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).
Elizabeth Rynecki, a writer and film director, has posted an interview with me on her website at https://www.authorsanswer.com/interviews/qsqmku1w20fqepzaxqdujdx2lvs0dv The interview mentions my work with the Ladies’ Library Association of Kalamazoo.
Editor Melissa F. Kaelin, who serves as Communication Manager at Michigan State University, has published my elegy poem “Honoring Dad” for her anthology entitled the Social Gap Experiment. The book is available from Amazon and was published in December, 2020….
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The journal Bear Creek Haiku has published four of my haiku in its August 2020 issue. The editor is Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, assisted by people and two cats. I have been revising many of my haiku to shorten them, and…
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