediting manuscripts in all genres. Planning, coordinating, and publicizing a reading series, residencies for visiting artists, and fiftieth anniversary readings and celebration. Writing and maintaining journal's Web site and resolving problems with lost, misplaced, and delayed submissions.

1990-93
Research Assistant for Emily Toth, Louisiana State University
Researched references in Kate Chopin's diaries and letters. Developed editorial methodology and transcribed Chopin's manuscript submission diary. Administered annual Toth Award for Popular Culture Association.

1990-93
Writer
Louisiana State University Press

1990-92
Editor-in-Chief, New Delta Review, Louisiana State University
Edited biannual literary journal with international submissions and distribution. Responsible for production, budget, fund-raising, distribution, publicity, organization of benefit readings, and supervision of staff. Served as poetry editor for one year.

1991-92
Resource Coordinator, Louisiana State University
Coordinated development of new Women's and Gender Studies Program, including supervision of student workers. Steering committee member and curator of Women's Studies collection.

Creative Writing Coordinator
Graduate Student Conference on Languages & Literature, Louisiana State University

1981
Grant Writer for Deborah Rosenfelt, San Francisco State University
Researched and developed grant materials for the Chancellor's Maxi-Grant, "Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Curriculum."

Freelance Editor and Proofreader, Los Angeles, CA
Edited trade books and textbooks for such companies as Harper & Row and Jossey-Bass.

1998
Phi Kappa Phi

1995
Second prize, Society for Cinema Studies Award for Scholarly Writing

1989-93
Alumni Federation Fellowship, Louisiana State University

1992
First prize, Academy of American Poets Contest, Louisiana State University

1982
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Contest, San Francisco State University