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Selected
Awards & Achievements
First Place, Donald Murray Prize for
chapter from literary non-fiction book called The Land of Forgetting
$1000 grant from the Money For
Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for The Land of Forgetting
Finalist, Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize
for literary Non-Fiction, 2006
Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, 2003
1st Runner-Up, The Iowa Award in Literary
Non-Fiction, Iowa Review, 2003
Finalist, Annie Dillard Award for Creative
Non-Fiction, 2003
Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center,
Johnson, Vermont (for Spring, 2004)
Sarabande Books Kathryn Morton
Poetry Prize Semi-finalist; full-length, first-book competition;
2001
National Public Radio’s Morning Edition “Cops, Kids & Poetry
Unite” commentary and poem, January 2002 Click
here to listen
National Public Radio: Morning Edition Dec. 2000 commentary and poem.
Also: 1st place, Northwest Society for Professional Journalism Award for
1999 NPR (KPLU) commentary and poem. Click
here to listen
Poet/Creator-Faciliator, Crime Prevention Program with Poetry:
Metropolitan Police Force and Youth Offenders; London, England, March
2000. Upcoming program in Port Townsend, WA.
“Millennium Voice,” one of six American women artists featured on
Women Connect; Dec. 1999
Poem in space; “Connecting Cord” launched December 5th 1998 on NASA’s
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite sent to record the birth of stars;
now in space. Click here to listen
Mt. Rainier National Park Centennial Poet, one of several writers chosen
for anniversary; 1999
Lecturer, SITE Santa Fe: “Art and the Written Word”; 1998
Art Critic, THE Magazine of Santa Fe 1992-8; contributor to Art &
Auction; American Craft
Visiting Poet, Willamette University; 1997
University of Alaska Northeast “Explorations” award judged by poet
John Haines; 1997
First Poet-in-Residence, Voyageurs National Park; 1997
Barbara Deming/Money for Women Grant for poetry; 1995
Harvard University Extension's Conway Award for Excellence in the
Teaching of Writing; 1992
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grants for poetry, Somerville; 1986 and
1987
“Waiter” Fellowship; Bread Loaf Writers Conference; 1986
Poet of the Year, New England Association of the Teachers of English; 1982
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Harvard
Magazine, Yale Angler’s Journal, Boston Globe, Christian Science
Monitor, Maine Times; American Craft; Art & Auction, Horizon Airline
Magazine; www.drunkenboat.com
THE Magazine for the Arts; Graven Images: a Journal of Law, Culture and
the Sacred; Willamette Journal of Arts and Humanities; and anthologies by
Simon & Schuster, Orchard Books, and Macmillan Press
SELECTED TEACHING and READING/ PERFORMANCE VENUES
National
Public Radio; Bumbershoot; University of Washington Extension’s Advanced
Poetry Program; Seattle’s Museum of Flight; Harvard University
Extension; Lambeth Crime Prevention Trust, London, UK; Montolieu, France
– Book Village;University of New Mexico; SKYROS in Tobago; Taos Pueblo;
S’Klallam Tribe; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Capulin Volcano,
Voyageurs, and Mt. Rainier National Parks; Willamette University; Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts; San Juan College; Natalie Goldberg’s Ghost
Ranch Retreat; Massachusetts Poet-in-Residence Program; TASIS School,
Surrey, England
EDUCATION
MIDDLEBURY
COLLEGE, BREAD LOAF SCHOOL OF ENGLISH; 1986
M.A., English; with two terms at LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
WILLAMETTE
UNIVERSITY; 1978
B.A., Humanities; with one exchange term at BOWDOIN COLLEGE
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