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	EDUCATION

	University of California, Santa Barbara	Ph.D/English
	University of California, Santa Barbara	MA/English
	University of California, Santa Cruz	BA/English
		(minor in Spanish)

	PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	Professor, English, Allegheny College, March 2009 - present
	Associate Professor, English, Allegheny College, January 1999 - present
	Assistant Professor, English, Allegheny College, September 1995 - December 1999
	Assistant Professor, English, Whittier College, September 1991 - June 1995
	Teaching Assistant, English, UC Santa Barbara, September 1985 - June 1991

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	PUBLICATIONS

	Books:

	Alphabet of the World: Selected Works by Eugenio Montejo, translations, University
	of Oklahoma Press, 2010 (forthcoming).
	Saint X, poems, Lewis Clark Press, 2010 (forthcoming).
	Mr. Agreeable, short stories, Mammoth Press, 2009.
	Paradise Road, short stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
	The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study, Ohio University Press, 1995.

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	Fiction:

	*Anthologies/Reprints:*

	"Still Life With Candles and Spanish Guitar," in The Mysterious Life of the Heart, Sy Safransky,
	editor, Sun Publishing, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.
	"Nicaragua," in Short Prose for Critical Readers, James Stevens, editor, Kendall/Hunt
	Publishing, 2007.
	"The Dead Know Too Much," in Chautauqua, Summer 2008.
	"Crossroad," in New Sudden Fiction, Robert Shapard and James Thomas, editors,
	W.W. Norton, 2007.
	"Nicaragua," in Flash Fiction Forward, Robert Shapard and James Thomas, editors,
	W.W. Norton, 2006.
	"Mr. Agreeable" in PP/FF: An Anthology, Starcherone Books, Peter Conners, editor,,
	2006.
	"Mr. Destitute," in Along the Lake: Contemporary Writing from Erie, Sean Thomas
	Dougherty, editor, June 2005.
	"Mr. Agreeable," in Shadow: Searching for the Hidden Self, NY: Tarcher/Putnam, 2004.
	"Believing in People," in Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2005, Anne Bowling,
	editor. Cinncinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2004.
	"Nicaragua," in Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fictions, Mammoth
	Press, Dubois, PA, 2003.
	"Ladybug Inn," in Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fictions,
	Mammoth Press, Dubois, PA, 2003.
	"Mr. Agreeable," Jack Spade, Issue 1/1, New York, January 2001.
	"Mr. Destitute," Showcase, Volume 2/Issue 1, Jamestown, New York,
	December 2000.
	"Mr. Agreeable," Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII, Wainscott, New York,
	Pushcart Press, 1999.

