Experience

St. Cloud State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Jun 2023 - Present

  The Write Place is the writing center at SCSU. The position includes training and supporting writing coaches and staff, supporting student clients, and promoting the center to students and faculty. The Write Place serves select first year composition students co-concurrently.

• • Jan 2017 - Present

  develop and teach English 191: Introduction to Analytical and Rhetorical Writing; develop and teach English 190: Introduction to Analytical and Rhetorical Writing-supplemental; develop and teach Honors 160: Banned Books; my composition course section accepted in the Huskies Advance Social Justice track in the program's first semester, 2021; Spring 2022 Adjunct Faculty Improvement Grant; Fall 2021 Adjunct Faculty Improvement Grant; Spring 2021 Adjunct Faculty Improvement Grant for Social Justice in the Classroom; work with international students to improve language skills; guide first year students through the transition to college; Safe Space training October 2017; Hey, You Okay? training October 2019; returning to SCSU (previous adjunct from 1995 to 2004 and other colleges in 2003 and 2006-2007); college classes taught include Honors, composition, foundations, literature, Scandinavian literature, novels, humanities, and creative writing; NCTE blog publications "Learning from My Mistakes" (2020) and "Study Groups May Help Lonely College Students" (2022); “Successes and Challenges for Supplemental Instruction in First Year Composition: Insights from Instructors and Writing Coaches” presentation at the Minnesota Writing and English (MnWE) 2023 Conference Show less



Freelance

• Writer and Editor

  • 1997 - Present

  national Ben Franklin award winner; columnist since 2000 for the St Cloud Times writers group, the second Sunday each month at sctimes.com; author of "Hidden Maples" (Three Blankets Press 2014); author and photographer of "A Year in My Garden" (Three Blankets Press 2013); author of "The Christmas Sisters" (Three Blankets Press 2013); author of "Grow It. Eat It." (Nodin Press 2005), which won a national Ben Franklin award; author of several unpublished works; book awards judge; editor, copy editor, and proofreader of many manuscripts (including cookbooks, biography, history, memoir, travelogue, essays, literary fiction, poetry, and speculative fiction/science fiction/fantasy) Show less



Upward Bound, College of Saint Benedict

• Saint Joseph, MN

• Bridge English Instructor

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2021

  develop and teach ENGL 112: Introduction to Rhetorical and Analytical Writing for college credit, develop and teach ENGL 110: Introduction to Literature for college credit, guide Upward Bound students as they transition from high school to college, communicate with Upward Bound staff on student progress develop and teach ENGL 112: Introduction to Rhetorical and Analytical Writing for college credit, develop and teach ENGL 110: Introduction to Literature for college credit, guide Upward Bound students as they transition from high school to college, communicate with Upward Bound staff on student progress



Great River Regional Library

• Cold Spring and Richmond, Minnesota

• Branch Library Assistant

  • Apr 2010 - Dec 2014

  assist patrons with acquiring library materials, research patron information requests, recommend materials (reader's advisory), supervise aides and volunteers, plan author visits, plan story times, plan programs, train volunteers, supervise library facilities, use technology to enhance patron experiences, teach technology to patrons, create library displays, maintain the library collection through weeding and requests, mindfully listen to patrons and co-workers assist patrons with acquiring library materials, research patron information requests, recommend materials (reader's advisory), supervise aides and volunteers, plan author visits, plan story times, plan programs, train volunteers, supervise library facilities, use technology to enhance patron experiences, teach technology to patrons, create library displays, maintain the library collection through weeding and requests, mindfully listen to patrons and co-workers