Work Experience
Here’s what I can remember, in no particular order: babysitting; housework & cooking (including the necessary shopping); high school teaching (including being a substitute); college teaching; selling housedresses, robes, men’s shirts and “gifts”; winter holiday gift-wrapping; billing, phone and general clerical work for a diaper service; public speaking, performing and leading workshops; studying and doing research; reading the Tarot; administration for a nursery/primary school; counseling, driving, medical and clerical work for an underground abortion clinic; teaching sex education & childbirth/nursing classes; editing a scholarly journal; being an editor/judge for literary magazines, contests and residency selection; editing other writers' manuscripts; mothering; being assistant dean for doctoral studies and administrator for women’s studies at a university; being the founding director of a university center for women and coordinator of a university-wide sexual harassment education initiative; consulting for, appearing in and producing documentary videos; teaching and advising doctoral candidates; organizing and coordinating events; being a nonprofit board member; doing maintenance, delivery and sales as a plant store clerk; managing a small holistic health center (all tasks from bookkeeper to receptionist) …. and writing.
Books and Book-like Objects
poetry and fiction collections, in progress
4th Period English, The Ash Creek Series: Portland, 2009
Family Business, The Ash Creek Series: Portland, 2008
POEMS, The Ash Creek Series: Portland, 2008
What if your mother, Goshen: Chicory Blue Press, 2005
Grace Paley's Life Stories, A Literary Biography, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 1993
Every Mother's Son (US and UK) The Women's Press, 1996, 1992; Seattle: Seal Press, 1986; London: The Women's Press, 1983; New York: Doubleday, 1983
Our Mothers' Daughters (US and UK): The Women's Press, 1996, 1992; Berkeley: Shameless Hussy Press, 1986, 1979; London: The Women's Press, 1980
Some Poetry
“86” Diner, 2006, Volume 6
“Eight” Junctures (online, New Zealand) Fall 2006
“Nostalgic Smoking and Drinking Poem” Poetica, Fall 2006
“Snow, Fall” Sharkforum (online) October 2006
“They Say There’s No Evidence” Michigan Avenue Review (online)1/1, Fall 2006
“Arts and Crafts” Northwest Women’s Review, April/May 2006
“Fiction, Science” Bridges, Spring 2006
“Alternative Medicine” and “Correspondence,” Nimrod, 9/2 2006 (the latter corrected in next issue)
“Vocabulary Homework” Buffalo Carp, 3, 2005-6
“For All the Mary Catholics” POOL #4, 2005
“We Must Die, Love” and “Lois, Questions” El Dia de Los Muertos show, AHSS Gallery, 2005
“Snow, Fall” Oregonian, 10.9.05
“Woman Finds Truth” Main Channel Voices, 1.3, Summer 2005
“No doughnut” Poetry East 53, Fall 2004
“Applied History” Elixir 4.2, 2004
“What the Birds Say” Poems and Plays 11, 2004
“Facts of Life” Prairie Schooner, Spring 2004
“Like Always” Square Lake, Fall 2003
“The train is in the station” Witness, XVII/1, 2003
“Birth Control” and “Glenda Charleston, 1971” and “Poem as Film Script” and “Here is what
happened” Affilia, 18/2 Summer 2003
“Once I sat on the side of a mountain” Poets Against the War website + Portland Alliance 23/4, 2003
“Jocasta Interviewed in Hell” Family Reunion, Chicory Blue Press, Goshen, 2003
“The Stepmother” and You ask, I answer” Bridges, 9/2, 2002
“Great with Child” A Fierce Brightness, Calyx Press, Corvallis, 2002
“Sperm” and “What if your mother,” 5AM 17, 2002
“Japanese Garden Moon,” The Oregonian, p.E9 11/17/02
“Carhop,” 13th Moon, XVII/1-2, 2002
“Brave and New” and “Let us pray” Nimrod International Journal, Fall/Winter 2002
“Oona Delany” and “Here is what happened” and “Women’s Liberation” and “In the Service we said” and “yes and no” Reproductive Health Matters, Summer 2002
“The Carnival Dream” Manzanita Quarterly, Summer 2002
“Great with Child” and “Sealed Birth Records Challenged in Court” Calyx, Summer 2002
“Lullabye and Good Night” and “Over the moon” Fireweed, January 2002
“The Little Boys” Manzanita Quarterly, Spring 2002
“The First True Thing” Manzanita Quarterly, Winter 2001/2002
“The Sun in Montana” and “Nickel Heart,” Diner Fall/Winter 2001
“Obstetrician Murdered by Terrorist in Amherst, New York,” Sojourner, November 2001
“Postcolonial Translation,” Aries, August 2001
“Celia finally responds, 1998,” The Oregon Review, Spring/Summer 2001
“En la Clase de Español,” Red Cedar Review, Winter 2000-2001
“In the Service we said,” pms/poem,memoir,story 2001
“She couldn’t be sure what he’d say…” Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights Newsletter
71/3, 2000
“Sheep and Goats,” The Portland Alliance, Fall 2000
“Maternal Instinct,” and “eggs” and “Family Resemblance,” Prairie Schooner, Fall 2000
“Dorothy on the bricks, never in Kansas to begin with” with accompanying essay, Fireweed: Poetry of Western Oregon, 10/2, Winter 1999