	*Journals/Magazines:*

	"Family,"Drunken Boat, Spring 2011 (forthcoming).
	"Wishing Well," Story Quarterly, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Honey," New England Review, Spring 2010.
	"Adult Swim," Boulevard, Fall 2008.
	"Good is All You Know How to Be," Another Chicago Magazine, Spring 2008.
	"Alum Notes: Class of '84," Boulevard, Fall 2007.
	"The Painter's Wife," The Kenyon Review, Fall 2007.
	"The Dead Know Too Much," Apalachee Review, Spring 2007.
	"Still Life With Candles and Spanish Guitar," The Sun, February 2006.
	"Somebody Decent," St. Anne's Review, Summer 2003.
	"Let Me Finish," Vestal Review, Summer 2003.
	"Nicaragua," Fiction, Winter 2002.
	"The Shape of the Beach," Witness, Winter 2000.
	"Deal, Said the Angel," Witness, Winter 2000.
	"The Cage," Storyquarterly, Fall 1999.
	"Heartland," Fiction, Fall 1999.
	"It Me," New Letters, Fall 1999.
	"Mr. Destitute," New England Review, Spring 1999.
	"Harvest the Wind," North American Review, March/April 1999.
	"Hot Water," Hawai'i Review, Fall/Winter 1998.
	"Poet and Philosopher," The Paris Review, Summer 1998.
	"Be With Somebody," Gettysburg Review, Spring 1998.
	"Behind the Wheel," South Carolina Review, Summer 1997.
	"Believing in People," Western Humanities Review, Summer 1997.
	"Crossroad," High Plains Literary Review, Fall 1997.
	"Mr. Agreeable," Fiction, Spring 1997.
	"Timing," Nebraska Review, Fall/Winter 1997.
	"Snakes Having Babies," Indiana Review, Fall 1996.
	"Paradise Road," Tampa Review, Fall/Winter 1996.
	"The Noise That Wants To Be Joy," Witness, Spring 1996.
	"Paging Barry Badly," Witness, Spring 1996.
	"Remember the Dead and the Dying," Karamu, Spring 1995.
	"The Highway," ZYZZYva, Winter 1994.
	"Garlic," Potomac Review, Fall 1994.
	"I Want You to Kill Me," Chattahoochee Review, Summer 1994.
	"Scream," Witness, Winter/Spring 1994.
	"Mr. Erotic," Witness, Winter/Spring 1994.
	"Mr. Excitement," Fiction, Spring 1994.
	"Mr. Casual," The Oregon Review, Fall/Winter 1993.
	"Legally Dead," The Oregon Review, Fall/Winter 1993.
	"Record Shop Girl," Tampa Review, Fall 1993.
	"Cells of the Empire," Hawai'i Review, Spring 1993.
	"Paradise for Sheep," Widener Review, Fall 1993.
	"Postcards from Cal," High Plains Literary Review, Winter 1992.
	"Shallow Water," Hayden's Ferry Review, Winter 1992.
	"Salvage," Sycamore Review, Winter 1991.
	"When the Earthquake Came," Fiction, Winter 1990.
	"Together for a While," Descant, Spring/Summer 1990.
	"Awaken the Dragon," Permafrost, Spring/Summer 1990 .
	"Northern Light," The Seattle Review, Spring/Summer 1990.
	"Bitter Acorns, Fallen Seed," South Dakota Review, Autumn 1989.
	"Penalty," Onionhead Quarterly, Summer 1989.
	"Bacteria," Pacific Review, Spring 1989.
	"Close Quarters," Friday Magazine, Spring 1987.

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	Poetry:

	*Anthologies/Reprints:*

	"Sensitive Cargo," in Pennsylvania Seasons, Jeffrey Gainey, editor, University of
	Scranton Press, 2008.
	"Bullet Shell Heart," in Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Majorie
	Maddox and Jerry Wemple, editors. University Park: Penn State Press, 2005.
	"School Bus," in What's Become of Eden: Poems of Family at Century's End,
	Tarrytown, NY: Slapering Hol Press, 1995.

