teaching
Adjunct Faculty, Cumberland University. Lebanon, Tennessee. (Fall 2017)
Fall 2017: Taught one section of English 101-English Composition I.
Adjunct Faculty, Western Kentucky University. Bowling Green, Kentucky. (2008 - Present)
Fall 2008: Taught one section of English 300-Writing in the Disciplines.
Spring 2009: Taught one section of English 300 (online) and one section of English 100-Introduction to College Writing.
Fall 2009: Taught one section of English 200-Introduction to Literature, one section of English 300 (online), and one section of English 203-Creative Writing (online).
Spring 2010: Taught one section of English 300 (online), one section of English 200 (online), and one section of English 200.
Fall 2010: Taught three sections of English 300: two online and one as a night class each Wednesday evening.
Fall 2011: Taught one online section of English 300.
Spring 2012: Taught two online sections of English 300.
Fall 2012: Taught two online sections of English 300 and one online section of English 200.
Spring 2013: Taught one online section of English 300 and one online section of English 200.
Fall 2013: Taught one section of English 200 as a night class each Wednesday evening.
Spring 2014: Taught one online section of English 300.
Fall 2014: Taught two sections of English 300: one online and one as a night class each Wednesday evening.
Spring 2015: Taught one online section of English 300.
Fall 2015: Taught three online sections of English 300.
Spring 2016: Taught one online section of English 300.
Fall 2016: Taught one online section of English 300.
Fall 2020: Taught one online section of English 200.
academic/volunteer service
2021 Shakespeare in the Park volunteer for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.
2020 Post-Graduate Residency Assistant (PGRA) at Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. Traditionally, a PGRA assists in the office, records lectures, escorts guests or prospective students, participates in a workshop, and so on. In 2020, due to coronavirus restrictions, Spalding’s on-campus residency was a virtual event. PGRA duties consisted of starting and ending Zoom-based meetings, providing real-time technical support if/as needed, recording meetings, capturing chat sessions, and completing other duties as assigned.
2019 Marcum Day of Service volunteer at Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.
2016 Winter Shakespeare volunteer for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.
2013, 2014, 2015, & 2016 Shakespeare in the Park volunteer for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.
2013 Editorial Day of Public Service participant at John Early Museum Magnet Middle School.
Participated in Meals on Wheels.
Provided IT support for American Heart Association silent online auction.
Search committee for Professional Development and Personal Enrichment (PDPE) director.
Member of college’s Planning Team.
Coordinated college advisory board meetings.
Provided IT and marketing support to dean’s office for annual budget meeting.
scholarly activity
Southern Festival of Books: Author Host
October 2017
Nashville, Tennessee
I hosted an author session for Andrew Farah and his biography, Hemingway’s Brain.
Southern Festival of Books: Hospitality Volunteer
October 2017
Nashville, Tennessee
I spent a day at the festival volunteering to help authors as they arrived to, and departed from, the event.
Southern Festival of Books: Author Host
October 2016
Nashville, Tennessee
I hosted an author session for Tim Champlin and his biography, The Wild West of Louis L’Amour.
MTSU Write Lecture
September 2016
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
I gave a lecture entitled, “Living a Proactive Literary Life” at the Write creative writing conference, located at Middle Tennessee State University.
Chattanooga Writers’ Guild Panel Discussion
May 2016
Chattanooga, Tennessee
I participated in an editorial panel discussion on publishing strategies.
Panel: The Public Service Side of the Book Business.
October 2014
Nashville, Tennessee
I served on this panel at the 2014 Southern Festival of Books with Tennessee Poet Laureate Margaret Britton Vaughn, award-winning poet Bill Brown, and Southern Novelist River Jordan.
The Pensters Writing Group Presentation
March 2014
Fairhope, Alabama
I traveled to Fairhope in 2014 to give a presentation to the Pensters Writing Group on the work we were doing at 2nd & Church.
Chattanooga Writers’ Guild Presentation
October 2012
Chattanooga, Tennessee
I gave a presentation to the guild’s membership during their “Evening with an Editor” event.
Chattanooga Writers’ Guild Panel Discussion
May 2012
Chattanooga, Tennessee
I participated in a panel discussion with area editors and publishers on the state of publishing.
Panel Discussions
Coordinated with area writers, editors, and literary agents (panelists) to present the following Writer’s Loft panels, each open to the public and held at area bookstores:
Getting Published: From Manuscript to Book (November 2003)
A Literary Oxymoron: Making Money Making Fiction (March 2004)
Breaking In: Working on Your Lucky Break (October 2004)
To Agent or Not to Agent (January 2005)
Creative Writing Workshops
Coordinated with area writers to offer the following Writer’s Loft workshops:
Common Errors of the Novice Writer
Enjoying the Puzzle: Writing Poetry
Critical Reading to Learn Writing Skills
A Guide to Self-Publication
Screenwriting for the Movies
Creating Your Novel
Short Story and Novel Feedback
How to Sell Your Novel
Creative Process for The Memoir
Follow the Golden Thread from The Triggering Town
How to Become a Published Author
Poet’s Life, a Clue to the Poem
Putting the Creative in Nonfiction
Text as Mentor
The Elements of Fiction and Their Use in Crafting
The Narrative Line in the Short Story: Methodology
Creative Writing Lectures
Coordinated with area writers to offer the following Writer’s Loft lectures:
A World in Every Word: Metaphor and Poetic Gravity
Beyond the First Draft: Going Deeper
Out of Fear
Plot & Fiction
The Architecture of Fiction
The Fundamentals of Fiction
The Premise from Which All Things Dangle
The Living Rocks: Poetic Consciousness
Writing that First Novel