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English Department/Allegheny College
Meadville PA 16335
(814) 332-4331
knesset@allegheny.edu
   

  EDUCATION    
       
  University of California, Santa Barbara Ph.D/English  
  University of California, Santa Barbara MA/English  
  University of California, Santa Cruz BA/English  
  (minor in Spanish)

  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 
  Associate Professor, English, Allegheny College, January 1999 - present
  Assistant Professor, English, Allegheny College, September 1995 - December 1999
  Assistant Professor, English, Whittier College, September 1991 - June 1995
  Teaching Assistant, English, UC Santa Barbara, September 1985 - June 1991
   
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  PUBLICATIONS
 
  Books:
   
  Alphabet of the World: Selected Works by Eugenio Montejo, translations, University
  of Oklahoma Press, 2009 (forthcoming).
  Mr. Agreeable, short stories, Mammoth Press, 2008 (forthcoming).
  Saint X, poems, Lewis Clark Press, 2008 (forthcoming).
  Paradise Road, short stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
  The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study, Ohio University Press, 1995.
   
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  Anthologies/Reprints:
   
  "The Dead Know Too Much" (story), Chautauqua, Summer 2008.
  "Nicaragua" (story), in Short Prose for Critical Readers, James Stevens, editor, Kendall/Hunt
  Publishing, 2007.
  "Sensitive Cargo" (poem), in Pennsylvania Seasons, Jeffrey Gainey, editor, University
  of Scranton Press, 2008.
  "Crossroad" (story), in New Sudden Fiction, Robert Shapard and James Thomas, editors,
  W.W. Norton, 2007.
  "Nicaragua" (story), in Flash Fiction Forward, Robert Shapard and James Thomas, editors,
  W.W. Norton, 2006.
  "Mr. Agreeable" (story), in PP/FF: An Anthology, Starcherone Books, Peter Conners, editor,
  2006.
  "Bullet Shell Heart" (poem), in Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Majorie
  Maddox and Jerry Wemple, editors. University Park: Penn State Press, 2005.
  "Mr. Destitute" (story), in Along the Lake: Contemporary Writing from Erie, Sean Thomas
  Dougherty, editor, June 2005.
  "Sing While You May: An Interview with Edward Ka-Spel from Legendary Pink Dots," The Sentimentalist, December 2004.
 

"Mr. Agreeable" (story), in Shadow: Searching for the Hidden Self, NY: Tarcher/Putnam, 2004.
  "Believing in People" (story), in Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2005, Anne Bowling,
  editor. Cinncinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2004.
 

"Insularity and Enlargement in 'Cathedral,'" in Cathedral: The Wadsworth Casebook

  Series in Reading, Research, and Writing, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, series
  editors, Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 2003.
  "Nicaragua" (story), in Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fictions, Mammoth
  Press, Dubois, PA, 2003.
  "Ladybug Inn" (story), in Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fictions,
  Mammoth Press, Dubois, PA, 2003.
  "In the Garden" (review), Beneath the Icy Floe, Issue 1/1, Spring 2003.
  "Audra: An Interview with Bret Helm," Gothic Beauty, Issue 8, January 2003.
  "Narration and Interiority in 'Where I'm Calling From,'" in Raymond Carver, ed. Harold Bloom, Chesea House, Broomall, PA, 2002.
  "Mr. Agreeable" (story), Jack Spade, Issue 1/1, New York, January 2001.
  "Mr. Destitute" (story), Showcase, Volume 2/Issue 1, Jamestown, New York,
  December 2000.
  "Mr. Agreeable" (story), Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII, Wainscott, New York,
  Pushcart Press, 1999.
  "School Bus" (poem), in What's Become of Eden: Poems of Family at Century's End,
  Tarrytown, NY: Slapering Hol Press, 1995.
   