	*Journals/Magazines:*

	"Shrine," The Gettysburg Review, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Hum," The Gettysburg Review, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Orchid," Hotel Amerika, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Create," Hotel Amerika, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Forecast," Boulevard, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Afternoon," St. Anne's Review, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"How Deep is the River," Agni, Spring 2010.
	"Hum," BOMB, Spring 2010 (online).
	"Thaw," Ascent, Fall 2009.
	"Island," New American Writing, Spring 2009.
	"Safety," New American Writing, Spring 2009.
	"How to Kiss Her," Southern Review, Spring 2009.
	"The Boar and Salt Water," American Poetry Review, Fall 2008.
	"Koan," Field, Fall 2007.
	"unveiled," Field, Fall 2007.
	"Affair-Proof Your Marriage: A Manual," New Ohio Review, Summer 2007.
	"Mr. Transcendent," Cincinnati Review, Summer 2007.
	"Thing," Gulf Coast, Summer 2006.
	"Sensitive Cargo," Raritan, Winter 2006.
	"Apology," Raritan, Winter 2006.
	"Stare," New England Review, Winter 2005.
	"Catastrophe Road, " New England Review, Winter 2005.
	"Contingency," Mid-American Review, Spring 2002.
	"Sequestered at Last on His Mountain, Merton Stares Past the Pines at the Rain,"
	Ascent, Winter 2001.
	"Your Own Master," Ploughshares, Winter 2000-01.
	"Platinum Plus," Ploughshares, Winter 2000-01.
	"Dance With Dave," River Styx, Winter 2000-01.
	"Delirium," Green Mountains Review, Fall-Winter 2000-01.
	"Bullet Shell Heart," Green Mountains Review, Fall-Winter 2000-01.
	"Seven Essentials of Millennial People," Raritan, Spring 2000.
	"Not Walter Pater," Iowa Review, Fall 1999.
	"The Other Son," Free Lunch, Fall 1999.
	"Oh, Strikemaster!" Spoon River Poetry Review, Fall 1999.
	"I Hate to Hurt You," Quarterly West, Autumn/Winter 1999/2000.
	"Influence," Seattle Review, Fall 1999.
	"Style," Chelsea, Summer 1999.
	"Willing to Be," Chelsea, Summer 1999.
	"The Churchyard in Stratford With Kate," Poet Lore, Spring 1999.
	"Poison," Poet Lore, Spring 1999.
	"One River Blends With Another," Poet Lore, Spring 1999.
	"Time on the Down of Plenty," Ploughshares, Winter 1998.
	"Dance With Dave in Dave's Head," Phoebe, Fall 1998.
	"Dance With Dave Meets Madame Salvation," Phoebe, Fall 1998.
	"Dance With Dave," Folio, Spring 1998.
	"Goat's Stomach," Spoon River Poetry Review, Spring 1998.
	"Backsliding," Spoon River Poetry Review, Spring 1998.
	"No Love at the Beach," Spoon River Poetry Review, Spring 1998.
	"Mr. Ecstatic," Nimrod, Fall 1998.
	"To the Generous Anonymous Person Who Returned My valise, Snatched
	From a Bench Near the Library," Nimrod, Fall 1998.
	"Saint X," Prarie Schooner, Spring 1998.
	"I Will, I Will Not," Boston Review, February/March 1998.
	"Vultures," Seattle Review, Fall 1997.
	"Wrong Number," Mudfish, Fall 1997.
	"ultimate Sign," Laurel Review, Summer 1997.
	"Archile Gorky at Forty," William and Mary Review, Spring 1997.
	"Some of the Most Striking Women I Have Known Have Been Men," Antioch Review,
	Fall 1996.
	"Propinquity," Slant, Summer 1996.
	"Burn" (published anonymously), Free Lunch, Fall 1996.
	"Integrity," The Plum Review, Fall 1996.
	"The Collapse of the Heart is a Myth," Writer's Forum, Fall 1996.
	"France In Tahiti," Poet Lore, Winter 1995-96.
	"Thorn," Poet Lore, Winter 1995-96.
	"Jeremiad," Poet Lore, Winter 1995-96.
	"The No-Theory Theory," Phoebe, Winter/Summer 1996.
	"The Free Europeans," Green Mountains Review, Spring/Summer 1996.
	"Mr. Ironic," Cimarron Review, January 1996.
	"The House With No Glass and No Curtains," Cimarron Review, January 1996.
	"Regarding My Grandfather's Funeral, Which I Did Not Attend," Worcester Review,
	Fall 1995.
	"Days Before Scanners," Anthology of New England Writers, 1996.
	"Love Song," Descant, Fall 1995.
	"The Stinging and Saving," New Orleans Review, Summer 1995.
	"Invective," Black River Review, Fall 1995.
	"The End of the World is Los Angeles," The Ohio Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1995.
	"Painting the Rain," The Ohio Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1995.
	"School Bus," in What's Become of Eden: Poems of Family at Century's End
	(Tarrytown, NY: Slapering Hol Press, 1995).

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	Translations:

	*Anthologies/Reprints:*

	(prose):

	"Counterfeit" (story by Edmundo Paz Soldan), in Sudden Fiction Latino, Robert Shapard and
	James Thomas, editors, W.W. Norton, 2010.

	(poems):

	"Winter Trees Cough Like Old Men" (poem by Eugenio Montejo): in Poetry Daily, November 3, 2008.
	"The Other" (poem by Eugenio Montejo): in Poetry Daily, May 3, 2008.

