Title
Associate Professor of English (2003)
Degree
BA, Smith College 1985; MFA, University of Alaska at Fairbanks 1995
Teaching Experience
University of Alaska Fairbanks; Sweet Briar College
Specialties
Nonfiction writing and literature
Interests
Death in Alaska; terror and the sublime; ideas of wilderness; metaphysics and material culture
Selected Publications
Unlearning to Fly: A Memoir (forthcoming)
The Last Settlers (Duquesne University, 1998)
"On Keeping House" (Iron Horse Literary Review, 2005)
"Angle of Attack" (River Teeth, 2004)
"Wild Music: Reflections on Big Oil and Innocence" (Blue Mesa Review, 2003)
"The Metaphysics of Being Stuck" (The Gettysburg Review, 2001)
"What Everyone Wants You to Have" in Under Northern Lights: Artists and Writers on the Alaska Landscape, eds. Kesler Woodward and Frank Soos (University of Washington, 2000)
"Three Paragraphs" (The Sonora Review, 1997)
"Dead Fish and Dreams" in Alaska Passages: 20 Voices from Above the 54th Parallel, ed. Susan Fox Rogers (Sasquatch, 1996)
"My Mother's Body" in American Nature Writing 1994 , ed. John Murray (Sierra Club, 1994) (Reprinted in The Dolphin Reader, ed. Carolyn Perry, Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
"Grease Monkey" (Manoa, 1994)
"Lullaby for Lloyd." (Permafrost, 1992) (Reprinted in Reflections from the Island's Edge: A Sitka Reader, ed. Carolyn Servid. Graywolf, 1994)
Professional Experience
Journalist 1985-1990
Distinctions
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities