Vita

Education:

  • MFA: Colorado State University. Creative Writing/Poetry.

  • MA: Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English. English Literature.

  • BA: Windham College. English Literature.

Book Publications:

  • Electric Grace. Lune Press, Fall 2024.

  • The Next Noise Is Our Hearts. Middle Creek Publishing & Audio. Fall 2024.

  • This Incendiary Season. Middle Creek Publishing & Audio. “After” &
    ”Saints Day Bazaar” Pushcart Prize Nominees. Fall 2020.

  • Cirque & Sky. Middle Creek Publishing & Audio. Winner of Fledge Chapbook Contest. Spring 2016.

Awards:

  • “Song of Myself X” Marc Fischer Poetry Prize. Second Place. Telluride, Colorado. April 2016.

  • “Granite & Silver”, “Cirque & Cloud” & “Sagebrush & Mica” Colorado Art Share. Denver Botanic Gardens & Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Commissioned three letterpress broadsides printed by Wolverine Farm Publishing of my Colorado pastoral poems purchased by 75 art patrons. October 2015.

  • Colorado Creative Industries Career Development Grant. Grant to support my artist residency at Vermont Studio Center. April 2015.

  • Arapahoe Community College Writer’s Studio Award. First Place. “Theory of Flight, Circa 1709”  Pushcart Prize nominee. Spring 2012

  • Arapahoe Community College Writer’s Studio Award. Second Place. “Reanimation Experiment” Spring 2010.

  • Disquiet International Writing Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. Scholarship to attend in June 2011.

  • Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, Vermont. Fellowship. October 2012.

  • Arts Alive Fellowship. Fort Collins, Colorado. Commission to write poems based on my travels to Turkey. Fall 2006.

  • “Explaining” American Academy of Poets College Award. Fall 2001.

  • Fulbright-Hays Scholarship India Study Group Fellowship. I studied and traveled to India and wrote poems in my recently published book, This Incendiary Season. Fall 2000.

  • Scholarships to attend the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference twice, Middlebury, Vermont and Aspen Writer’s Conference, Aspen, Colorado.

  • National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship to study New England Renaissance in Fort Collins, Colorado and Massachusetts. Included travel to New England to visit the homes of Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott and other historic sites.

Artist Residencies:

  • Breckenridge Creative Arts. BreakCreate Artist-in-Residence. Breckenridge, Colorado. April 2017.

  • Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, Vermont. April 2015. 

  • Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, Vermont. October 2012.

Poetry Publications:

Anthologies:

  • “My Version of War”, “ Romeo and Juliet in Bosnia” Charlie Mike. Spring 2023.

  • “Wolf” I Love Your Poem. Boulder Poetry Scene. Spring 2023.

  • “Surgical Strike”, “Still Life with Mass Graves”, “Their Letters”, “While in Venice the War”, “On Viewing the First Photograph of the Atomic Bomb, Trinity Test Site, July 1945 5:25:45 at the New Mexico Museum of Art” & “Notes Towards a Libretto” Charlie Mike. Fall 2020.

  • “Self-Portrait of a Young Feminist, Circa, 1975” Refuse to Stay Silent. Pink Progression. Denver, Colorado, Spring 2020.

  • ‘Trappers at Fault” & “Corn Dancer” & “Desert Journey” Writing the West. American Museum of Western Art, Denver, Colorado, Spring 2015.

  • “West Wind & West Fire” & “Marie Giraud Wind” Writing the West. American Museum of Western Art Denver, Colorado & the Rocky Mountain Land Library, Fairplay, Colorado, Spring 2019.

  • “Our Great Horned Owls” Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park. Wolverine Farm Publishing. Spring 2013.

  • “Their Letters” Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors”. Fall 2012.

  • “On the Road to the Ghost City of Fatiphur Sikir” Landscape and Place: An Anthology of the Poetry of Place. Spring 2009.

  • “Notes Towards a Libretto (fig.3)” Against Agamemnon: An Anthology of War Poetry. Spring 2009.

  • “Aftermath” The Orphaned Adult, Fall 1999.

Literary Magazines:

  • “Dear-” & “Coyotes, in Orbit” Bristlecone Magazine, February, 2022.

  • Frack”ing Accident, Firestone, Colorado. The Colorado Independent. July 2017.

  • “Fracking” Fort Collins Courier. Spring 2014.

  • “Theory of Flight, Circa 1709” The Progenitor. Pushcart Prize nominee. Spring 2013.

  • “It Was” Bombay Gin. Spring 2012.

  • “Hummingbirds” & “Evolution” Matter. Winter 2011.

  • “Dachau” Matter. Spring 2009.

  • “Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region” Matter. Spring 2008.

  • “Lesson on the Greeks” & “In Biology, a Life Science” Teacher’s Voice. Winter 2006.

  • “Boys Boarding School, Varansi” Colere. Winter 2003.

  • “Woman Who Fell from the Sky” & “The Daughter of Daedulus Recognizes Her Enemy” Icarus. Winter 1999.