	*Journals/Magazines:*

	(poems by Eugenio Montejo):

	"A Bird's Terredad," Potomac Review, Spring 2011 (forthcoming).
	"A Year," Arroyo, Spring 2010.
	"Hamlet's Hour," Arroyo, Spring 2010.
	"In Paradise," Southern Humanities Review, Fall 2009.
	"Here Again," Poetry International, Fall 2009.
	"Way Off in the 20th Century," American Letters & Commentary, Spring 2009.
	"The Last Rooster," American Letters & Commentary, Spring 2009.
	"The Grammar of Absence," American Letters & Commentary, 2009.
	"Poetry," The Christian Science Monitor, March 12, 2009.
	"In Forests of My Ancient Home," Raritan, Spring 2009.
	"Speak and unspeak," Raritan, Spring 2009.
	"El Dorado," Raritan, Spring 2009.
	"In the Time That Remains," Raritan, Spring 2009.
	"She Who Sleeps," ABZ Magazine, Spring 2009.
	"Winter Trees Cough Like Old Men," The Paris Review, Fall 2008.
	"Snow," Rhino, Spring 2008.
	"House," Conduit, Spring 2008.
	"Vintage Erotica," Conduit, Spring 2008.
	"Another Millenium," Cimarron Review, Spring 2008.
	"The Other," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
	"Beyond Time," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
	"Elegy on the Death of My Brother Richard," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
	"Hamlet, Act One," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
	"My Father Returns and Sleeps," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
	"My Country in an Ancient Map," VERSE, February 22, 2007 (online).
	"On the Eve of Embarking," LIT, Spring 2007.
	"Avenue Duque de Loulé," LIT, Spring 2007.
	"Door," Good Foot, Fall 2007.
	"End of Rain," South Carolina Review, Spring 2007.
	"Men Without Snow," Apalachee Review, Spring 2007.
	"Another Rain," Meridian, Spring 2007.
	"Song," Meridian, Spring 2007.
	"Letra Profunda," Chelsea, Winter 2006/07.
	"If My Statue Awakened," Spoon River Poetry Review, Winter 2006/07.
	"Song Heard at Midnight," Cider Press Review, Winter 2006.
	"Love Isn't Ours," Cider Press Review, Fall 2006.
	"Last Bird," Salt Hill, Winter 2006/07.
	"Here on Earth," Salt Hill, Winter 2006/07.
	"Delivery Room," California Quarterly, Fall 2006.
	"Coming Back," California Quarterly, Fall 2006.
	"Magic Life," Green Mountains Review, Summer 2006.
	"Distant," New American Writing, May/June 2006.
	"Midnight," New American Writing, May/June 2006.
	"The Mill," The Kenyon Review, Summer 2006.
	"My Lantern," Crazyhorse, Spring 2006
	"If I Return Again," Crazyhorse, Spring 2006.
	"On This Street" Carolina Quarterly, Spring 2006.
	"Honor the Ass," Agni, Spring 2006 (online).
	"Toad," Poetry International, Spring 2006.
	"Letters," Poetry International, Spring 2006.
	"White Axe," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
	"Waking up," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
	"Stars," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
	"Here," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
	"I Believe," Mid-American Review, Fall 2005.
	"Duration," Mid-American Review, Fall 2005).
	"Writing," Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 2005.
	"September," The Southern Review, Spring 2005.
	"The Birds Have Shut up on Purpose," The Southern Review, Spring 2005.
	"Alphabet of the World," New England Review, Summer 2004.
	"Written in Passing," New England Review, Summer 2004.

	*PROSE:*

	"Vignettes from the City," story by Luisa Valenzuela, Potomac Review, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Dear Cat of Our Days," story by Luisa Valenzuela, Potomac Review, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Hotel Room," story by Juan Jose Saer, Fiction, Fall 2010 (forthcoming).

	(prose by Eugenio Montejo):

	"The White Workshop," Arroyo, Spring 2010.
	"Guitar of the Horizon," Denver Quarterly, Fall 2009.
	"The Notebook of Blas Coll," The Southern Review, Fall 2008.

