My Education
B.A. in English, Grand Valley State University, 1975.
M.A. in English and M.L.S., Western Michigan University, 1980.
My Experience
Instructor of English, Southwest Texas State University, 1980-1983.
Librarian, Austin Independent School District, 1986-2008.
Instructor for UniversalClass.com since 2002.
Instructor for numerous workshops for the Writers' League of Texas, including ones on form poetry, on marketing poetry, on sonnets, and on creativity.
Instructor for the Summer Writers Retreat in Alpine, Texas, 2008-present.
My Awards
"Vegetable Logic," my first chapbook, received a Special Citation from the Austin Writers' League, 1996.
"What Poets Are Good For" received the Poetry Society of Texas award, 1998.
Winner of the D.H. Lawrence Scholarship in Poetry at the 2003 Taos Summer Writers' Conference.
"Bluebonnets in December" won the 2010 Christina Sergeyevna Award.
My Publications
"Vegetables and Other Relationships." Austin, Texas: Plain View Press, 2000.
Editor of 6 anthologies of poetry: "di-verse-city," (1997), "di-verse-city too" (1998), "tres di-verse-city" (1999), "2001: a di-verse-city odyssey," (2001), "anniversary di-verse-city," (2002), and "Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar" (2008).
Chief editor of the "Texas Poetry Calendar" (2005-present).
Individual poems have appeared in numerous publications and poetry anthologies, many of which are listed at my website:
http://swig.tripod.com
Former editor for "Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review."
Board member of the Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF), 1996-2002.