EDUCATION
Ph.D. English May, 2007
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Areas of Specialization: Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, 20th-Century Literature
Dissertation Title: Beyond the Divide: A Bicycle Journey across the West
Chair: Dr. Jonis Agee
M.A. English, August, 2002
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Thesis: This Far North: Alaska Stories
B.A. Secondary Education, May, 1989
Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
(Submitted for the Spring 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award).
Essays
"Bicycling the Cowboy State,” The Laurel Review, Winter 2007.
“Like A Haggard Ghost: A San Francisco Journal.” Paddlefish, Summer 2007. (Nominated for
Pushcart and Nonfiction Award, 2007).
“Because the Stars We See at Night Are Not the Stars that are There,” Isotope (forthcoming).
Fiction
“In the Long Shadow of a Winter Morning,” South Dakota Review, Spring 2006.
“Glass Fragments on the Shoulder of Highway 375,” Quarter After Eight (forthcoming).
Poems
“The Twenty-Fourth Letter,” Eclipse, Volume Eighteen, Fall 2007.
“This Poem Mumbles Incoherently to Itself as it Walks Down the Crowded Street,” Eclipse,
Volume Eighteen, Fall 2007.
Reviews
“K. L. Cook’s The Girl from Charnelle,” Prairie Schooner, Fall 2007.
“Timothy Schaffert’s The Singing and Dancing Daughter’s of God,” Prairie Schooner, Summer 2006.
TEACHING AREAS
Creative Writing (Nonfiction/Fiction and Poetry), Literature of Ecology, 20th Century American Literature,
Composition, Contemporary U. S. West Literature, Travel Literature and the Journey Narrative,
Magical Realist Literature
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (All courses independently developed and taught)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Communication and Culture,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 2007-Present
Courses Taught
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2002-Summer 2007.
Courses Taught
Klosterman and Rick Bass
Faculty, Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference, High School Writers’ Workshops,
Fiction/Memoir/Creative Nonfiction, June 17-18, 2006
Community Workshop, Lincoln, Nebraska, F Street Recreation Center, Oct. 19 & Nov. 2, 2005
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Writing Assistance Center Tutor, Spring 2004
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska Literary Journal
Senior Fiction Reader, Spring 2005
Reading Assistant, Fall 2001- Spring 2002
Book Prize Reader
Prairie Schooner Book Award, Manuscript Reader, 2003–2007
Omaha Prize Book Award, Manuscript Reader, 2002
Writer’s Conference Experience
Taos Summer Writer’s Conference 2004, Conference Assistant
Nebraska Summer Writer’s Conference, 2003-2004 & 2006, Conference Assistant
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Brittain Fellow in Writing, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Tech
University, 2007-Present (Up to three-year appointment)
Robert L. Hough Junior Staff Teaching Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006
Awarded annually for record of outstanding and sustained achievement in classroom.
One of three recipients
Frederick A. & Minnie J.M. Stuff Dissertation Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
2006-2007, Awarded to Ph.D.candidates for excellence in scholarship
One of five recipients
Certificate of Recognition for Contribution to Students
Awarded by The Parents Association and The Teaching Council of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2003 and Spring, 2006
Louise Van Sickle Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2005-2006
Awarded annually to one fiction writer in UN-L Ph.D. program
Wilbur and Elizabeth Gaffney Travel Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 2004
Marguerite C. McPhee and Clare McPhee Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Fall, 2001-Spring, 2003
PRESENTATIONS
“The Trickiness of Truth: The Memoir Panel,” Omaha Lit Fest, Omaha, Nebraska,
September 16, 2006
Featured Panelist, “The Genealogy of a Dissertation/Chapter Workshop”
English Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 27, 2006
Beyond the Divide, (excerpt), “Writing From the Inside Out,” NOW Nonfiction
Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, November 8-11, 2005
“The Use of Photography in the Creative Writing Classroom”
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 24-27, 2004
Shadows Moving Across Ice, (excerpt). “Alaska of the Pacific Region.”
Regionalism and the Humanities Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 20-22, 2003
Featured Panelist, Composition Workshop for New Teaching Assistants
English Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 18, 2003
CLASS VISITS
Laurus Undergraduate Literary Journal, September, 2006.
Question/Answer Session: “Evaluating the Short Story”
Advanced Writing of Fiction, November, 2004. Reading and Question/Answer
Session
Writing of Fiction (252), February, 2004, Reading and Question/Answer Session
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Executive Board Member, English Graduate Student Association, 2003-2005
Treasurer (2004-2005).
Graduate Committee, Student Representative. Served two year appointment as only student, 2003 - 2005
member. Committee evaluated and ranked graduate student applications for admission, and approved
Ph.D. student comprehensive exam reading lists.
MA Revision Committee, Student Representative, 2001 - 2002
One of two student members. Committee successfully completed objective of evaluating and
proposing changes to MA program to better meet needs of students and profession.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
Modern Language Association (MLA).
Western Language Association (WLA).
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
Ph.D. English May, 2007
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Areas of Specialization: Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, 20th-Century Literature
Dissertation Title: Beyond the Divide: A Bicycle Journey across the West
Chair: Dr. Jonis Agee
M.A. English, August, 2002
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Thesis: This Far North: Alaska Stories
B.A. Secondary Education, May, 1989
Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
(Submitted for the Spring 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award).
