Wordhound Credentials

Ph.D. in English, 2001, University of Missouri-Columbia.

• Comprehensive exam areas in poetry manuscript construction and contemporary science fiction.
• Dissertation (poems): Mustang Sally Pays Her Debt to Wilson Pickett.

8 years magazine experience.

• Acquisitions, proofreading, copyediting, and web content management.
• Former Poetry Editor of The Missouri Review.

3 years university-level teaching experience.

• Codesigner and coteacher of Babes in Space: Women in Science Fiction as Authors and Objects with Rachel Sage at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Dozens of recent creative and professional publication credits.

• Poems in 5am, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, The Southeast Review.
• Articles in Columbia Business Times, Columbia Home, Jefferson City Business Times.

Experienced arts organizer.

• Solstice '97 at Carhenge: A Celebration of the Arts.
• Scheduling and publicity for coffeehouse readings in Omaha and in Hastings, Nebraska.
• Organizer of the Artisan-Wordhound Poetry Slam series in Columbia, Missouri, from 2002-2004.