Vassar College Department of English

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I'm a poet/essayist with teaching interest in gay and lesbian literature, Native American literature and environmental studies. I've been back to Costa Rica three times in the past twelve months with the goal of finishing a collection of poems I started over twenty years ago while living in Central America.  In addition to writing the poems, I've begun writing a non-fiction book length project which contends with understanding low income and immigration women's relationship to place here in Poughkeepsie and in Costa Rican and Nicaragua,.  Before moving in this direction, my publication record reflected an interest in fiction writing: “Naming and Other Tricks Of Learning” (short story), in WOMEN ON THE VERGE, edited by  Susan Fox Rogers, St. Martin's Press, 1999. “Lessons in Anatomy”(short story), in  BLOOM: QUEER FICTION, ART, POETRY, AND MORE, Vol.1, Issue 1, 75-86, Winter 2004 “The Day A Story Began”(short story), in COLORING BOOK: AN ECLECTIC ANTHOLOGY OF  FICTION AND POETRY BY MULTICULTURAL WRITERS,  edited by Boice-Terrel Allen, Rattlecat Press,  2004.“Lesbians in Poughkeepsie”(short story), in Best Lesbian Love Stories 2005, edited by Angela Brown, Alyson  Books, 2005.