Schools attended for undergrad and grad: Wheaton College, BA in Literature Summer Program at Oxford University University of Louisville, MA in English Sage Graduate Fellow at Cornell University, M.F.A. Years at LHU: 12

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A student of poets A.R. Ammons and Robert Morgan and novelist Sena Naslund, I have published short stories, essays, over 250 poems in literary journals, and six collections of poetry: Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Poetry Award, 1994), Nightrider to Edinburgh (Amelia Long Poem Award, 1986), How to Fit God into a Poem (Painted Bride Chapbook Winner, 1993), Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press, 1997), Body Parts (Anamnesis Press, 1999), and When the Wood Clacks Out Your Name (Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner, 2002). I am the recipient of the 2000 Paumanok Poetry Award, Cornell University’s Chasen Award, a Breadloaf Scholarship, three Pushcart Prize nominations, an Academy of American Poet’s Prize, the Seattle Review’s Bentley Prize for Poetry, and others. I live with my husband Gary (a Lycoming College professor), my daughter Anna Lee (5), and son Will (3) in Williamsport.

HONR112 Composition and Literature

Here’s the intro from the syllabus: “In this class, we will be concentrating on how to become better readers and critics of fiction, poetry, and drama.” In short, though, my goal is to get you to love literature as much as I do! The class focuses on in-depth discussion and literary analysis of both classic and contemporary texts.

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