Education

Graduate, Class of 2021, Media & Medicine Certificate Program, Harvard Medical School

Ph.D. Transformative Inquiry, California Institute of Integral Studies

M.A. English: Creative Writing, San Francisco State University           

B.A. English, Rutgers University           

California Community Colleges Instructor Credential, Language Arts and Literature 

Academic Appointments

MFA in Creative Writing Program Faculty, Dominican University of California, 2017-present

Writing & Literature Faculty, California College of the Arts [CCA], 1994-present

Literature, Languages, Humanities Faculty, Dominican University of California, 2012-present 

Effective Communication Faculty, Make School, 2018-2021

MFA n Writing & Consciousness Program Faculty, New College of California, 2000-2001

Creative Writing Faculty, San Francisco State University, 1983-1985

Courses Taught

Graduate           

Advanced Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Workshops

Literary Theory I: Ancient Concepts for Writing Now

Literary Theory II: The Isms

Literary Theory III: Approaches to Literary Criticism

Undergraduate

300/400-level

Writing for Artists, Architects, & Designers

Creative Prose Workshops 

Art of Memoir Writing

Reading Creative Nonfiction

Literary Theory: Ancient Concepts for Writing Now 

100/200-level

Big History Through the Lens of Big Literature

Writing 2 [varying themes]

     Seeing What Matters

Seeing The Zeitgeist

     Appropriations

     The Brain and Art

     Opposing Forces

     Historical Novels

     Mexico in Writing

Writing 1

      The Individual in the World

       Health & Well-Being

Creative Writing Studio

        Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry/Drama 

CCA Extended Education

Summer International High School English & Design Program

Pre-College Creative Writing

Story Writing: Memoir/Fiction

Writing Travel Stories

College of Marin Community Education [Summer 2021]

Griefwriting