Genre: Poetry, Textbooks

Audience: Adult

Published Works:

Understory, Northeastern University Press, 1996; Writing Poems, 4th ed. (co-authored with Robert Wallace), HarperCollins, 1995; No Private Life, Vanderbilt University Press, 1990; East of the Sun and West of the Moon, St. Louis Poetry Center, 1989

Have any works been translated into other languages? No>

Awards: NEA Poetry Fellowship, 1989; Poetry Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1995; Al Smith Poetry Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council, 1988; 2nd Place, Hanks Missouri Poets Contest, St. Louis Poetry Center, Inc., 1997; Walter E. Dakin Fellow 1996, Sewanee Writers conference, The University of the South; Samual French Morse Poetry Prize 1996, Northeastern University Press; Finalist (top 10), Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for best manuscript in process, Poetry Society of America, 1995; Editor's Award, poetry, Cream City Review, 1993; Pushcart Prize Nominations, 1986-1997; Lucille Medwick Award (Best Poem on a Humanitarian Theme), Poetry Society of America, 1992; Honorable Mention, short story, 1990 Literary Awards, The Greensboro Review, 1991; Bread Loaf Scholarship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers conference, Middlebury College, VT, 1989; 1st Prize, Stanley Hanks Poetry Chapbook Contest, St. Louis Poetry Center, 1989; Finalist (top 20), Redbook short story contest, 1989; Cecil Hemley Award (Best Poem on a Philosophical Theme), Poetry Society of America, 1988; 1st Prize, National Poetry Competition, Chester H. Jones Foundation, 1985; 1st runner-up, Narrative Poetry contest, New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, 1985; Ark River Review Chapbook Competition, Wichita State University, 1980

Speaking Engagements:

Author accepts.
Fee for speaking: Variable

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