PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

One Degree West:  Reflections
   of a Plainsdaughter 		 Minneapolis:  Mid-List Press.  (2000).  http://www.midlist.org/

          

ESSAYS

“Selling Out, Buying In”     High Country News.  (December 8, 2008)
   
“She Poured Out Her Own”   Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works, Ed. Laura Pritchett, Richard  Knight, and Jeff Lee.  Boulder: Johnson Books (2007).
   
“Daytime Sleep”  Flint Hills Review 7 (2002): 83-91.
   
“Night in the Mojave”    Michigan Quarterly Review(Winter 2001): 153-165. 
   
“Disappearances”     Stories from Where We Live—The Great North American Prairie, Ed. Sara St. Antoine.  Minneapolis:  Milkweed Editions (2001): 145-155.
   
"The Gleaners"     Northern Lights12 (Summer 1997):  29-32.
   
"At Forty-Five"    The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine (14 January 1996): 20-1.  (Reprinted in Woven on the Wind, Houghton Mifflin, 2001.) 
   
“Inside Spaces”       Northern Lights 14 (Winter 2000): 24-26.
   
"In the Wake of a Cowboy"     Northern Lights14 (Winter 1999): 21-4.
   
"Nick's Door"     Between Mothers and Sons, Ed. Patricia Stevens.  New York:  Scribners (1999). 
   
"Reaching Down"    The Fourth Genre 1 (Winter 1999): 80-88. 
   
"Housewives, Fieldhusbands"   Connecting, Ed. Lee Gutkind.  New York:  Tarcher (1998):  118-134. 
   
"A Girlhood"    The Iowa Review 25 (Fall 1995):  126-144.
   
"House Dreams"  North Dakota Quarterly 62 (Winter 1994-95):  82-92.
   
"Beacons"   Single Mother's Companion, Ed. Marsha R. Leslie.Seattle: Seal Press (1994): 79-93.
   
"Marrying Money" The Missouri Review 18 (Spring 1994): 56-66.
   
"Dirt"        Apalachee Quarterly 40/41(Spring 1994): 128-37. 
   
"Distances"    Midwest Living 4 (October 1990): 56-9.
   
"Thanksgiving on the Plains"   Iowa Woman 11 (Autumn 1991): 39-43.
   
"Dad"     Plainswoman10(November 1986): 8-9.
   
"A Guy Could"      Azorean Express 2 (1985): 5.  (Reprinted in Leaning into the Wind,
Houghton Mifflin, 1997.)

                    

OP-EDS

“Easy Pickens?”  USA Today.  (September 17, 2008)                       
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“Bleeding Land, Heating Earth for a Fill-up”     Prairie Writers Circle syndicated column.  (July 2008).            
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“The Environmentalist Within”  Prairie Writers Circle syndicated column.  (July 2007). 
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“Turn Off the Spigots”          Prairie Writers Circle syndicated column. (May 2005).       
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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 of English a 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.

 

ARTICLES

“Colorado Sustainability Road
   Trip”   		 The Furrow (Summer 2006).
   
"A Mustang Remuda for the Seven U-Bar"      Las Vegas Review Journal 26 (February 22, 1987): 4-5CC.    (Reprinted in Seven U-Bar" Horse and Rider, 1987.)

                                           

FILM

Television: The Enchanted Mirror Julene Bair, Producer (1981). http://www.zalafilms.com/films/tv.html

 

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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
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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.
   
Panels    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   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; Bioneers, Boulder, CO; Yellow Pine Series, Boulder, CO; Boulder Media Women, Boulder, CO.
   
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    NonFiction Now Conference, Iowa City, October 2007; Western Literature Association Conference, Boulder, CO, October 2008; 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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HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Mesa Refuge Fellow, 2007 http://www.commoncounsel.org/The%20Mesa%20Refuge
  • Jentel Fellow, 2005 http://www.jentelarts.org/
  • Ucross Foundation Fellow, 2004 http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/index1.html
  • National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, 2004 http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/04grants/Lit.html
  • Finalist, 2002 Glasgow Price for Creative Nonfiction http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/glasgow.html
  • 2001Women Writing the West WILLA award, Essay/Memoir Category www.womenwritingthewest.org
  • Wyoming Arts Council 2001 Warren Adler Award for “Best Short Story Written in Wyoming.”  http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/Literature.html
  • Finalist, 2001 Mountain and Plains Booksellers Competition, Memoir Category http://www.mountainsplains.org/
  • Editorial Board, Northern Lights, 1999-2002
  • 1998 Mid-List Press Nonfiction Book Contest Creative Nonfiction Award  http://www.midlist.org/
  • Bakeless Scholar, 1999 Bread Loaf Conference http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/
  • Honorable Mention, 1998 Alligator Juniper Nonfiction Contest
  • 1997 Neltje Blanchan Award for Writing Inspired by Nature, Wyoming Arts Council
  • Notable Essay of 1994, Best American Essays of 1994.  Ed. Robert Atwan
  • First runner-up, Missouri Review Essay Contest, 1994.
  • Finalist, Iowa Woman Essay Contest, 1994
  • Finalist, New Letters Essay Contest, 1994, 1995, & 1998
  • Judge:  Owen Wister Review Essay Contest, 1995 & 1996; Wyoming Arts Council Individual Artists Grants in Literature, 1994; Wyoming and Utah Arts Councils Artists in the Schools, 1994; Wyoming Writers Nonfiction Category, 1994
  • Finalist, Missouri Review Essay Contest, 1991
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Iowa, 1990
  • Special Writers' Workshop/Midwest Living Contest Winner, 1990
  • Scholarship, Edwin Ford Piper Award, University of Iowa, 1990
  • Scholarship, Writers at Work Conference, Park City, Utah, 1990

 


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