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University of Nebraska, M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 2010
UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, 2005-2008
College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, B.A. in Humanities & Theater Arts, 1974
Pushcart Prize nomination; Under the Sun; 2020 &2022;
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Fall 2017
Vermont Studio Center, February 2009, March 2018
Semi-Finalist, River Teeth, 2018
Semi-Finalist, Penelope Niven Non-Fiction Award/Salem Center for Women Writers, 2011
Astra Writing in Greece with Meredith Hall, 2009 & 2010
Squaw Valley Writers, 2006 & 2010
The Ragdale Foundation, November 2009
Auvillar Fellow: Moulin á Nef, France Fall 2009
Tin House Conference with Abigail Thomas, 2007
Georgetown Review Prize, honorable mention, Spring 2006
American Pen Women Prize, honorable mention, 2006
Under the Sun, Spring 2021 & 2020; The Revolution, November 2019; Lumina Magazine, 2018, Superstition Review, 2016; Serving House Journal, 2016; Berkeley Fiction Review, 2016; Sand Hill Review, 2016; Escape, short-short in Only Light Can Do That, Pen Center USA, 2016; My Face in the Darkness, essay in Mothering Through the Darkness, She Writes Press, 2015; Knee Jerk, August 2014; Fiction Fix, Fall, 2014; Chagrin River Review, Fall 2014; Delmarva Review, Fall 2014, New Plains Review; Fall 2014; Work Magazine, July 2011; The Rattling Wall, Spring, 2011; Holding Him Softly, essay in Dream of Things Anthology, Saying Goodbye, 2010; The Mom Egg, Fall 2009 & Spring 2010; Literary Mama, February 2009; Two Hawks Quarterly, November 2008; The Georgetown Review, Spring 2006
Birth Mother, Shebooks, 2014
2011-2012 literacy and writing tutor, Downtown Women’s Center, L.A.
2006-2008 Mentor, Write Girl, Los Angeles
Born November 24, 1952 in Dubuque, Iowa.