“naked wild,” Talus and Scree, 5 (1998)
“Blue,” Passager, 1998 Contest Issue
“Accident” and “We must die, love,” Fireweed: Poetry of Western Oregon, Summer 1998, 9/4
“We tell this story.” and “The Light on the Water,” Nimrod: International Journal, 41/2, 1998
“Sun from the Lake” and “what do you want now,” The Temple, October, 1997, 1/4
“The Teacher at Home,” Sojourner, July 1997
"Hard times, fast river," Passager, 1996 Contest Issue
"City River," Prairie Hearts: Women View the Midwest, Outrider Press, Crete, Illinois, 1996
"Stone on Stone" and excerpts from "I'll Tell You What My People Know of the Land," BRIDGES, 5/2, 1996
"Apple Juice," Calyx, Winter 1995/96, 16/2
"loverchild," Motherwork, Fall/Winter 1995
"memory carousel," Rhino, 1995
"Return," special edition of Women and Language, "Women and the Language of Race and Ethnicity," Volume XVIII, Number 1, Spring 1995; also BRIDGES, 1/2, 1990
"Once I sat on the side of a mountain," Exit 13, #7, 1995
"Mamababy" and "The Body of A Goddess," Frontiers, XV/2, 1994
Some Prose
“Walking the Lake’s Edge in Winter” Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes Michigan State University Press, 2006
“Substitution” The Teacher’s Voice, 1/1 2006
“Abortion Is A Motherhood Issue” (revised) Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, 4th edition; McGraw-Hill, 2006
“Going to School with Grace Paley” Triplopia (online), April 2006
“Sheila’s Deposition, 1997” and “Noreen’s Phone Calls, 1999” pms/poem-memoir-story
#4, 2004
“Memorial” VietNow 14/2, 2004
“She said” [excerpted/performed] Words of Choice performances nationally, 2003-ongoing
“My Mother Died When I Was Little” StringTown, Fall 2002
“She said” [revised] Reproductive Health Matters, Summer 2002
“She said” [revised], Conscience, Summer 2001
“Carrying Over,” Sojourner, February 2001
“Mother Was Right,” The Oy of Sex: Jewish Women Write Erotica, Cleis Press, 1999
“Talking about Suzie, 1959” and “My father tells me something, 1973,” Hurricane Alice 13/2-3, 1998
“She said,” Calyx, Winter, 1998, 17/3
“Women Worrying in the USA,” ZYZZYVA, Fall, 1998, XIV/2; also The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, The Women’s Press, UK
“Abortion Is A Motherhood Issue,” Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering, Spinsters Ink, Minneapolis, Winner of the 1995 Minnesota Book Award for Non-fiction; also in Motherwork, Summer 1995 and Sojourner, August 1991
Introduction, Dear Mother, The Women's Press, London, 1994
"My Father's Prostate Gland," Sojourner, August 1994
"The Book of Daniel," Feminist Parenting, Crossing Press, Freedom, CA, 1994
"Celebrating Nelly," Women's Studies/Thinking Women, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1993, and Sojourner, 1990
"Melissa" and "Louise," Word of Mouth – Vol.2: Short-Short Stories by Women, Crossing Press, 1991
Writing Workshops Taught (selected)
Telling Stories, Montpelier VT, 2004 & 2005
guest writer: Ellen Lesser
What Work Is: Writing About Work, South San Francisco CA, 2000
guest writer: Evelyn C. White
Telling Stories, Washington DC, 1999
guest writer: Edward P. Jones
Telling Stories, Cincinnati OH, 1998
guest writer: Erin McGraw
Women Write the Land, Logan Utah, 1995
guest writers: Evelyn C. White and Judith Barrington
Credentials
PhD, English, Loyola University Chicago, highest honors
MA, Women's Studies, Goddard College
Urban Preceptorship, University of Illinois Medical School, Department of Preventive Medicine
BA, English, Northwestern University
High School Diploma, Niles Township High School, Illinois
Underage Work Permit, State of Illinois
Here’s what I can remember, in no particular order: babysitting; housework & cooking (including the necessary shopping); high school teaching (including being a substitute); college teaching; selling housedresses, robes, men’s shirts and “gifts”; winter holiday gift-wrapping; billing, phone and general clerical work for a diaper service; public speaking, performing and leading workshops; studying and doing research; reading the Tarot; administration for a nursery/primary school; counseling, driving, medical and clerical work for an underground abortion clinic; teaching sex education & childbirth/nursing classes; editing a scholarly journal; being an editor/judge for literary magazines, contests and residency selection; editing other writers' manuscripts; mothering; being assistant dean for doctoral studies and administrator for women’s studies at a university; being the founding director of a university center for women and coordinator of a university-wide sexual harassment education initiative; consulting for, appearing in and producing documentary videos; teaching and advising doctoral candidates; organizing and coordinating events; being a nonprofit board member; doing maintenance, delivery and sales as a plant store clerk; managing a small holistic health center (all tasks from bookkeeper to receptionist) …. and writing.
