TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Since 1981, courses and workshops developed and taught include: Beginning and Advanced Poetry; Writing the Memoir; Creative Nonfiction; The Poetic Prose of Memoir; The Music of Poetry; Poems for the Planet, Political Poetry; The Rhythms of Writing; Landscape and Memory, Your Memoir and Its Characters, The Queer I: GLBT Writing, Writing the Body, and other multi-genre classes.

Writers’ Conferences, Workshops, and M.F.A. Programs (faculty member or visiting writer)
Almassera Vella Arts Center, Spain
Antioch West, MFA Progam, California
Arizona State University
The Arvon Foundation, UK
Ashland Writers’ Conference, Oregon
Caldera Arts Retreat, Oregon
Eastern Oregon University MFA Program
Exeter & Devon Center for the Arts, UK
Fields End Writers’ Community, Washington
Fishtrap Summer Writers’ Conference, Oregon
The Flight of the Mind, Oregon
Gemini Ink Literary Center, Texas
Gig Harbor Writers’ Conference, Washington
Hassayampa Writers’ Conference, Arizona
Haystack Summer Program in the Arts, Portland State University, Oregon
Hugo House, Washington
Indian King Arts Center, UK
International Women’s Studies Institute, Molyvos, Greece
Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, University of Alaska
Lane Literary Guild, Oregon
Lewis and Clark College, Oregon
London Poetry School, UK
Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon
Marylhurst University, Oregon
Mendocino Writers Conference, California
Mountain Writers’ Center, Oregon
The Nature of Words Conference, Oregon
Northwest Writing Institute, Lewis & Clark College, Oregon
Oregon Poetry Festival
Poetry at Round Top, Texas
The Poetry School, UK
Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Washington
Portland State University, Center for Excellence in Writing, Oregon
Reed College, Oregon
San Miguel Writers’ Conference, Mexico
Silverton Poetry Festival, Oregon
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Oregon
Society of Southwestern Authors, Arizona
Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota
Stanford University, California
University of Alaska, Anchorage MFA program
University of Arizona
University of New Orleans, Louisiana
University of New Orleans’ Summer Writing Program, Madrid, Spain
Washington State University, Washington
Willamette University, Oregon
Writers @ Work, Utah
Writing Culture Conference, Lewis & Clark College, Oregon

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