Writing

It's less about writing every day or even chasing publications, and more about living a life of writing. I happen to be good at making sentences, revising them, engaging others about their sentences, and connecting people around literary art.

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Publishing

Imagine books as rocks across a stream, some steady and some slippery, leaping from one to another over an improbable career, publishing everything from chapbooks to photo books, scholarship to literature.

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Arts Administration

CityLit Project uplifts writers and readers across Baltimore and beyond. Since 2004, nonprofit CityLit has presented public programs, hosted readings by acclaimed authors, delivered writers’ workshops, engaged youth through creative writing, and grown a literary imprint. It will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2029!

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Teaching

I've always been a teacher: from guiding authors through the publishing process to showing young people that their stories have power. Today, I’m the director of Mason Creative Writing (BFA and MFA) at George Mason University.

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