Books and Book-like Objects
poetry and fiction collections, in progress
4th Period English, The Ash Creek Series: Portland, 2009
Family Business, The Ash Creek Series: Portland, 2008
POEMS, The Ash Creek Series: Portland, 2008
What if your mother, Goshen: Chicory Blue Press, 2005
Grace Paley's Life Stories, A Literary Biography, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 1993
Every Mother's Son (US and UK) The Women's Press, 1996, 1992; Seattle: Seal Press, 1986; London: The Women's Press, 1983; New York: Doubleday, 1983
Our Mothers' Daughters (US and UK): The Women's Press, 1996, 1992; Berkeley: Shameless Hussy Press, 1986, 1979; London: The Women's Press, 1980
Some Poetry
“86” Diner, 2006, Volume 6
“Eight” Junctures (online, New Zealand) Fall 2006
“Nostalgic Smoking and Drinking Poem” Poetica, Fall 2006
“Snow, Fall” Sharkforum (online) October 2006
“They Say There’s No Evidence” Michigan Avenue Review (online)1/1, Fall 2006
“Arts and Crafts” Northwest Women’s Review, April/May 2006
“Fiction, Science” Bridges, Spring 2006
“Alternative Medicine” and “Correspondence,” Nimrod, 9/2 2006 (the latter corrected in next issue)
“Vocabulary Homework” Buffalo Carp, 3, 2005-6
“For All the Mary Catholics” POOL #4, 2005
“We Must Die, Love” and “Lois, Questions” El Dia de Los Muertos show, AHSS Gallery, 2005
“Snow, Fall” Oregonian, 10.9.05
“Woman Finds Truth” Main Channel Voices, 1.3, Summer 2005
“No doughnut” Poetry East 53, Fall 2004
“Applied History” Elixir 4.2, 2004
“What the Birds Say” Poems and Plays 11, 2004
“Facts of Life” Prairie Schooner, Spring 2004
“Like Always” Square Lake, Fall 2003
“The train is in the station” Witness, XVII/1, 2003
“Birth Control” and “Glenda Charleston, 1971” and “Poem as Film Script” and “Here is what
happened” Affilia, 18/2 Summer 2003
“Once I sat on the side of a mountain” Poets Against the War website + Portland Alliance 23/4, 2003
“Jocasta Interviewed in Hell” Family Reunion, Chicory Blue Press, Goshen, 2003
“The Stepmother” and You ask, I answer” Bridges, 9/2, 2002
“Great with Child” A Fierce Brightness, Calyx Press, Corvallis, 2002
“Sperm” and “What if your mother,” 5AM 17, 2002
“Japanese Garden Moon,” The Oregonian, p.E9 11/17/02
“Carhop,” 13th Moon, XVII/1-2, 2002
“Brave and New” and “Let us pray” Nimrod International Journal, Fall/Winter 2002
“Oona Delany” and “Here is what happened” and “Women’s Liberation” and “In the Service we said” and “yes and no” Reproductive Health Matters, Summer 2002
“The Carnival Dream” Manzanita Quarterly, Summer 2002
“Great with Child” and “Sealed Birth Records Challenged in Court” Calyx, Summer 2002
“Lullabye and Good Night” and “Over the moon” Fireweed, January 2002
“The Little Boys” Manzanita Quarterly, Spring 2002
“The First True Thing” Manzanita Quarterly, Winter 2001/2002
“The Sun in Montana” and “Nickel Heart,” Diner Fall/Winter 2001
“Obstetrician Murdered by Terrorist in Amherst, New York,” Sojourner, November 2001
“Postcolonial Translation,” Aries, August 2001
“Celia finally responds, 1998,” The Oregon Review, Spring/Summer 2001
“En la Clase de Español,” Red Cedar Review, Winter 2000-2001
“In the Service we said,” pms/poem,memoir,story 2001
“She couldn’t be sure what he’d say…” Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights Newsletter
71/3, 2000
“Sheep and Goats,” The Portland Alliance, Fall 2000
“Maternal Instinct,” and “eggs” and “Family Resemblance,” Prairie Schooner, Fall 2000
“Dorothy on the bricks, never in Kansas to begin with” with accompanying essay, Fireweed: Poetry of Western Oregon, 10/2, Winter 1999
