Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).
The Winter 2023 issue of Ribbons 19.1 has my tanka poem, “College Reunion” on page 22. Tanka Hangout editor Ken Slaughter chose my poem for his column about tanka on the theme of music. Susan Weaver edits Ribbons, which is the journal of the Tanka…
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The scholarly journal MidAmerica just published Margaret Rozga’s review of my poetry book Nature’s Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021). Margaret Rozga is a professor emeritus of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. MidAmerica focuses on literature of the Midwest, and the editor is Marcia Noe, who…
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Editor-in-Chief Bri Bruce of the literary journal Humana Obscura just published my haiku “May Snowfall” in the spring/summer issue on page 44. This journal features writing and art about nature. I originally wrote this poem in 2003 and have revised…
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