	Nonfiction:

	*Anthologies/Reprints:*

	"Insularity and Enlargement in 'Cathedral,'" in Cathedral: The Wadsworth Casebook
	Series in Reading, Research, and Writing, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, series
	editors, Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 2003.
	"Narration and Interiority in 'Where I'm Calling From,'" in Raymond Carver, ed. Harold Bloom,
	Chelsea House, Broomall, PA, 2002.

	*Essays/Reviews:*

	"Alphabet of the World: An Interview with Kirk Nesset on Tranlating Eugenio Montejo,"
	AWP Writer's Chronicle, September 2010 (forthcoming).
	"Introduction," New Paths to Raymond Carver, ed. Robert Miltner and Sandra Kleppe,
	University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
	"Celluoid Indians: Native Americans and Film" (review), Film Criticism,
	Winter 2001-02.
	"American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue With Culture" (review),
	American Literature, September 2001.
	"Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History in Contemporary American Poetry"
	(review), American Literature, December 1998.
	"Gates to Buddhist Practice" (review), Mountain Record, Spring 1995.
	"Insularity and Self-Enlargement in Raymond Carver's Cathedral,"
	Essays in Literature, Spring 1994.
	"The Final Stitch: Raymond Carver and Metaphor," Profils Americains (Paris),
	Summer 1993.
	"Reading Raymond Carver" (review), American Literature, June 1993.
	" 'This Word Love': Sexual Politics and Silence in Early Raymond Carver," American
	Literature, June 1991.

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	Music Reviews/Interviews:

	Anthologies/Reprints:

	"Sing While You May: An Interview with Edward Ka-Spel from Legendary Pink Dots," The
	Sentimentalist, December 2004.
	"In the Garden" (review), Beneath the Icy Floe, Issue 1/1, Spring 2003.
	"Audra: An Interview with Bret Helm," Gothic Beauty, Issue 8, January 2003.

	*Journals/Magazines:*

	"Sing While You May: An Interview with Edward Ka-Spel from Legendary Pink Dots"
	Gothic Beauty, Fall 2004.
	Legendary Pink Dots, "The Whispering Wall" (review), The Sentimentalist, Summer 2004.
	Collide, "Some Kind of Strange" (review), The Sentimentalist, Summer 2003.
	various Artists, "Noir" (review), The Sentimentalist, Spring 2003.
	Mission uK, "Aura" (review), The Sentimentalist, Winter 2002.
	Fields of the Nephilim, "Fallen" (review), The Sentimentalist, Winter 2002.
	"An Interview with Alison Shaw of The Cranes," Legends Magazine, October
	2002.
	"Audra: An Interview with Bret Helm," Delirium, October 2002.
	Holy Cow, "Purge" (review), Alternative-Zine, September 2002.
	Audra, "Going to the Theatre" (review), Delirium, September 2002.
	"The Secret of Movement is Never to Stop: An Interview with Peter Murphy,"
	Gothic Beauty, Issue 6, July 2002.
	Funhouse, "Oceans of Tears" (review), The Sentimentalist, Spring 2002.
	The Shroud, "In The Garden" (review), The Sentimentalist, Spring 2002.
	Judith, "Play of Light" (review), The Sentimentalist, Winter 2001/2002.