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  Fiction:
   
  "Adult Swim," Boulevard, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
  "Good is All You Know How to Be," Another Chicago Magazine, Spring 2008 (forthcoming).
  "Alum Notes: Class of '84," Boulevard, Fall 2007.
  "The Painter's Wife," The Kenyon Review, Fall 2007.
  "The Dead Know Too Much," Apalachee Review, Spring 2007.
  "Still Life With Candles and Spanish Guitar," The Sun, February 2006.
  "Somebody Decent," St. Anne's Review, Summer 2003.
  "Let Me Finish," Vestal Review, Summer 2003.
  "Nicaragua," Fiction, Winter 2002.
  "The Shape of the Beach," Witness, Winter 2000.
  "Deal, Said the Angel," Witness, Winter 2000.
  "The Cage," Storyquarterly, Fall 1999.
  "Heartland," Fiction, Fall 1999.
  "It Me," New Letters, Fall 1999.
  "Mr. Destitute," New England Review, Spring 1999.
  "Harvest the Wind," North American Review, March/April 1999.
  "Hot Water," Hawai'i Review, Fall/Winter 1998.
  "Poet and Philosopher," The Paris Review, Summer 1998.
  "Be With Somebody," Gettysburg Review, Spring 1998.
  "Behind the Wheel," South Carolina Review, Summer 1997.
  "Believing in People," Western Humanities Review, Summer 1997.
  "Crossroad," High Plains Literary Review, Fall 1997.
  "Mr. Agreeable," Fiction, Spring 1997.
  "Timing," Nebraska Review, Fall/Winter 1997.
  "Snakes Having Babies," Indiana Review, Fall 1996.
  "Paradise Road," Tampa Review, Fall/Winter 1996.
  "The Noise That Wants To Be Joy," Witness, Spring 1996.
  "Paging Barry Badly," Witness, Spring 1996.
  "Remember the Dead and the Dying," Karamu, Spring 1995.
  "The Highway," ZYZZYVA, Winter 1994.
  "Garlic," Potomac Review, Fall 1994.
  "I Want You to Kill Me," Chattahoochee Review, Summer 1994.
  "Scream," Witness, Winter/Spring 1994.
  "Mr. Erotic," Witness, Winter/Spring 1994.
  "Mr. Excitement," Fiction, Spring 1994.
  "Mr. Casual," The Oregon Review, Fall/Winter 1993.
  "Legally Dead," The Oregon Review, Fall/Winter 1993.
  "Record Shop Girl," Tampa Review, Fall 1993.
  "Cells of the Empire," Hawai'i Review, Spring 1993.
  "Paradise for Sheep," Widener Review, Fall 1993.
  "Postcards from Cal," High Plains Literary Review, Winter 1992.
  "Shallow Water," Hayden's Ferry Review, Winter 1992.
  "Salvage," Sycamore Review, Winter 1991.
  "When the Earthquake Came," Fiction, Winter 1990.
  "Together for a While," Descant, Spring/Summer 1990.
  "Awaken the Dragon," Permafrost, Spring/Summer 1990 .
  "Northern Light," The Seattle Review, Spring/Summer 1990.
  "Bitter Acorns, Fallen Seed," South Dakota Review, Autumn 1989.
  "Penalty," Onionhead Quarterly, Summer 1989.
  "Bacteria," Pacific Review, Spring 1989.
  "Close Quarters," Friday Magazine, Spring 1987.
   
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  Poetry:
   
