Education

Columbia University, New York, School of the Arts, Creative Writing, MFA.

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Graduate Studies

in Slavic Languages and English.

Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland,

Graduate Studies in Polish and Folklore.

University of Illinois, Chicago, English, MA.

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Religion, BA.

Teaching Experience

Owens Community College, Toledo, OH, Assistant Professor of

Communications/Humanities, 1994--present.

Walters State Community College, Sevierville, TN, Assistant Professor

Developmental Writing and Reading, 1993-94.

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Instructor of English, 1981-92

University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Lecturer in Humanities, 1987-1991

Community College of Philadelphia, Instructor of English, 1981-89

Pennsylvania Governors School of the Arts, Fiction Writing Workshop, 1986.

Grants and Awards

Ohio Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship for Poetry, 2001, 1998.

Midwestern Playwrights Award, third place, 1996.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship for Poetry, 1991

. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship for Playwiting, 1988.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship for Poetry, 1983.

Kosciuszko Foundation, Grant to Study at Jagiellonian University, Krakow,

Poland, 1981, 1978-79.

Polish Ministry of Higher Education, Grant to Attend Jagiellonian University, 1980.

Sows Ear Poetry Review,Contest First Prize, 1990.

New Millennium Review, Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1996.

Painted Bride Review, Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1997.

Publications

Orphics, Kent State Press, 2003

Sapphos Apples, HarrowGate Press, 2000.

The Centralia Mine Fire, Flume Press, 1987.

Tryst: From the Life and Death of Chopin, Lalka Press, 1978.

(Publication of poetry, prose, and translations in the following literary journals)

American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, West Branch,

Quarterly West, New Letters, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sows Ear Review, Lullwater

Review, New Millennium Review, Artful Dodge, Chronicle of Higher Education, Poetry

Review of the Poetry Society of America, Whirligig, Commonweal, Pavement,

The Polish Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Calliope, Mr. Cogito,

The Ledge, Webster Review, Paterson Literary Review, Octavo (electronic

Journal),Tinturn Abbey (electronic journal), Snakeskin (electronic journal), Eye Dialect

(electronic journal)

(Anthologies)

Odd Angles of Heaven, ed. David Craig, Wadsworth Press.

East European Poetry, ed. Emery George, Oxford University Press.

Blood of Their Blood: An Anthology of Polish-American Poetry, New Rivers Press.

Exhibitions and Performance

Mythos: Rites Left Under the El, collaboration with printmaker Mania Dajnak,

Silk Screen Monoprints and Text, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1992.

Script-in-Hand Reading, Kuliks Tap, Drama, University of Toledo, 1996

Writers Manuscripts from Disciplinary Winners of the Pew Memorial Fellowship,

Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1994.

Halka, Polish Opera by Moniuszko, original choreograpy, 1992.

Janosik Polish Dance Ensemble, Philadelphia, PA, Assistant Director, Choreographer,

and Soloist, 1975-92.

Krakus Ensemble of the Polish Academy of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), Krakow,

Poland, 1978-79, 1981, 1985-86.

Other

Associate Editor, Artful Dodge