IU School of Liberal Arts

Associate Professor of English

Director of Creative Writing

Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies

Education

B.A. Indiana University 1981

Postbaccalaureate Certificate School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1988

M.A. Cleveland State University 1990

Ph.D Ohio State University 1997

Academic Interests

contemporary American poetry, history of the lyric, working-class poetry, literary translation, and creative writing

Awards

2007 Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum;

2006 Best Book of Indiana Award for Metropolis Burning;

2004-05 Fulbright Research Grant to Warsaw, Poland;

2003 Trustees' Teaching Award;

2003 Creative Renewal Fellowship, Arts Council of Indianapolis;

2002 Glimmer Train Very Short Story Award for "Madrigals for a Bauhaus Baby";

2002 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award, sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, for "Requiem for the Buddhas of Bamiyan";

2001 Chelsea Award for Short Fiction for "Going to Lvov";

1998 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for Beyond the Velvet Curtain.

Publications

Return of the Prodigal (Poetry Atlanta Press 1991), Nixon and I(Kent State University Press 1998), Beyond the Velvet Curtain (Kent State University Press 1999), and Metropolis Burning (Cleveland State, 2005); articles in Women's Studies Quarterly and NWSA Journal; numerous poems and stories in periodicals and anthologies; and translations of Polish poetry

Service

Administration of Rufus and Louise Reiberg Reading Series