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	PRESENTATIONS

	"Working Within," Chautauqua Writers' Center Lecture, Chautauqua, NY, July 7, 2010
	(forthcoming).
	"Writing and Living," Panel Presentation, Chautauqua Literary Arts Center, Chautauqua, NY,
	July 21, 2008.
	"A Sudden Flash," Chautauqua Writers' Center Lecture, Chautauqua, NY, July 20,
	2007.
	"Nature, Longing and Transnational Ecological Discourse: Translating Eugenio Montejo,"
	Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, April 14, 2005.
	"Man on a Bridge," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference, vancouver, BC, April 2, 2005.
	"Forever Impossible and Forever Necessary: New News From the Front in Translating Poetry,"
	Chautauqua Writers' Center Lecture, Chautauqua, NY, August 20, 2004.
	"Writing, Nature and Surrender," Panel Presentation, AWP Conference,
	Kansas City, MO, March 31, 2000.
	"Art at All Costs," Chautauqua Writers' Center Lecture, Chautauqua, NY,
	July 12, 1999.
	"Zen Insight," Meditation House, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, April 29, 1999.
	"A Novel Idea: From the Inside," Meadville Women's Literary Club, Meadville,
	PA, April 23, 1999.
	"Student Anthology Chapter Introductions," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference,
	Albany, NY, April 17, 1999.
	"The Name's the Game: A Character Spur," Chautauqua Writers' Day,
	Chautauqua Writers Center, Chautauqua, NY, July 19, 1998.
	"Character and Short Fiction," UC Santa Barbara, March 12, 1998.
	"Burying, unburying: Pedogogies of Conflict in Creative Writing and Literature,"
	San Jose State University, February 6, 1998.
	"Dogen and Zen Practice," Meditation House, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA,
	April 22, 1997.
	"Transorientation and Gay Fiction," Panel Presentation, Gay and Lesbian
	Literature Conference, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, April 12, 1997.
	"Song as Story, Story as Song," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference,
	Washington DC, April 3, 1997.
	"Zen Meditation," Meditation House, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, October
	15, 1996.
	"Hemmed In and Closed Out: Raymond Carver's 'Boxes'," UC Santa Barbara,
	Santa Barbara, CA, July 8, 1996.
	"Meditation and Creative Writing," Panel Presentation, AWP Conference,
	Atlanta, GA, April 11, 1996.
	"Artful Student Presentations," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference, Pittsburgh, PA,
	April 9, 1995.
	"Raymond Carver and Metaphor," Carver In Carver Country Literary Conference, Port
	Angeles, WA, May 25, 1990.

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	AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
	Poet-in-Residence, Black Forest Writing Seminars, Freiburg, Germany, July 26-Aug 2, 2010)
	(forthcoming).
	Fiction W riter-in-Residence, Chautauqua Literaray Center, Chautauqua, NY, July 3-10, 2010,
	(forthcoming).
	Fiction Writer in Residence, Ligonier Valley Writer's Conference, Ligonier, PA, July 18, 2009.
	Pushcart Prize Nomination, Fiction in Translation, 2009.
	Paradise Road selected as finalist for Binghampton University's 2008 John Gardner Fiction
	Award, judged by Vivian Shipley.
	Poet-in-Residence, Creating Landscapes Teacher's Intensive, Meadville, PA, June 23-25,
	2008.
	Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 2007.
	Pushcart Prize Nomination, Fiction, 2007.
	Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, July, 2007.
	Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, June/July, 2004.
	Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, July, 2001.
	Distinguished Guest Lecturer on American Literature/Raymond Carver,
	Bundesbank Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2001.
	Pushcart Prize Nomination, Poetry, 2001.
	Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, Category of Fiction, 1999 ($5000).
	Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, July, 1999.
	Pushcart Prize in Fiction, 1999.
	Resident, Vermont Studio Center, June-July, 1993.
	Scholar, Writer's at Work Conference, Park City, utah, June 1990.
	Distinction, awarded at passing of Ph.D oral exam, Summer 1989.

