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I have been writing seriously since 1975 and have taught writing since 1980. After publishing many poems and essays in North American literary magazines and anthologies, I published my first book about writing (Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down) in 1991 with co-author Christi Killien, and since then, I have continued to produce many more books on writing. Creative Writing Demystified is out from McGraw Hill, and Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Second Edition, is available from Silver Threads in San Diego. In September 2009, my memoir, A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief, was published by Imago Press in Tucson, AZ. A complete list of my books and how to purchase them is available on my website.
I have written articles for Writer's Digest magazine and The Writer magazine and enjoy sharing my learning about how to keep oneself writing. Over the years, my teaching expanded from local community education courses in writing to speaking and instructing at national writer's conferences and festivals as well as at colleges and universities. I now serve as adjunct visiting faculty for Pima College and The Learning Curve in Tucson, AZ. I served as curator for Seattle's Poetry on the Buses program and as a judge for the Associated Writing Program, Writer's Digest and Oasis literary contests. I am a frequent presenter at conferences, most recently the Edmond's Write on the Sound conference, The Centrum Writer's Conference, The Whidbey Island Writer's Conference and low residency MFA program, the University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Conference, the San Francisco Jack London Writer's Conference, the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Society of Southwest Authors' Conference. Each year, I am joined by a renowned faculty for the Writing It Real Writers' Conference. You can read about the courses and seminars I am currently offering both online and in-person on my website.
My passion is helping those who want to break their writing out into new forms, revise effectively, generate more writing or facilitate the writing of others. In the last three decades, I have worked with hundreds of people in colleges, universities and workshops helping them write personal essays, poetry, fiction, and writer's journals and allow writing a serious place in their lives.
In 2002, I conceived and launched Writing It Real, my online instructional magazine, as a vehicle to help others foster their best work, involve themselves in a community of people who write from personal experience, and learn to teach others how to facilitate good writing. In 2005, I developed LifeJournal for Writers with Chronicles Software.
I have an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Wisconsin, an MAT in Secondary Education from Keane College and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington.
So many of us write more completely, more regularly and with more incentive to explore if we know we have a class or instructor waiting to hear from us. I am here for you and hope to read your work soon.
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