  "The Boar and Salt Water," American Poetry Review, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
  "Koan," Field, Fall 2007.
  "Unveiled," Field, Fall 2007.
  "Affair-Proof Your Marriage: A Manual," New Ohio Review, Summer 2007.
  "Mr. Transcendent," Cincinnati Review, Summer 2007.
  "Thing," Gulf Coast, Summer 2006.
  "Sensitive Cargo," Raritan, Winter 2006.
  "Apology," Raritan, Winter 2006.
  "Stare," New England Review, Winter 2005.
  "Catastrophe Road, " New England Review, Winter 2005.
  "Contingency," Mid-American Review, Spring 2002.
  "Sequestered at Last on His Mountain, Merton Stares Past the Pines at the Rain,"
  Ascent, Winter 2001.
  "Your Own Master," Ploughshares, Winter 2000-01.
  "Platinum Plus," Ploughshares, Winter 2000-01.
  "Dance With Dave," River Styx, Winter 2000-01.
  "Delirium," Green Mountains Review, Fall-Winter 2000-01.
  "Bullet Shell Heart," Green Mountains Review, Fall-Winter 2000-01.
  "Seven Essentials of Millennial People," Raritan, Spring 2000.
  "Not Walter Pater," Iowa Review, Fall 1999.
  "The Other Son," Free Lunch, Fall 1999.
  "Oh, Strikemaster!" Spoon River Poetry Review, Fall 1999.
  "I Hate to Hurt You," Quarterly West, Autumn/Winter 1999/2000.
  "Influence," Seattle Review, Fall 1999.
  "Style," Chelsea, Summer 1999.
  "Willing to Be," Chelsea, Summer 1999.
  "The Churchyard in Stratford With Kate," Poet Lore, Spring 1999.
  "Poison," Poet Lore, Spring 1999.
  "One River Blends With Another," Poet Lore, Spring 1999.
  "Time on the Down of Plenty," Ploughshares, Winter 1998.
  "Dance With Dave in Dave's Head," Phoebe, Fall 1998.
  "Dance With Dave Meets Madame Salvation," Phoebe, Fall 1998.
  "Dance With Dave," Folio, Spring 1998.
  "Goat's Stomach," Spoon River Poetry Review, Spring 1998.
  "Backsliding," Spoon River Poetry Review, Spring 1998.
  "No Love at the Beach," Spoon River Poetry Review, Spring 1998.
  "Mr. Ecstatic," Nimrod, Fall 1998.
  "To the Generous Anonymous Person Who Returned My Valise, Snatched
  From a Bench Near the Library," Nimrod, Fall 1998.
  "Saint X," Prarie Schooner, Spring 1998.
  "I Will, I Will Not," Boston Review, February/March 1998.
  "Vultures," Seattle Review, Fall 1997.
  "Wrong Number," Mudfish, Fall 1997.
  "Ultimate Sign," Laurel Review, Summer 1997.
  "Archile Gorky at Forty," William and Mary Review, Spring 1997.
  "Some of the Most Striking Women I Have Known Have Been Men," Antioch Review,
  Fall 1996.
  "Propinquity," Slant, Summer 1996.
  "Burn" (published anonymously), Free Lunch, Fall 1996.
  "Integrity," The Plum Review, Fall 1996.
  "The Collapse of the Heart is a Myth," Writer's Forum, Fall 1996.
  "France In Tahiti," Poet Lore, Winter 1995-96.
  "Thorn," Poet Lore, Winter 1995-96.
  "Jeremiad," Poet Lore, Winter 1995-96.
  "The No-Theory Theory," Phoebe, Winter/Summer 1996.
  "The Free Europeans," Green Mountains Review, Spring/Summer 1996.
  "Mr. Ironic," Cimarron Review, January 1996.
  "The House With No Glass and No Curtains," Cimarron Review, January 1996.
  "Regarding My Grandfather's Funeral, Which I Did Not Attend," Worcester Review,
  Fall 1995.
  "Days Before Scanners," Anthology of New England Writers, 1996.
  "Love Song," Descant, Fall 1995.
  "The Stinging and Saving," New Orleans Review, Summer 1995.
  "Invective," Black River Review, Fall 1995.
  "The End of the World is Los Angeles," The Ohio Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1995.
  "Painting the Rain," The Ohio Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1995.
  "School Bus," in What's Become of Eden: Poems of Family at Century's End
  (Tarrytown, NY: Slapering Hol Press, 1995).
   
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  Translations:
   
  (poems by Eugenio Montejo):
   
