Instructor in English
Service-Learning Coordinator
MFA Arizona State University (1999)

research interests

Creative writing, poetry and fiction.

regularly-taught courses

• Fundamentals of Writing
• College Writing
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• directed studies in creative writing

I teach halftime and coordinate UMM's Academic Service-Learning program half-time. My courses include a service-learning partnership with elders in our community.

"For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought." — Audre Lorde

"As writers, we have to challenge ourselves to write out of the 'we' and not out of the 'I,' or at least to try to do both. The poems come out of the community. By sheer coincidence, luck, education, or a combination of forces, we simply provide the hand the moves across the page." — Demetria Martinez

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