  • “Egg”, “Starting from Zero” & “Story of an Afternoon” Journal of Kentucky Studies. Fall 1999.

  • “In Summer” Monserrat Review, Fall 2001.

  • “Going to Seed” & “In the Cards” Dry Creek Review, Spring 1996.

  • “Prairie Fire” Flint Hills Review, Spring 1996.

  • “Dear Poet”. The Writing Life, Winter 1994.

  • “One Theory on Angels: A Translation” Poetry Motel, Spring 1998.

  • “Chagall’s Blue Angels” Architrave, Spring 1998.

  • “Her Last Letter” & “My Version of War” Letters from The Heart, Fall 1997.

  • “His Sargasso Sea”, “Still Life with Mass Graves”, “The Diviner”, “What Happened to the Word Desire” and “It Just So Happens” Pinyon Poetry, Featured Poet, Fall 1999.

Art Shows and Art Collaborations

  • Parallels: A Collection of Prints Inspired by Poems. “Red Cowboy Boots” Campus Commons Gallery, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado. Fall 2023.

  • Woman Artists + Poets: A Collaboration. “Great Horned Owl Diary”, Lone Tree Arts Center. Lone Tree, Colorado. Summer 2023.

  • The Stations of the Cross. “Mary Meets Jesus” Poetry Installation and poetry reading at The Peak Community Church, Fort Collins, Colorado. April 2023.

  • Constellations. OpenStage Theatre. Play produced at the planetarium at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. As part of the production, I read science-based poetry focusing on bees and outer space while screening my 8mm stop action animated film Order in Chaos created by Vermont artist Nancy Stone featuring my poem. Fort Collins, Colorado. February 2020.

  • Male Torso, Mid-Century Mask. Poetry/Collage. Museum of Art Fort Collins Mask Exhibit. Fort Collins, Colorado. Private collection. April 2020.

  • Poetry Writing Parties. Museum of Art Fort Collins for three different exhibits. Awkward Family Photos, Haley Hasler’s Self Portraits, and Intricate Form: Brenda Mallory & Sydney Purcell. Social gatherings and writing workshops with writing prompts based on the exhibits featuring an on-the-spot open mic for poems written in the workshops. Fort Collins, Colorado. September 2018, October 2018, and February 2019.

  • Poetry Cafe. Loveland Museum. Poetry installation of 8 interactive and self-directed writing stations to inspire poems from museum patrons and an on-the-spot open mic of poetry written at the installation. Loveland, Colorado. April 2018.

  • Nature’s Grace. The Grace Project. Art Lab. Collaboration with painter Kirsten Savage. “Hummingbirds” “Sky & Granite”, “Cirque & Cloud” & “Sagebrush & Mica” broadsides, painting and sculpture installation. Poetry reading at artist reception. Fort Collins, Colorado. April 2018.

  • Likeness. Art Lab. Exhibit of self-portrait paintings and poetry by many artists and poets. Poetry reading on opening night. Curator of Poetry. Fort Collins, Colorado. November 2018.

  • Surrealistic Writing Games. Breckenridge Creative Arts: BreckCreate. Installation of surrealistic writing games at the Tin Shop Studio commissioned for the Colorado Creative Industries Summit, the state arts agency, during my artist residency. Designed writing games and surrealistic sculptures. Breckenridge, Colorado. May 2017.

  • Vermont Studio Center at the Red Mill. Art Exhibit. “It Was”, “Explain, Please” & “This Was Not the Accustomed Slaughter”. Mixed media art by Sarah Nolan of Santa Fe, New Mexico and poetry broadsides. Johnson, Vermont. Fall 2012.

  • “Hope is a Thing” Mask. Poetry/Collage. “Hummingbirds” and “Hope is a thing of feathers-” by Emily Dickinson collage. Museum of Art Fort Collins Mask Exhibit. Fort Collins, Colorado.. Private collection. April 2015.

  • Open Studios at Vermont Studio Center. Drawing the Figure. Installation featuring my poems “Male Torso, Mid-Century”, “Being the Figure”, & “Drawing the Figure, Diagnosis” illustrated my figure drawings. Johnson, Vermont. April 2015.

  • Open Studio at Vermont Studio Center. Specimen Table. Installation featuring “Granite & Silver”, “Cirque & Clouds” & “Sagebrush & Mica” and items gather from the forest. Johnson, Vermont. April 2015.

  • Order into Chaos. 8mm stop action animated film using colored pencil drawings by Vermont artist Nancy Stone featuring my poem “Order into Chaos.” Winter 1990.

Teaching & Community Engagement:

I have organized countless poetry events in Fort Collins and was a creative writing and literature teacher for 26 years in a variety of settings including Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado State University, Front Range Community College, University of Northern Colorado, Loveland Museum, the Music District, Art Lab, Wolverine Farm Publishing, Bas Bleu Theatre, The Writer’s Harvest and the Fort Collins Museum of Art. I create site specific poetry experiences including poetry readings, writing workshops and poetry installations.