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	SELECTED READINGS

	University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2011 (date TBA).
	Allegheny College, Single Voice Series, Meadville, PA, Spring 2011 (date TBA).
	University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, Johnstown, PA, November 11, 2010.
	SUNY Brockport, Brockport, PA, Fall 2010 (date TBA).
	Pitt Writer's Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA, September 10, 2010 (forthcoming).
	Chautauqua Literary Center, Chautauqua, NY, July 4, 2010 (forthcoming).
	The New Yinzer Presents, Pittsburgh, PA, May 19, 2010.
	Panera (for AWP), Denver, CO, April 9, 2010.
	SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, April 1, 2010.
	Elmira College, Elmira, NY, March 31, 2010.
	Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, March 10, 2010.
	Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, March 9, 2010.
	Townson University, Townson, MD, March 8, 2010.
	High Point University, High Point, NC, March 3, 2010.
	University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, March 2, 2010.
	Lock Haven University, Townson, MD, February 24, 2010.
	Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ, February 9, 2010.
	Market House, Meadville, PA, October 24. 2009.
	Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, October 20. 2009.
	St. Francis University, Loretto, PA, April 2, 2009.
	Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA, February 19, 2009.
	AWP Conference, Chicago, IL, February 12, 2009.
	Whittier College, Whittier, CA, November 11, 2008.
	University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, November 12, 2008.
	University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, November 13, 2008.
	California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, November 5, 2008.
	union Project Reading, Pittsburgh, PA, May 9, 2008.
	Washington and Jefferson University, Wahington, PA, May 1, 2008.
	Layfayette College, Easton, PA, April 17, 2008.
	Clarion University, Clarion, PA, April 2, 2008.
	Most Wanted Gallery (Potluck Series), Pittsburgh, PA, February 22, 2008.
	Marshall University, Huntington, WV, February 21, 2008.
	Single Voice Reading, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, February 7, 2008.
	Standard Pacific, Brooklyn, NY, February 1, 2008.
	Strega Cafe (Brock University), St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada, January 10, 2008.
	Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, December 6, 2007.
	Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 3, 2007.
	Kent State University (Stark), Canton, OH, November 29, 2007.
	Prosody, WYEP FM, Pittsburgh PA, November 13, 2007.
	Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, November 7, 2007.
	Alfred State College, Alfred, NY, November 1, 2007.
	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17, 2007.
	Glenville State College, Glenville, WV, October 16, 2007.
	Te Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA, October 11, 2007.
	Tattered Corners Books, Meadville, PA, September 29, 2007.
	Chautauqua Writers' Center, Chautauqua, NY, July 15, 2007.
	Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, March 12, 2006.
	The Ritz (hosted by Starcherone Books/AWP), Austin, TX, March 11, 2006.
	The Coffee Den (hosted by Paper St. Press), Mt. Lebanon, PA, August 4, 2005.
	Erie Book Store, Erie, PA, May 28, 2005.
	Chautauqua Writers' Conter, Chautauqua, NY, August 15, 2004.
	Gist Street Readings, Pittsburgh, PA, August 6, 2004.
	Single Voice Reading, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, November 20, 2003.
	Carlito's Gallery, Lexington Ave, NY, NY, October 13, 2003.
	Ear Inn, Spring St, NY, NY, October 11, 2003.
	Gist Street Readings, Pittsburgh, PA, July 19, 2003.
	Penn State University Dubois, Dubois, PA, April 18, 2003.
	City College of New York, NY, NY, March 20, 2003.
	University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 23, 2002.
	Chautauqua Writers' Conter, Chautauqua, NY, July 3, 2001.
	SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, November 1, 1999.
	Grounds for Change Coffeehouse, Allegheny College, April 2, 1999.
	Blue Planet Cafe, Meadville, PA, March 6, 1999.
	Cafe Ole, Edinboro, PA, April 29, 1998.
	UC Santa Barbara, Studio A, Santa Barbara, CA, March 12, 1998.
	West Chester University, West Chester, PA, February 26, 1998.
	Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, February 13, 1998.
	Blue Planet Cafe, Market House, Meadville, PA, October 11, 1997.
	Single Voice Reading, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, March 12, 1997.
	University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 21, 1997.
	Cafe Ole, Edinboro, PA, December 11, 1996.
	Blue Agave, Santa Barbara, CA, July 9, 1996.
	Barnes and Noble Books, Erie, PA, December 12, 1995.
	Blue Planet Cafe, Market House, Meadville, PA, November 11, 1995.
	Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, February 18, 1995.
	The Colloquy, Beverly Hills, CA, September 14, 1994.
	Living Planet, Long Beach, CA, August 15, 1994.
	Whittier College, Faculty Forum/Community Reading, April 21, 1994.
	KCSB FM (Writer's Gallery Radio), Santa Barbara, February 3, 1994.
	L. A. valley College, Burbank, CA, November 15, 1993.
	Gaga Coffeehouse, Long Beach, CA, August 12, 1993.
	KCSB FM (Writer's Gallery Radio), Santa Barbara, July 25, 1993.
	Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, July 8, 1993.
	L. A. valley College, Burbank, CA, April 25, 1993.
	Sidestreet Cafe, Santa Inez, CA, January 20, 1993.
	L. A. valley College, Burbank, CA, November 17, 1992.
	KWQR FM, Whittier, September 20, 1992.
	The Book Stop, Whittier, September 12, 1992.
	Gaga Coffeehouse, Long Beach, CA, September 9, 1992.
	KCSB FM, Santa Barbara, CA May 21, 1992; January 8, 1990; March 16, 1991.