  "In Forests of My Ancient Home," Raritan, Spring 2009 (forthcoming).
  "Speak and Unspeak," Raritan, Spring 2009 (forthcoming).
  "El Dorado," Raritan, Spring 2009 (forthcoming).
  "In the Time That Remains," Raritan, Spring 2009 (forthcoming).
  "Here Again," Poetry International, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
  "Winter Trees Cough Like Old Men," The Paris Review, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
  "Poetry," The Christian Science Monitor, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
  "The Here-on-Earth of a Bird," Five Fingers Review, Summer 2008 (forthcoming).
  "Snow," Rhino, Spring 2008.
  "House," Conduit, Spring 2008.
  "Vintage Erotica," Conduit, Spring 2008.
  "Another Millenium," Cimarron Review, Spring 2008.
  "The Other," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
  "Beyond Time," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
  "Elegy on the Death of My Brother Richard," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
  "Hamlet, Act One," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
  "My Father Returns and Sleeps," Northwest Review, Fall 2007.
  "My Country in an Ancient Map," VERSE, February 22, 2007 (online).
  "On the Eve of Embarking," LIT, Spring 2007.
  "Avenue Duque de Loulé," LIT, Spring 2007.
  "Door," Good Foot, Fall 2007.
  "End of Rain," South Carolina Review, Spring 2007.
  "Men Without Snow," Apalachee Review, Spring 2007.
  "Another Rain," Meridian, Spring 2007.
  "Song," Meridian, Spring 2007.
  "Letra Profunda," Chelsea, Winter 2006/07.
  "If My Statue Awakened," Spoon River Poetry Review, Winter 2006/07.
  "Song Heard at Midnight," Cider Press Review, Winter 2006.
  "Love Isn't Ours," Cider Press Review, Fall 2006.
  "Last Bird," Salt Hill, Winter 2006/07.
  "Here on Earth," Salt Hill, Winter 2006/07.
  "Delivery Room," California Quarterly, Fall 2006.
  "Coming Back," California Quarterly, Fall 2006.
  "Magic Life," Green Mountains Review, Summer 2006.
  "Distant," New American Writing, May/June 2006.
  "Midnight," New American Writing, May/June 2006.
  "The Mill," The Kenyon Review, Summer 2006.
  "My Lantern," Crazyhorse, Spring 2006
  "If I Return Again," Crazyhorse, Spring 2006.
  "On This Street" Carolina Quarterly, Spring 2006.
  "Honor the Ass," Agni, Spring 2006 (online).
  "Toad," Poetry International, Spring 2006.
  "Letters," Poetry International, Spring 2006.
  "White Axe," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
  "Waking Up," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
  "Stars," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
  "Here," Arts and Letters, Fall 2005.
  "I Believe," Mid-American Review, Fall 2005.
  "Duration," Mid-American Review, Fall 2005).
  "Writing," Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 2005.
  "September," The Southern Review, Spring 2005.
  "The Birds Have Shut Up on Purpose," The Southern Review, Spring 2005.
  "Alphabet of the World," New England Review, Summer 2004.
  "Written in Passing," New England Review, Summer 2004.
   
  (prose by Eugenio Montejo):
   
  "Guitar of the Horizon," Denver Quarterly, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
  "The Notebook of Blas Coll," The Southern Review, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
   
  Nonfiction:
   
  "Introduction," New Paths to Raymond Carver, ed. Robert Miltner and Sandra Kleppe,
  University of South Carolina Press (forthcoming).
  "Celluoid Indians: Native Americans and Film" (review), Film Criticism,
  Winter 2001-02.
  "American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue With Culture" (review),
  American Literature, September 2001.
  "Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History in Contemporary American Poetry"
  (review), American Literature, December 1998.
  "Gates to Buddhist Practice" (review), Mountain Record, Spring 1995.
  "Insularity and Self-Enlargement in Raymond Carver's Cathedral,"
  Essays in Literature, Spring 1994.
  "The Final Stitch: Raymond Carver and Metaphor," Profils Americains (Paris),
  Summer 1993.
  "Reading Raymond Carver" (review), American Literature, June 1993.
  " 'This Word Love': Sexual Politics and Silence in Early Raymond Carver," American
  Literature, June 1991.
   
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  Music Reviews/Interviews:
   
  "Sing While You May: An Interview with Edward Ka-Spel from Legendary Pink Dots"
  Gothic Beauty, Fall 2004.
  Legendary Pink Dots, "The Whispering Wall" (review), The Sentimentalist, Summer 2004.
  Collide, "Some Kind of Strange" (review), The Sentimentalist, Summer 2003.
  Various Artists, "Noir" (review), The Sentimentalist, Spring 2003.
  Mission UK, "Aura" (review), The Sentimentalist, Winter 2002.
  Fields of the Nephilim, "Fallen" (review), The Sentimentalist, Winter 2002.
  "An Interview with Alison Shaw of The Cranes," Legends Magazine, October
  2002.
  "Audra: An Interview with Bret Helm," Delirium, October 2002.
  Holy Cow, "Purge" (review), Alternative-Zine, September 2002.
  Audra, "Going to the Theatre" (review), Delirium, September 2002.
  "The Secret of Movement is Never to Stop: An Interview with Peter Murphy,"
  Gothic Beauty, Issue 6, July 2002.
  Funhouse, "Oceans of Tears" (review), The Sentimentalist, Spring 2002.
  The Shroud, "In The Garden" (review), The Sentimentalist, Spring 2002.
  Judith, "Play of Light" (review), The Sentimentalist, Winter 2001/2002.
   
