CURRICULUM VITAE (ABBREVIATED)
EDUCATION
University of Denver
Ph.D., 1995
English, Creative Writing
Colorado State University
M.F.A., 1989
Creative Writing
Colorado State University
B.A., 1986
English
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Creative Writing (Poetry), Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry, Poetry as a Genre, Postcolonial Literature, Postmodern (Contemporary) World Literature
PRESENT POSITION
2011- Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia
2008- 2011 Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College
2002-2008 Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College
1996-2002 Assistant Professor of English, Berry College
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008- Poetry Editor, Phi Kappa Phi Forum
2007- Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit
2006- Co-founding Editor, Ninebark Press
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books (Authored Poetry)
Still. Persea Books, forthcoming January 14, 2020.
An Ecology of Elsewhere. Persea Books, May 2016.
Road Scatter. Persea Books, September 2012.
Biogeography. Tupelo Press, November 2008. Winner of the 2006 Dorset Prize.
Burn. Elixir Press, January 2005.
Nomadic Foundations. Elixir Press, May 2002.
Book (Edited)
Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad. Rome, Georgia: Ninebark Press, 2007.
Chapbook
The Circumference of Arrival. Minneapolis: Elixir Press, June 2001.
Journals and Anthologies
More than 180 poems published in journals and anthologies, including Agni, American Letters & Commentary, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, Terrain.org, and Witness.
SELECTED HONORS
2017 Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry, for An Ecology of Elsewhere
2017 Peace Corps Writers Award for Poetry, for An Ecology of Elsewhere
2015 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, for “Orycteropus afer (Antbear), Kalahari,” from An Ecology of Elsewhere
2011 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry
2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal, Anthology, for Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poetry Abroad (editor)
2006 Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry, for Burn
2006 Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press) for Biogeography
2003 Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry, for Nomadic Foundations
2003 Peace Corps Writers Award for Poetry, for Nomadic Foundations
MEMBERSHIPS
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
University of Denver
Ph.D., 1995
English, Creative Writing
Colorado State University
M.F.A., 1989
Creative Writing
Colorado State University
B.A., 1986
English
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Creative Writing (Poetry), Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry, Poetry as a Genre, Postcolonial Literature, Postmodern (Contemporary) World Literature
PRESENT POSITION
2011- Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia
2008- 2011 Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College
2002-2008 Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College
1996-2002 Assistant Professor of English, Berry College
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008- Poetry Editor, Phi Kappa Phi Forum
2007- Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit
2006- Co-founding Editor, Ninebark Press
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books (Authored Poetry)
Still. Persea Books, forthcoming January 14, 2020.
An Ecology of Elsewhere. Persea Books, May 2016.
Road Scatter. Persea Books, September 2012.
Biogeography. Tupelo Press, November 2008. Winner of the 2006 Dorset Prize.
Burn. Elixir Press, January 2005.
Nomadic Foundations. Elixir Press, May 2002.
Book (Edited)
Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad. Rome, Georgia: Ninebark Press, 2007.
Chapbook
The Circumference of Arrival. Minneapolis: Elixir Press, June 2001.
Journals and Anthologies
More than 180 poems published in journals and anthologies, including Agni, American Letters & Commentary, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, Terrain.org, and Witness.
SELECTED HONORS
2017 Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry, for An Ecology of Elsewhere
2017 Peace Corps Writers Award for Poetry, for An Ecology of Elsewhere
2015 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, for “Orycteropus afer (Antbear), Kalahari,” from An Ecology of Elsewhere
2011 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry
2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal, Anthology, for Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poetry Abroad (editor)
2006 Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry, for Burn
2006 Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press) for Biogeography
2003 Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry, for Nomadic Foundations
2003 Peace Corps Writers Award for Poetry, for Nomadic Foundations
MEMBERSHIPS
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi