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1 EDUCATION MA Book Publishing, 2011, Portland State University MFA Creative Writing, 2005, Rivier College BA English (minor in Philosophy), 2002, State University of New York Albany AWARDS AND HONORS Finalist, Pacifica Poetry Contest, Pacifica Literary Review, Winner, Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize, The Tishman Review, Nomination, Pushcart Prize, Jabberwock Review, Runner Up, Wabash Prize, Sycamore Review, Nomination, Pushcart Prize, American Literary Review, Honorable Mention, Connecticut River Review Poetry Contest, Winner, Fineline Competition, Mid-American Review, Second Place, Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, Cultural Weekly, Nomination, Best of the Net (Poetry), American Literary Review, Nomination, Best of the Net (Poetry), Gulf Stream Magazine, Finalist, River Styx International Poetry Contest, Winner, Confrontation Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, Paterson Literary Review, Winner, The Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, The Jabberwock Review, Finalist, Yemassee Poetry Contest, Winner, Third Wednesday Poetry Contest, Judge, Utah State Poetry Award, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Semi-Finalist, James Wright Poetry Award, The Mid-American Review, Second place, Crosswinds Annual Poetry Contest, Winner, Red Berry Edition s 7th Annual Valentine s Day Contest, Winner, Redivider Blurred Genre Contest, Redivider, Winner, Philip Booth Prize, Salt Hill, First Runner-Up, Red Hen Press Poetry Award, Finalist, Snyder Award, Ashland Poetry Press, Semi-Finalist, New Millennium Writings Contest (Poetry), Winner, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Nomination, GOSS183's 2015 Independent Best American Poetry Anthology (Poetry), Lunch Ticket, Second place, Vallum Award for Poetry 2015, Vallum Magazine, Second place, Dueling Judges Category, Oregon Poetry Association, Fall Judge, HEART Poetry Award, Nostalgia Press, Nomination, Best of the Net (Poetry), Construction Magazine, Nomination, Best of the Net (Poetry), Lunch Ticket, Nomination, Best of the Net (Poetry), Sequestrum, Second place, Dueling Judges Category, Oregon Poetry Association, Spring 2015.

2 Honorable Mention, Themed Category: Endings, Oregon Poetry Association, Finalist, Colorado Prize for Poetry for Disinheritance, Finalist, Third Coast Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention, Pandora s Collective Annual Poetry Contest, Winner, Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Award, Emrys Journal, Finalist, The Ian MacMillan Award, Hawai i Review, Honorable Mention, Experimental Poem Category, Oregon Poetry Association, Nomination, Pushcart Prize (Poetry), great weather for MEDIA, Nomination, Best of the Net (Poetry), Lunch Ticket, Judge, Oregon Poetry Association Awards, Nomination, Pushcart Prize (Fiction), The Missing Slate, Nomination, Oregon Book Award in Poetry for Controlled Hallucinations, Nomination, Million Writers Award by StorySouth (Fiction), Literary Juice, Runner-Up, Free Verse Poem Category, Oregon Poetry Association, Judge, unfold Poetry Contest, Folded Word Press, Winner, Heart Poetry Award, Nostalgia Press, Nomination, Pushcart Prize (Poetry), Folded Word Press, Finalist, Rumi Prize in Poetry, Arts & Letters, Second place, The Pinch Poetry Prize, The Pinch, Finalist, Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, The Heartland Review, Judge, Flash Fiction Contest, Ooligan Press, PUBLICATIONS Books - Author Disinheritance. Apprentice House, Controlled Hallucinations. FutureCycle Press, The End of Mythology. Virgogray Press (Chapbook), From Colder Climates. Folded Word Press (Chapbook), The Longest Compass. Finishing Line Press (Chapbook), Autobiography of Fever. Bedouin Books (Chapbook), The Art of Raining. The Knives Forks and Spoons Press (Chapbook), Door, Door. Red Ochre Press (Chapbook), A Pure River. The Last Automat Press (Chapbook), Books Editor Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest. Ooligan Press, Motionless from the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems. Bare bone books (Chapbook), Song of Ourselves: Celebrating 150 Years of Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman 150 (Chapbook), Book Reviewer or Blurb Writer

