About

I’ve been a reading and writing teacher and a writer for forty years. I have a PhD from Syracuse University in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric specializing in the teaching and learning of writing, an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA from the State University of New York at Purchase.  I’m currently a tenured instructor in Binghamton University’s Writing Initiative.

I’ve worked with readers and writers all along the literacy lifespan. I’ve taught poetry to children in grades k-5 at The Tompkins County Publish Library and at Belle Sherman Elementary School, adults learning to read and write, high school, college and graduate students, as well as their teachers.

For the last twenty years, my study and practice has been focused on the ways that otherwise capable writers, students, and creators find themselve lost or stuck. I’ve developed an approach to writing and study skills that combines social support, structured work, supportive accountability, and self-regulation/self executive function strategies.

I’m the author of  Teaching Writing While Standing on One Foot (Sense Publishers). My poetry has and essays have appeared in many journals online and in print, including Writing on the Edge, Composition Studies, Ploughshares, The Sun, The Cortland Review, and Subtropics.