PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter
Minneapolis: Mid-List Press. (2000).


ESSAYS

"At Forty-Five" The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine (14 January 1996): 20-1. (Reprinted in Woven on the Wind, Houghton Mifflin, 2001.)

"Beacons" Single Mother's Companion, Ed. Marsha R. Leslie. Seattle: Seal Press (1994): 79-93.

"Dad" Plainswoman10 (November 1986): 8-9.

“Daytime Sleep” Flint Hills Review 7 (2002): 83-91.

"Dirt" Apalachee Quarterly 40/41 (Spring 1994): 128-37.

“Disappearances” Stories from Where We Live—The Great North American Prairie,

Ed. Sara St. Antoine. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions (2001): 145-155.

"Distances" Midwest Living 4 (October 1990): 56-9.

"A Girlhood" The Iowa Review 25 (Fall 1995): 126-144.

"The Gleaners" Northern Lights12 (Summer 1997): 29-32.

"A Guy Could" Azorean Express 2 (1985): 5. (Reprinted in Leaning into the Wind,

Houghton Mifflin, 1997.)

"House Dreams" North Dakota Quarterly 62 (Winter 1994-95): 82-92.

"Housewives, Fieldhusbands" Connecting, Ed. Lee Gutkind. New York: Tarcher (1998): 118-134.

"In the Wake of a Cowboy" Northern Lights14 (Winter 1999): 21-4.

“Inside Spaces” Northern Lights 14 (Winter 2000): 24-26.

"Marrying Money" The Missouri Review18 (Spring 1994): 56-66.

"Nick's Door" Between Mothers and Sons, Ed. Patricia Stevens. New York: Scribners (1999):

“Night in the Mojave” Michigan Quarterly Review(Winter 2001): 153-165.

"Reaching Down" The Fourth Genre 1 (Winter 1999): 80-88.

"Thanksgiving on the Plains" Iowa Woman 11 (Autumn 1991): 39-43.

“Turn Off the Spigots” Prairie Writers Circle syndicated column. (May 2005)


SHORT STORIES

"Blossoming" Sistersong.2 (Winter 1995): 4-16.

"Night Ride" Farmer's Market 10 (Spring/Summer 1993): 129-41.

"You Ain't No Cowboy" California Horse Review 22 (March & April, 1985): 132-6 & 84-6. (Reprinted

in Las Vegas Review Journal 25, November 16, 1986.)


INTERVIEWS

National Council of Teachers "Life in the Trenches: Perspectives from Five Writing Programs," Colors of a

of English Different Horse: Rethinking How We Teach Creative Writing. Ed. Wendy

Bishop. National Council of Teachers of English (1994): 35-53.

Western Literature Association “Western Autobiography and Memoir: A Panel of Writers, Western American

Literature Special Issue (Summer 2002): 150-169.


ARTICLE

"A Mustang Remuda for the Seven U-Bar" Las Vegas Review Journal 26 (February 22, 1987): 4-5CC. (Reprinted in Horse and Rider, 1987.)


EDUCATION

M.A. in Nonfiction August 1993, The University of Iowa

M.F.A. in Fiction August 1992, The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop

B. A. in English May 1988, The University of Iowa

TEACHING, PRESENTING, AND GROUP FACILITATING

Featured Reader
Prairie Voices Series, South Dakota Humanities Council, October, 2002; Western Literature Association Conference, Omaha, NE, October 2001; Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, March 2001.

Panel
Salt Lake City Book Fair, September 2000; Words Worth, Cheyenne, WY, March 2001; Western Literature Association Conference, Omaha, NE, October 2001; “Meet the Authors,” International Women’s Writing Guild Big Apple Writing Workshop, New York City, April 2001; Rocky Mountain Book Festival, March 2001.

Guest Readings and Workshops, 1996-2004
Book Shop, Sheridan, WY; University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Ucross Foundation, Sheridan, WY; The Writer’s Voice, Billings, MT; South Dakota Book Festival, Deadwood; University of Iowa Elderhostel, Iowa City, IA; Wasatch Writing Retreat, Alta, UT; University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa City, IA; Wyoming Writing Project: Cheyenne, Laramie, and Spear-O-Wigwam Retreat in the Bighorn Mountains; Casper College ARTCORE, Casper, WY; Tattered Cover, Denver, CO; Rocky Mountain Book Festival; Wyoming Book Fest, University of Iowa; Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA; University of Nebraska, Omaha; Washburn University, Topeka, KS; Steamboat Writers Conference, Steamboat Springs, CO; Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, WY; Second Story Books, Laramie, WY; Chickering Bookstore, Laramie, WY; Old Fossil Museum, Kemmerer, WY; Wyoming English Conference; Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS.

University Teaching
1988-1993, University of Iowa Teaching Assistant: Rhetoric, Writing Lab tutoring, and Expository Writing; 1993-1996, University of Wyoming Lecturer in Introduction to Literature, Critical Reading and Writing, and Freshman Composition, and Writing Center tutoring.

Book Discussion Groups
Wyoming Humanities Council. Five Book Discussion Groups, Newcastle, Encampment, and Laramie, 1997-1999. University of Wyoming Women's Book Group (February 1995): Teresa Jordan's Riding the White Horse Home.

Speaking Engagements
“Generation to Generation or Day to Day? – A High Plains Farmer Talks About Water,” Great Plains Symposium, Wichita, KS (March 2003); “The Land, Written in a Woman’s Hand,” Wyoming Council for the Humanities Speaker's Bureau (six presentations in 1997): "Women Writing the Land”; The Mind/Body Connection, University of Wyoming (March 1995); “The Artist and the Midwest,” Davenport Museum of Art (May 1992).

Conference Presentations
Ogallala Commons Conferences (Sept. 2003, Oct. 2004, Feb. 2005); Wyoming Conference on English (June 1995): "Disinterring Critical Thought: Teaching Critical Reading and Writing Using Harper's Magazine”; The Western Mosaics Conference (March 1995): "Cohabiting Nations: When the Colonist and the Native Stories Fuse"; Writing Centers Association, Ball State University (March 1993): “Mining Memory: Helping Students Write about What Matters”; Medieval Association of the Midwest (1988): "The Odyssey of Erec and Enide"

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