“naked wild,” Talus and Scree, 5 (1998)
“Blue,” Passager, 1998 Contest Issue
“Accident” and “We must die, love,” Fireweed: Poetry of Western Oregon, Summer 1998, 9/4
“We tell this story.” and “The Light on the Water,” Nimrod: International Journal, 41/2, 1998
“Sun from the Lake” and “what do you want now,” The Temple, October, 1997, 1/4
“The Teacher at Home,” Sojourner, July 1997
"Hard times, fast river," Passager, 1996 Contest Issue
"City River," Prairie Hearts: Women View the Midwest, Outrider Press, Crete, Illinois, 1996
"Stone on Stone" and excerpts from "I'll Tell You What My People Know of the Land," BRIDGES, 5/2, 1996
"Apple Juice," Calyx, Winter 1995/96, 16/2
"loverchild," Motherwork, Fall/Winter 1995
"memory carousel," Rhino, 1995
"Return," special edition of Women and Language, "Women and the Language of Race and Ethnicity," Volume XVIII, Number 1, Spring 1995; also BRIDGES, 1/2, 1990
"Once I sat on the side of a mountain," Exit 13, #7, 1995
"Mamababy" and "The Body of A Goddess," Frontiers, XV/2, 1994
Some Prose
“Walking the Lake’s Edge in Winter” Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes Michigan State University Press, 2006
“Substitution” The Teacher’s Voice, 1/1 2006
“Abortion Is A Motherhood Issue” (revised) Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, 4th edition; McGraw-Hill, 2006
“Going to School with Grace Paley” Triplopia (online), April 2006
“Sheila’s Deposition, 1997” and “Noreen’s Phone Calls, 1999” pms/poem-memoir-story
#4, 2004
“Memorial” VietNow 14/2, 2004
“She said” [excerpted/performed] Words of Choice performances nationally, 2003-ongoing
“My Mother Died When I Was Little” StringTown, Fall 2002
“She said” [revised] Reproductive Health Matters, Summer 2002
“She said” [revised], Conscience, Summer 2001
“Carrying Over,” Sojourner, February 2001
“Mother Was Right,” The Oy of Sex: Jewish Women Write Erotica, Cleis Press, 1999
“Talking about Suzie, 1959” and “My father tells me something, 1973,” Hurricane Alice 13/2-3, 1998
“She said,” Calyx, Winter, 1998, 17/3
“Women Worrying in the USA,” ZYZZYVA, Fall, 1998, XIV/2; also The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, The Women’s Press, UK
“Abortion Is A Motherhood Issue,” Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering, Spinsters Ink, Minneapolis, Winner of the 1995 Minnesota Book Award for Non-fiction; also in Motherwork, Summer 1995 and Sojourner, August 1991
Introduction, Dear Mother, The Women's Press, London, 1994
"My Father's Prostate Gland," Sojourner, August 1994
"The Book of Daniel," Feminist Parenting, Crossing Press, Freedom, CA, 1994
"Celebrating Nelly," Women's Studies/Thinking Women, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1993, and Sojourner, 1990
"Melissa" and "Louise," Word of Mouth – Vol.2: Short-Short Stories by Women, Crossing Press, 1991
Writing Workshops Taught (selected)
Telling Stories, Montpelier VT, 2004 & 2005
guest writer: Ellen Lesser
What Work Is: Writing About Work, South San Francisco CA, 2000
guest writer: Evelyn C. White
Telling Stories, Washington DC, 1999
guest writer: Edward P. Jones
Telling Stories, Cincinnati OH, 1998
guest writer: Erin McGraw
Women Write the Land, Logan Utah, 1995
guest writers: Evelyn C. White and Judith Barrington
Credentials
PhD, English, Loyola University Chicago, highest honors
MA, Women's Studies, Goddard College
Urban Preceptorship, University of Illinois Medical School, Department of Preventive Medicine
BA, English, Northwestern University
High School Diploma, Niles Township High School, Illinois
Underage Work Permit, State of Illinois