Summary
A writer, book professional, and teacher who exhibits community focus and possesses extensive experience in the humanities, cultural programs, management, grants within the arts, research, public reading and speaking, writing of publicity, and marketing of authors, books, and events.

Award-winning Writer of National Recognition
• Served as editor for Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, with illustrations by Olga Larionova, published by Talmi Entertainment, in 2012.
• Published Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as co-winner of the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition, and published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2012.
• Published Winding Paths Worn through Grass with Virtual Artists Collective in 2012.
• Published Luminous Dream, finalist in the 2010 FutureCycle Poetry Book Award.
• Published the scholarly work The Friendship of Two New England Poets, Robert Frost and Robert Francis with The Edwin Mellen Press in 2009.
• Guest reader in the New England (Creative) Session of the 40th Anniversary of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention in Boston in 2009.
• Guest reader in the 20th Anniversary of Western Massachusetts Recycling in Springfield, MA in 2009 (to open the ceremonies that featured Senator Stan Rosenberg, Congressman Richard E. Neal, and Mayor Dominic Sarno).

Teaching Experience
Taught in the Connecticut Poetry-in-the-Schools Program and in the Night of Fresh Voices Program, the latter offered for gifted high school students through the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT.

Employment Experience

General Book Manager, Confidential,

• At the University Store, UMass, Amherst, introduced over one thousand titles into the Book Department inventory—a significant number were of regional interest: such as books specific to Massachusetts and New England, including history, natural history, and literature.
• Planned and implemented active author event schedule, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Maxine Kumin and Richard Wilbur, psychotherapist Thomas Moore, world renowned artist Barry Moser, and novelist Anita Shreve, among others, including co-hosting the faculty of the UMass African American Studies Program, along with Professor John Bracey, in celebration of African American History Month. Other events sponsored included instituting Massachusetts Audubon Day, in which the speakers included naturalists and scientists such as Donald Kroodsma, Lynn Margulis, John Hanson Mitchell, and Laurie Sanders, who produced the weekly environmental show, Field Notes, that once aired on NPR.
• Invited to attend Follett Higher Education Group Strategic Task Force Meeting held in the home office in Chicago, IL, as one of only a dozen General Book Managers, out of eight hundred forty FHEG-owned college and university bookstores, July 2008.

Antiquarian Cataloguer, Confidential,

• At New England’s largest antiquarian auction house, located in Sunderland, MA, catalogued antiquarian books according to house standards for publication in auction catalogs. Specialties included 20th century American Literature and Children’s Books.

Manager and Buyer, Confidential,

• At Gallows Hill Bookstore, Trinity College, Hartford, CT acted as a consultant to Peter Knapp, of Trinity College Library, for the publication of The History of Trinity College regarding all phases of the publishing process from choosing the printer to the cover design to marketing and publicity.
• Precipitated a donation of twenty-five thousand dollars of non-returnable books, with the assistance of the late Professor of English Fred Pfeil, to the CT Department of Corrections.
• Planned and implemented active author event schedule that included U.S. poet laureates Billy Collins and Donald Hall, and various members of the Trinity College faculty. Developed all aspects of events, including inviting artists and writers, writing press releases and introductions, including organizing receptions and faculty dinners.

Education
Yale University, as an Independent Scholar, 1973-1980. Notable achievements include publishing a full-length feature article, "A Salute to the Varied Career of Rudolph Zallinger," that appeared in Connecticut Artists Magazine, as the cover story in the autumn of 1979. It is thought to have been responsible for the artist being awarded Yale’s Addison Emery Verrill Medal in 1980 for “outstanding contributions to the field of natural history.”

Professional Recognition
• National broadcast of “Ode to the Omelette,” from the recording of a live reading at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT, on Scott Simon’s Weekend Edition Saturday, introduced by NPR host Linda Wertheimer, August 2003.
• Recipient of Artist Fellowship Awards in Poetry from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts in 1978 and in 2003.
• Nominated to the Bookstore Advisory Board of the University Presses of New England (UPNE), 2001.

Publications
• Published over two hundred articles and reviews in periodicals, including The American Book Review, Connecticut Artists, Grolier’s Masterplots, The New Haven Advocate, and Small Press Review—with some of the articles being cover stories. Also, published dozens of press releases and edited and written newsletters.