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  PRESENTATIONS
 
  "Writing and Living," Panel Presentation, Chautauqua Literary Arts Center, Chautauqua, NY,
  July 21, 2008.
  "A Sudden Flash," Chautauqua Writers' Center Lecture, Chautauqua, NY, July 20,
  2007.
  "Nature, Longing and Transnational Ecological Discourse: Translating Eugenio Montejo,"
  Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, April 14, 2005.
  "Man on a Bridge," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference, Vancouver, BC, April 2, 2005.
  "Forever Impossible and Forever Necessary: New News From the Front in Translating Poetry,"
  Chautauqua Writers' Center Lecture, Chautauqua, NY, August 20, 2004.
  "Writing, Nature and Surrender," Panel Presentation, AWP Conference,
  Kansas City, MO, March 31, 2000.
  "Art at All Costs," Chautauqua Writers' Center Lecture, Chautauqua, NY,
  July 12, 1999.
  "Zen Insight," Meditation House, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, April 29, 1999.
  "A Novel Idea: From the Inside," Meadville Women's Literary Club, Meadville,
  PA, April 23, 1999.
  "Student Anthology Chapter Introductions," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference,
  Albany, NY, April 17, 1999.
  "The Name's the Game: A Character Spur," Chautauqua Writers' Day,
  Chautauqua Writers Center, Chautauqua, NY, July 19, 1998.
  "Character and Short Fiction," UC Santa Barbara, March 12, 1998.
  "Burying, Unburying: Pedogogies of Conflict in Creative Writing and Literature,"
  San Jose State University, February 6, 1998.
  "Dogen and Zen Practice," Meditation House, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA,
  April 22, 1997.
  "Transorientation and Gay Fiction," Panel Presentation, Gay and Lesbian
  Literature Conference, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, April 12, 1997.
  "Song as Story, Story as Song," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference,
  Washington DC, April 3, 1997.
  "Zen Meditation," Meditation House, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, October
  15, 1996.
  "Hemmed In and Closed Out: Raymond Carver's 'Boxes'," UC Santa Barbara,
  Santa Barbara, CA, July 8, 1996.
  "Meditation and Creative Writing," Panel Presentation, AWP Conference,
  Atlanta, GA, April 11, 1996.
  "Artful Student Presentations," Pedagogy Workshop, AWP Conference, Pittsburgh, PA,
  April 9, 1995.
  "Raymond Carver and Metaphor," Carver In Carver Country Literary Conference, Port
  Angeles, WA, May 25, 1990.
   
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  AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
  Poet-in-Residence, Creating Landscapes Teacher's Intensive, Meadville, PA, June 23-25,
  2008.
  Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 2007.
  Pushcart Prize Nomination, Fiction, 2007.
  Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, July, 2007.
  Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, June/July, 2004.
  Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, July, 2001.
  Distinguished Guest Lecturer on American Literature/Raymond Carver,
  Bundesbank Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2001.
  Pushcart Prize Nomination, Poetry, 2001.
  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, Category of Fiction, 1999 ($5000).
  Writer-in-Residence, Chautauqua Writer's Conference, Chautauqua, NY, July, 1999.
  Pushcart Prize in Fiction, 1999.
  Resident, Vermont Studio Center, June-July, 1993.
  Scholar, Writer's at Work Conference, Park City, Utah, June 1990.
  Distinction, awarded at passing of Ph.D oral exam, Summer 1989.
   