3 The Doubtful House by Alice Fogel, blurb writer, Spectral Forms by Ce Rosenow, for Oregon Poetry Association, Military Alphabet by Debbra Palmer, blurb writer, Seven Parts Woman by Marjorie Power, blurb writer, Reality Wayfarers by Linda King, blurb writer, Understory by Paulann Petersen, for Oregon Poetry Association, In the Common Dream of George Oppen by Joseph Bradshaw, Prick of the Spindle, Exit Strategies by David Tomaloff, Prick of the Spindle, Journals and Anthologies Over 400 publications (poetry and fiction) in literary magazines and anthologies, including American Literary Review, Third Coast, Hotel Amerika, Nimrod International Journal, Inkwell, Cider Press Review, Bryant Literary Review, Cream City Review, The Chaffin Journal, The Paris-American, The Evansville Review, The Laurel Review, Permafrost, RHINO, Hawai i Review, Poetry Salzburg, Sugar House Review, Hawai i Pacific Review, Decanto, The Cortland Review, Willow Review, Blast Furnace, Osiris, and various national and international anthologies. EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Editor, The Inflectionist Review, 2013-Current. Editor, Motionless from the Iron Bridge (Chapbook), Editor, Walt Whitman 150 (all projects associated with organization), 2012-Current. Editorial Assistant, HoboEye, OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Annual Contest Chair, Oregon Poetry Association, 2015-Current. Board Member of The Friends of William Stafford, Co-Founder, Editor, & Designer, The Inflectionist Review, 2013-Current. Marketing Director, Inkwater Press, 2013-Current. Co-Director, Editor, & Designer, Walt Whitman 150, Literary Agent & Publicist, Freelance, 2011-Current. Co-Director, Moonlit Poetry Caravan (Critique Group), 2009-Current. Assistant Teacher, Portland State University, Acquisitions Manager, Ooligan Press, Promotions Assistant Manager, Ooligan Press, Intern, Regional Arts & Culture Council (Portland, Oregon), Publicist, Three Muses Press, Editorial Internship, HoboEye, Teacher for students with developmental disabilities, Plus Company,

4 PRESENTATIONS Lectures & Workshops The Eckleburg Workshops, Online Workshop Series, Writing the Short Poem, Oregon Poetry Association Conference, Workshop, Universalizing the Intimate, Portland, Oregon, Write on the River Conference, Workshop, Writing the Short Poem, Wenatchee, Washington, Terroir Creative Writing Festival, Lecture, The Business of Poetry, McMinnville, Oregon, Inkwater Press, Lecture, Becoming Your Own Publisher, seven locations across Oregon, Daedalus Books, Workshop, The Art of the Pitch, Portland, Oregon, Willamette Writers Conference, Lecture, The Business of Poetry, Portland, Oregon, Northwest Poets Concord, Lecture, Writing the Short Poem, Newport, Oregon, Manzanita Writers Series, Workshop, Universalizing the Intimate, Manzanita, Oregon, First Draft Writer s Series, Lecture, Pendleton, Oregon, Gresham Historical Society, Lecture, Gresham, Oregon, Northwest Poets Concord, Workshop, Writing the Short Poem, Newport, Oregon, The Art Institute of Portland, Lecture, Portland, Oregon, Walt Whitman 150 Celebration, Presentation, Portland, Oregon, Northwest Poets Concord, Lecture, Poetry as Dialogue, Newport, Oregon, Central Oregon Writers Guild, Lecture, Redmond, Oregon, Last Monday Poets, Lecture, Hillsboro, Oregon, Readings Over 100 readings and workshops from 2009 to present, including conferences, reading series, bookstores, libraries, book launches, regional book tours, and art galleries and museums across the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, British Columbia) and Boston area.

5 REFERENCES Dennis Stovall Director, Ooligan Press and Graduate Publishing Program at Portland State University Linda M. Meyer Publisher of Three Muses Press, and Editor & Professor Vinnie Kinsella Editor, Indigo Editing, and Poet & Professor Jeff Hawthorne Director of Community Affairs, Regional Arts & Culture Council