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Sample Conferences and Presentations

Sample Conferences and Presentations

Sample Conferences and Presentations

  • Thirteenth International Conference on the Image, “From Ray Bradbury's “The Veldt” to Upload and Free Guy: A Narrative Analysis of the Metaverse and Its Predecessors as Literary and Cinematic Settings”
  • “Teaching Creative Writing for the Global Classroom,” Organizer and Panelist (Panel held with Pamela Marston, Micah Bateman, and Danielle Wheeler.), Association of Writing Professionals
  • CCCC / TYCA Convention, “Towards a Universal Timeline-Based Narrative Model: a teachable diagrammatic exploration of the ways in which narrative is constructed and managed" 
  • AWP “Brave New Media: The Promises and Pitfalls of Teaching Creative Writing for Digital Environments” (Virtual)

Sample Readings and Recording

Sample Conferences and Presentations

Sample Conferences and Presentations

 2021 – Swarthmore College’s Advanced Fiction Workshop, with Q & A (Virtual)

2021 – Texas Tech Young Writers’ Workshop

2020 – Fuller Collaborative Salon, collaborative essay reading with April Freely (Zoom)

2019 – With poet Laura Eve Engel, author of Things That Go, Merced

2018 – LitHop Fresno: Matter and Mercies: An Embodiment (Organizer)

2018 – LitHop Fresno: Shifting American Landscapes (Organizer)

2017 – LitHop Fresno: Women Write the Body (Organizer)

2016 – Fine Arts Work Center Fellows’ Reading with poet Sara Eliza Johnson

2015 – Iowa Youth Writing Studio Reader (Invited)

2015 – Fine Arts Work Center Fellows’ Reading with poet Sophia Starmack

Sample Editing Projects

Sample Conferences and Presentations

Sample Editing Projects

Poetry

  • Grand and Arsenal, Kerri Webster (University of Iowa Press) (Editor)
  • Detailing Trauma, Arianne Zwartjes (University of Iowa Press) (Editor)

Fiction

  • If I’d Known You Were Coming, Kate Milliken (University of Iowa Press) (Editor)
  • When Mystical Creatures Attack, Kathleen Founds (University of Iowa Press) (Editor)

Non-fiction (Scholarly)

  • Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing, Daniel Robinson (University of Iowa Press) (copyeditor)
  • The Iowa State Fair, Kurt Ullrich (University of Iowa Press) (copyeditor)

Published works

THE MISSOURI REVIEW: Wildflowers of the Western Chaparral

ADVENTURE SPORTS JOURNAL: Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, (2000 to 2008)

ADVENTURE SPORTS JOURNAL: Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, (2000 to 2008)

... Mr. Lohnert acts as though he doesn’t notice that home or its occupants whenever he passes by now, as though there is nothing there but a giant hole at the end of a short driveway to nowhere, even though they’ve been neighbors nearly forever. If any of them is outside their old moss-sided white double-wide, especially her, he will cro

... Mr. Lohnert acts as though he doesn’t notice that home or its occupants whenever he passes by now, as though there is nothing there but a giant hole at the end of a short driveway to nowhere, even though they’ve been neighbors nearly forever. If any of them is outside their old moss-sided white double-wide, especially her, he will cross the terracotta-colored road and then the ditch, walking right through if the water is running high, getting wet to his knees. Sometimes when he’s crossing, he feels the way an escaped prisoner from years ago must have, sensing the bloodhounds close behind, knowing he is barely a creek and a hillside scramble away from being apprehended. ...

ADVENTURE SPORTS JOURNAL: Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, (2000 to 2008)

ADVENTURE SPORTS JOURNAL: Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, (2000 to 2008)

ADVENTURE SPORTS JOURNAL: Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, (2000 to 2008)

“Fire on the Mountain—Ansel Adams and Edward Weston in Yosemite,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Redlining on the Anguish Index: The Velodramatic History of the RAAM,” Adventure Sports Journal

“High Peaks and Deep Canyons: Reg Lake, Royal Robbins and Doug Tompkins take the Triple Crown,” Adventure Sports Journal

“On the Boat with the Pelagic Shar

“Fire on the Mountain—Ansel Adams and Edward Weston in Yosemite,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Redlining on the Anguish Index: The Velodramatic History of the RAAM,” Adventure Sports Journal

“High Peaks and Deep Canyons: Reg Lake, Royal Robbins and Doug Tompkins take the Triple Crown,” Adventure Sports Journal

“On the Boat with the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation,” Adventure Sports Journal

“The Great Stuntman: Warren Miller,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Scuba Diving with the Under Toad,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Scuba Diving for Neanderthals,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Summer of 1996: Mountain Biking Hits the Olympics,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Adventure Flashback: First Descents of Rivers in Northern Pakistan,” Adventure Sports Journal

“First Descents down the Grand Canyon by John Wesley Powell and His team,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Turn up the Volume! Can it get Any Higher?” Adventure Sports Journal

“Liquid Lifestyles: Aerated,” Adventure Sports Journal

“The Subterraneans,” Adventure Sports Journal

“The Day Otis Barton and William Beebe Descended a Half-Mile into the Deep Blue Sea,” Adventure Sports Journal

“ A Beginner’s Guide to Freefall,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Dancing on the Tuolumne with Two Left Oars,” Adventure Sports Journal

“The Day the Duke (Kahanamoku) Brought Surfboards to the Rescue,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Dancing on the Tuolumne with Two Left Oars,” Adventure Sports Journal

“Rick Hunter: Modest Machinist,” Adventure Sports Journal

“One Wheel Will Do, Thanks,” Adventure Sports Journal 

“A Wimp’s Guide to Adventure Travel,” Adventure Sports Journal


FINE ARTS WORK CENTER: ShankPainter

Issue #55

Excerpts from novel-in-progress, Head of the Famous Bandit (Begins at 27:00)


Issue #56

Excerpts from novel-in-progress, Head of the Famous Bandit


METRO SANTA CRUZ/SILICON VALLEY

“Rock Star: Zen and the Art of Climbing,” Metro Santa Cruz

“Elkhorn’s Odyssey,” and “Sloughing the Dragon,” Metro Silicon Valley

“All Due Respect,” Metro Santa Cruz

“The Future’s So Bright,” and “Beam Me Up,” Metro Silicon Valley

“Water Hazard,” Metro Santa Cruz


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