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Ph.D in English, Ohio University, 1998
M.A. in Creative Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992
B.A. in English, Colgate University, 1986
Daze, Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006 (poetry)
A Sacrificial Zinc, Pleiades/LSU Press, 2001 (poetry)
Still: to be perpetual, Dove|Tail Poetry, 2007 (poetry)
Words About James, Phylum Press, 2006 (poetry)
Surge, Kent State University Press, 1999 (poetry)
1913, ACM, American Literary Review, Bath House, Bellingham Review, Black Warrior Review, Bombay Gin, CHAIN, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Connecticut Review, Controlled Burn, Copper Nickel, Cream City Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Double Room, ecopoetics, Electronic Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, Gargoyle, Graham House Review, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, High Plains Literary Review, International Quarterly, The Journal, key satchel, Kinesis, LIT, Maisonneuve, Many Mountains Moving, Mid-American Review, The News, New American Writing, New Delta Review, New Orleans Review, Notre Dame Review, Paragraph, Pavement Saw, Permafrost, Plainsongs, Pleiades, Quarterly West, Quarter After Eight, Sentence, Sonora Review, Sou'wester, Sniper Logic, Sycamore Review, Tampa Review, Third Coast, untitled, Verse, VOLT
American Book Review, American Studies International, Chicago Review, ecopoetics, Denver Quarterly, Double Room, Field, Iowa Review, ISLE, Quarter After Eight, Poetry International, Reading Under the ! Sign of Nature, Rolling Stock, Sniper Logic, Weber Studies, Web Conjunctions, West Branch, The Writer's Chronicle, Verse
Teaching Award (2), University of Colorado, Boulder
Pushcart Prize nominations (2)
Residency Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Lena Miles Weaver Todd Prize for A Sacrificial Zinc, Pleiades/LSU Press
Wick Chapbook Prize for Surge, Kent State University
Finalist for The Bakeless Prize, Brittenham Prize, Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series, Colorado Prize, Cleveland State Poetry Prize, The Journal Prize, Georgia Contemporary Poetry Prize
INTRO Series Award, Associated Writing Programs
Billee Murray Denny Poetry Prize, Lincoln College, Illinois
Jovanovich Prize, University of Colorado, Boulder
Vancouver Public Library, Canada 2005
Many Mountains Moving, Boulder, CO 2005
National Poetry Foundation, Orono ME 2004
Colorado State University, CO 2003
Denver University, Denver, CO 2003
The Ear Inn, NYC 2003
Cody’s Books, Berkeley, CA, 2003
Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO 2003
Bertha's Mussels, Baltimore, MD 2003
Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IA 2002
Checkpoint Charlie, New Orleans, 2002
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2002
Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO, 2002
Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO 2001
University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990-2001
National Poetry! Foundation, Orono, ME, 2000
Kent State University, Kent, OH, 1999
Ohio University, Athens, OH, numerous 1994-98
FAWC, Provincetown, MA, 1998
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 2003-present
Assistant Professor, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA, 2002-2003
Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1999-2002
Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1999
Instructor, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1997-8
Teaching Associate, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1993-7
Lecturer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1992-3
Teaching Associate, University for Youth, Denver University, Denver, CO, 1990-1
Reading Specialist, University Hills Elementary School, Boulder, CO, 1988-89
Creative Writing Committee, Reading Series Committee (Chair), Writers Harvest Committee (Chair), Ram Welcome (Chair), Colorado State University, 2003-present
Grants Board, Arts and Humanity Assembly of Boulder, 2001-2002
Judge, Wick Chapbook Prize, Kent State University, 2001
Contributing Editor, Quarter After Eight, 1998-2001
Guest Editor, Colorado Review, 2005
Editor, Tattered Fetlock, 1993-present
Poetry Editor, Shankpainter, 1998-9
Editor, Quarter After Eight, 1993-1998
Poetry Editor, Sphere, 1994-5
Graduate Student Director, Visiting Writers Program
University of Colorado Boulder, 1990-2
Travel Liaison, The Novel of the Americas
University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990-2
Academy of American Poets, 2001-present
Modern Language Association, 1997-present
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, 1996-present
Associated Writing Programs, 1992-present
Ecopoetics, Poetry of Witness, Ekphrasis, Creative Nonfiction, Literature of the West.
Like Pirates, book of poetry in progress.
Questioning (the) Witness: Interviews in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
Green Horizons: Toward an Ecopoetics, scholarly book of ecopoetics.
Plumbing Center: Essays on Place, Relationship and Community, creative nonfiction.
"An Earth of Actual Value": Ecopoetics in Poetry and Practice, editor, current activity in the field.