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  SELECTED READINGS
 
  AWP Conference, Chicago, IL, February 12, 2009 (forthcoming).
  Whittier College, Whittier, CA, November 13, 2008 (forthcoming).
  University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, November 12, 2008 (forthcoming).
  University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, November 11, 2008 (forthcoming).
  River Reader, Guerneville, CA, November 7, 2008 (forthcoming).
  California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, November 5, 2008 (forthcoming).
  Union Project Reading, Pittsburgh, PA, May 9, 2008.
  Washington and Jefferson University, Wahington, PA, May 1, 2008.
  Layfayette College, Easton, PA, April 17, 2008.
  Clarion University, Clarion, PA, April 2, 2008.
  Most Wanted Gallery (Potluck Series), Pittsburgh, PA, February 22, 2008.
  Marshall University, Huntington, WV, February 21, 2008.
  Single Voice Reading, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, February 7, 2008.
  Standard Pacific, Brooklyn, NY, February 1, 2008.
  Strega Cafe (Brock University), St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada, January 10, 2008.
  Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, December 6, 2007.
  Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 3, 2007.
  Kent State University (Stark), Canton, OH, November 29, 2007.
  Prosody, WYEP FM, Pittsburgh PA, November 13, 2007.
  Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, November 7, 2007.
  Alfred State College, Alfred, NY, November 1, 2007.
  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17, 2007.
  Glenville State College, Glenville, WV, October 16, 2007.
  Te Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA, October 11, 2007.
  Tattered Corners Books, Meadville, PA, September 29, 2007.
  Chautauqua Writers' Center, Chautauqua, NY, July 15, 2007.
  Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, March 12, 2006.
  The Ritz (hosted by Starcherone Books/AWP), Austin, TX, March 11, 2006.
  The Coffee Den (hosted by Paper St. Press), Mt. Lebanon, PA, August 4, 2005.
  Erie Book Store, Erie, PA, May 28, 2005.
  Chautauqua Writers' Conter, Chautauqua, NY, August 15, 2004.
  Gist Street Readings, Pittsburgh, PA, August 6, 2004.
  Single Voice Reading, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, November 20, 2003.
  Carlito's Gallery, Lexington Ave, NY, NY, October 13, 2003.
  Ear Inn, Spring St, NY, NY, October 11, 2003.
  Gist Street Readings, Pittsburgh, PA, July 19, 2003.
  Penn State University Dubois, Dubois, PA, April 18, 2003.
  City College of New York, NY, NY, March 20, 2003.
  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 23, 2002.
  Chautauqua Writers' Conter, Chautauqua, NY, July 3, 2001.
  SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, November 1, 1999.
  Grounds for Change Coffeehouse, Allegheny College, April 2, 1999.
  Blue Planet Cafe, Meadville, PA, March 6, 1999.
  Cafe Ole, Edinboro, PA, April 29, 1998.
  UC Santa Barbara, Studio A, Santa Barbara, CA, March 12, 1998.
  West Chester University, West Chester, PA, February 26, 1998.
  Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, February 13, 1998.
  Blue Planet Cafe, Market House, Meadville, PA, October 11, 1997.
  Single Voice Reading, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, March 12, 1997.
  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 21, 1997.
  Cafe Ole, Edinboro, PA, December 11, 1996.
  Blue Agave, Santa Barbara, CA, July 9, 1996.
  Barnes and Noble Books, Erie, PA, December 12, 1995.
  Blue Planet Cafe, Market House, Meadville, PA, November 11, 1995.
  Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, February 18, 1995.
  The Colloquy, Beverly Hills, CA, September 14, 1994.
  Living Planet, Long Beach, CA, August 15, 1994.
  Whittier College, Faculty Forum/Community Reading, April 21, 1994.
  KCSB FM (Writer's Gallery Radio), Santa Barbara, February 3, 1994.
  L. A. Valley College, Burbank, CA, November 15, 1993.
  Gaga Coffeehouse, Long Beach, CA, August 12, 1993.
  KCSB FM (Writer's Gallery Radio), Santa Barbara, July 25, 1993.
  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, July 8, 1993.
  L. A. Valley College, Burbank, CA, April 25, 1993.
  Sidestreet Cafe, Santa Inez, CA, January 20, 1993.
  L. A. Valley College, Burbank, CA, November 17, 1992.
  KWQR FM, Whittier, September 20, 1992.
  The Book Stop, Whittier, September 12, 1992.
  Gaga Coffeehouse, Long Beach, CA, September 9, 1992.
  KCSB FM, Santa Barbara, CA May 21, 1992; January 8, 1990; March 16, 1991.
   
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  OTHER ACTIVITIES
 
  Judge, Lafayette College, annual poetry competition, Easton, PA, April, 2008.
  Coordinator, Single Voice Reading Series, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 2007 - 2008.
  Judge, Poetry Out Loud, annual competition, Meadville, PA, February 17, 2007.
  Fiction Judge, Fiction (NY), annual competition, summer 2003.
  Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter, Unkle John's Band, Meadville, PA, 2002 - present.
 

Workshop leader/Instructor, Arts Immersion Program (10 weeks), Allegheny College,

  Meadville, PA, 1998 - present.
 

Workshop leader/Instructor, Creating Landscapes Program (2 weeks), July 2002, July 2003,
  July 2004, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.
  Coordinator, Single Voice Reading Series, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1996 - 2001.
  Fiction Judge, Arts Council of Chautauqua County, annual "Artfacts" Competition, 1999.
  Coordinator, Cafe