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CURRICULUM VITAE
B.A. Marlboro College, 1975
M.A. Writing, Johns Hopkins University, 1976
T.E.S.O.L. Certificate, Trinity College, London, 2002
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, VT, 1997-present
Adjunct Faculty, The Writing Seminars, Bennington College,
Bennington, VT, Spring 1996; ADP Program, Vermont College,
Montpelier, VT, Fall 1994
Writer-in-residence, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM, Spring 1994
Assistant Professor, The Writing Program, Washington University,
St. Louis, MO, 1990-93
Writer-in-residence, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 1989-90
Assistant Professor, English Department and Comparative
Literature, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1986-89
Instructor of Creative Writing, Literature, and Composition,
and Co-Director of Expository Writing Program, Marlboro College,
Marlboro, VT, 1983-86
PUBLICATIONS:
Novels: Sweet Water (Knopf, 1998)
Rattlesnake Farming (Knopf, 1992)
A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space (Knopf, 1984)
Short Fiction:
"Seeds of Conflict" in Soldiers and Civilians: Americans at War and
at Home (Bantam Books, 1986)
"A Rose in the Snow" in Love Stories by New Women (Avon Books,
1982)
"Vanishing," Century Magazine, 1982
"On All Fronts," Mississippi Review, 1981
"The Ti-Particle," Bradford, VT Journal-Opinion, 1981
"Of Orchards," Generation Magazine, 1980
"The New Ice Age," Chomo-Uri, 1980
Non-fiction:
“The Chanterelle Crusades,” Northern Woodlands, Summer 2001
"Dr. McElroy, Homeopathist" in Review of Contemporary Fiction,
Winter, 1990
book reviews, New York Times, Boston Herald, Vermont Woodlands
Interview with Georges Borchardt, New Boston Review, 1978
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Freelance editor and copyeditor
Assistant Director, Dolphin Learning Place, Santa Fe, NM, 1993-1995
Principal reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979-82
Second chef, Carpenter Street Restaurant, Norwich, VT, 1982-83
Assistant to Trade Editor, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1976-79 Interview Editor, New Boston Review, Cambridge, MA, 1977-78
GRANTS, AWARDS:
Vermont Arts Council Grant, 1999
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996
Ingram Merrill Grant, 1995
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, 1995
Resident, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, 1992
MacDowell Colony Fellow, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1991
Taft Fellow, University of Cincinnati, 1987, 1989
Vermont Arts Council Grant, 1986
REFERENCES:
Available upon request