Readings, Lectures, and Conferences
Presentation, Faculty
Lunch Series, Brown University, Rhode Island, July 2009.
Invited lecturer, Roger
Williams University, Bristol Rhode Island, date tbd.
Invited panelist, “When
Bad Things Happen to Good Characters,” Associated Writing Programs Conference,
New York, New York, February 2008.
Reading at Brown
Writer’s Symposium, Brown University, July 2007.
Lecture, “Developing
Narrative through Character and Event,” Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island, February 13, 2007.
Reading at Brown
Writers’ Symposium, Providence, Rhode Island, July 2006.
“Investigating the Mind
2005: Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation,” Washington DC, November
8-10, 2005.
Fiction reading at
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, October 17, 2005.
Reading at Brown
Writers’ Symposium, Brown University, July 23, 2005
“Creative Nonfiction: Revitalizing Expository Writing,”
Brown University, October, 2003.
“Contemplative Practice in Higher Education,” Amherst
College, October, 2003.
Panelist, “The Short-Short Story as Literary Genre,” NEMLA,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2003.
Presented “The Uses of
Uncertainty: Reading The X-Files as
Fairy Tale,” NEMLA, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, March 2003.
Fiction reading at
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, December 9, 2002.
Fiction reading at
South Street Seaport Auditorium, New York, New York, December 4, 2002.
Other Professional Activities
Freelance editor,
writer, and consultant, Amherst, Massachusetts, New York, New York, and
Providence, Rhode Island, September 1991-present.
Writing Coach,
Providence, Rhode Island, September 2004-present.
Founding member of The
Borderlines writing group, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2004-present.
Editorial Board member, Hurricane Alice,
Providence, Rhode Island, September 2001-May 2003.
Writer-in-Residence, The Artists Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut,
Summers 2001 and 2002.
Features Editor in
Religion, Barnesandnoble.com, New York, New York, September 1999-January 2001.
Bookstore Manager and
Bookseller, Union Theological Seminary and Three Lives and Company, New York,
New York; Womrath Books, Bronxville, New York; Atticus/Albion Bookshop,
Amherst, Massachusetts, September 1990-June 1994; September 1998-August 1999.
Literary Agent, Sobel
Weber Associates, New York, New York, May 1997-August 1998.
Assistant Editor,
Picador USA/St. Martin’s Press, New York, New York, June 1994-May 1997.
Attended Prague Summer
Writers Workshop, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Summer 1995.
Studied Fiction with Jayne Anne Phillips and Gish Jen.
Attended Mount Holyoke Writers Conference, Summer 1990. Studied Poetry with
Dave Smith.
Participant in Amherst Writers and Artists Workshops, 1990-1992.
