PRESENT POSITION:
Professor, The Writing Seminars, 1994
Associate Professor, The Writing Seminars, 1991-1994
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference,
Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont 05753,
Summers of l989, 1990
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
Fiction Editor, The Missouri Review, l985-87; Contributing Editor, Pushcart Prize, l988-
EDUCATION:
Harvard University, A.B., 1970;
Johns Hopkins University, M.A. 1983
OTHER STUDY:
Extensive language studies (French and Russian) and the equivalent of an undergraduate music major, University of California, Irvine, l977-80 (Regents' Scholar, l977-80).
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Fiction writing and modern literature.
PRIZES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS:
Winner of the University of Michigan Literary Fiction Contest 2006 for the novel, A Bad and Stupid Girl;
Bread Loaf Fellowship, summer 1989;
Towson State University Prize for Literature, 1988;
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for 1987-88; 1985
Southern Review, Louisiana State University Short Fiction Prize for Airs of Providence,
Pushcart Prize, 1988.
BOOKS:
A Bad and Stupid Girl, forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, winter, 2006;
Dream Date, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002;
Gallagher's Travels, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997;
Home At Last, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
The Courage of Girls, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991;
The Very Rich Hours, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987;
Airs of Providence, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. |