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	OTHER ACTIVITIES

	Judge, Great Lakes Corsortium for the Arts, fiction book competition, uSA, 2009.
	Preliminary Judge, Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009.
	Judge, Chautauqua Literary Center, annual fiction competition, Chautauqua, PA, 2009.
	Judge, California State University East Bay, annual fiction competition, Fremont, CA, April, 2009.
	External Reviewer, St. Lawrence University, English Department, Canton, NY, January, 2009.
	Judge, Lafayette College, annual poetry competition, Easton, PA, April, 2008.
	Coordinator, Single Voice Reading Series, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 2007 - 2008.
	Judge, Poetry Out Loud, annual competition, Meadville, PA, February 17, 2007.
	Editorial Advisor, Overkill, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 2007 - present.
	Fiction Judge, Fiction (NY), annual competition, summer 2003.
	Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter, unkle John's Band, Meadville, PA, 2002 - present.
	Workshop leader/Instructor, Arts Immersion Program (10 weeks), Allegheny College,
	Meadville, PA, 1998 - present.
	Workshop leader/Instructor, Creating Landscapes Program (2 weeks), July 2002, July 2003,
	July 2004, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.
	Coordinator, Single Voice Reading Series, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1996 - 2001.
	Fiction Judge, Arts Council of Chautauqua County, annual "Artfacts" Competition, 1999.
	Coordinator, Cafe Ole Reading Series, Edinboro, PA, 1996-98
	Advisor, Allegheny College Writer's House, Meadville, PA, 1996 - 2001.
	Editorial Advisor, Golem, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1996 - 2006.
	Editorial Advisor, Allegheny Review, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1996-99.
	Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter, Cousin Stanley, Meadville, PA, 1996-99.
	Radio Show DJ, "Black Planet," WARC FM, Allegheny College, Spring 1996 - present.
	Advisor, Allegheny College Martial Arts Club, Meadville, PA, 1995-98.
	Editorial Advisor, Literary Review, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, 1991-95.
	Chair, Religious Life Committee, Whittier College, Whittier College, 1993-95.
	Editorial Advisor, untitled, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, 1992-95.
	Editorial Advisor, Praxis, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, 1991-92.
	Fiction Competition Judge, Dept of English, UC Santa Barbara, 1987-91.
	Radio Show Host, "Writer's Gallery," KCSB FM, UC Santa Barbara, 1987-91.
	Co-editor, Doublespeak, Stevenson College, uc Santa Cruz, 1983-4.

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	CLASSES TAUGHT

	Fiction Writing (Beginning and Advanced), Poetry Writing, Travel Writing, American Indian Lit, 20th Century American Lit, American Fiction After 1917, The Postmodern Novel, Forms of Poetry, Twentieth Century Poetry, Science Fiction, The Short Story, Literature on Film, Introduction to Lit, Approaches to Literature, Senior Project Seminar, Reading Literature, Sophomore Writing, Freshman Writing (beginning, intermediate, advanced).

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	REFERENCES

	Christopher Bakken English/Allegheny College/Meadville, PA 16335/(814) 332-4338
	David Miller English/Allegheny College/Meadville, PA 16335/(814) 332-4323
	Christopher Buckley Creative Writing/uc Riverside/Riverside, CA 92507/(805) 733-5093
	Barry Spacks English/University of California/Santa Barbara, CA 93106/(805) 966-9951
	Diana Hume George English/Penn State University, Erie/Erie, PA 16563/(814) 336-9046
	Tess Gallagher 61 Vista Lane/Port Angeles, WA 98362/(206) 457-6303
	Steven Allaback English/University of California/Santa Barbara, CA 93106/(805) 893-4008

Complete dossier available at
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