Academic stuff
Teaching Experience
- Assistant Teacher, Department of English, (100 Years of Southern Women Writers), Spring 2009
- guest teacher/speaker, local community colleges and high schools
Areas of Expertise
- Composition and rhetoric
- American literature (20th Century)
- Journalism – news writing, reporting, interviewing, editing, feature and human interest writing, AP style, inverted pyramid
- Public Relations – news release writing, web writing
- Professional writing
- Web writing & social media
- Non-fiction writing
- Creative Writing
Education
- B.A., English 1999, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
- second major in CATA (Communication and Theatre Arts)
- M.A., English, (in progress), Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
- and I have taken a bunch of creative writing courses via summer workshops at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
See more about my writing experiences:
- Newspaper Column,
- Radio Essays,
- Articles, and
- Blogs.