Essays
"Bicycling the Cowboy State,” The Laurel Review, Winter 2007.
“Like A Haggard Ghost: A San Francisco Journal.” Paddlefish, Summer 2007. (Nominated for
Pushcart and Nonfiction Award, 2007).
“Because the Stars We See at Night Are Not the Stars that are There,” Isotope (forthcoming).
Fiction
“In the Long Shadow of a Winter Morning,” South Dakota Review, Spring 2006.
“Glass Fragments on the Shoulder of Highway 375,” Quarter After Eight (forthcoming).
Poems
“The Twenty-Fourth Letter,” Eclipse, Volume Eighteen, Fall 2007.
“This Poem Mumbles Incoherently to Itself as it Walks Down the Crowded Street,” Eclipse,
Volume Eighteen, Fall 2007.
Reviews
“K. L. Cook’s The Girl from Charnelle,” Prairie Schooner, Fall 2007.
“Timothy Schaffert’s The Singing and Dancing Daughter’s of God,” Prairie Schooner, Summer 2006.
TEACHING AREAS
Creative Writing (Nonfiction/Fiction and Poetry), Literature of Ecology, 20th Century American Literature,
Composition, Contemporary U. S. West Literature, Travel Literature and the Journey Narrative,
Magical Realist Literature
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (All courses independently developed and taught)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Communication and Culture,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 2007-Present
Courses Taught
- ENGL 1101 Composition I -- Technology-enriched writing course focused on written argument, exploring
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2002-Summer 2007.
Courses Taught
- 352 Advanced Fiction Writing – Workshop model with additional emphasis on advanced fictional elements
- 252 Creative Writing: The Writing of Fiction – Introductory fiction writing course
- 205 20th-Century Literature – Covered range of novels and short stories, including works by Faulkner, Baldwin,
- 254 Rhetorical Practices and Writing Communities – Nonfiction writing course focusing on personal narrative,
Klosterman and Rick Bass
- 180 Introduction to Literature – Summer NU Start program with heavy writing and discussion focus designed
- 101H Writing From Literature (Honors) ) – Course focused on journey narratives and included texts by Chaucer,
- 101 Writing From Literature – Course included range of texts including novels (Frankenstein and Winter in the
- 150 Writing Rhetoric –Personal narrative and experiential based-writing focus
Faculty, Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference, High School Writers’ Workshops,
Fiction/Memoir/Creative Nonfiction, June 17-18, 2006
Community Workshop, Lincoln, Nebraska, F Street Recreation Center, Oct. 19 & Nov. 2, 2005
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Writing Assistance Center Tutor, Spring 2004
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska Literary Journal
Senior Fiction Reader, Spring 2005
Reading Assistant, Fall 2001- Spring 2002
Book Prize Reader
Prairie Schooner Book Award, Manuscript Reader, 2003–2007
Omaha Prize Book Award, Manuscript Reader, 2002
Writer’s Conference Experience
Taos Summer Writer’s Conference 2004, Conference Assistant
Nebraska Summer Writer’s Conference, 2003-2004 & 2006, Conference Assistant
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Brittain Fellow in Writing, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Tech
University, 2007-Present (Up to three-year appointment)
Robert L. Hough Junior Staff Teaching Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006
Awarded annually for record of outstanding and sustained achievement in classroom.
One of three recipients
Frederick A. & Minnie J.M. Stuff Dissertation Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
2006-2007, Awarded to Ph.D.candidates for excellence in scholarship
One of five recipients
Certificate of Recognition for Contribution to Students
Awarded by The Parents Association and The Teaching Council of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2003 and Spring, 2006
Louise Van Sickle Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2005-2006
Awarded annually to one fiction writer in UN-L Ph.D. program
Wilbur and Elizabeth Gaffney Travel Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 2004
Marguerite C. McPhee and Clare McPhee Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Fall, 2001-Spring, 2003
PRESENTATIONS
“The Trickiness of Truth: The Memoir Panel,” Omaha Lit Fest, Omaha, Nebraska,
September 16, 2006
Featured Panelist, “The Genealogy of a Dissertation/Chapter Workshop”
English Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 27, 2006
Beyond the Divide, (excerpt), “Writing From the Inside Out,” NOW Nonfiction
Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, November 8-11, 2005
“The Use of Photography in the Creative Writing Classroom”
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 24-27, 2004
Shadows Moving Across Ice, (excerpt). “Alaska of the Pacific Region.”
Regionalism and the Humanities Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 20-22, 2003
Featured Panelist, Composition Workshop for New Teaching Assistants
English Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 18, 2003
CLASS VISITS
Laurus Undergraduate Literary Journal, September, 2006.
Question/Answer Session: “Evaluating the Short Story”
Advanced Writing of Fiction, November, 2004. Reading and Question/Answer
Session
Writing of Fiction (252), February, 2004, Reading and Question/Answer Session
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Executive Board Member, English Graduate Student Association, 2003-2005
Treasurer (2004-2005).
Graduate Committee, Student Representative. Served two year appointment as only student, 2003 - 2005
member. Committee evaluated and ranked graduate student applications for admission, and approved
Ph.D. student comprehensive exam reading lists.
MA Revision Committee, Student Representative, 2001 - 2002
One of two student members. Committee successfully completed objective of evaluating and
proposing changes to MA program to better meet needs of students and profession.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
Modern Language Association (MLA).
Western Language Association (WLA).
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
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