Summary of Duties:Teach advanced workshops, forms courses, and literature surveys for competitively admitted young writers in statewide arts magnet high school. Direct senior theses in Creative Writing and serve on thesis committees. Evaluate and mentor three full-time Creative Writing department faculty members. Direct recruiting and admissions processes for department of 40+ Creative Writing majors across six grade levels. Oversee departmental budgets and coordinate fundraising initiatives. Curate and promote visiting writers series. Direct outreach activities, including summer writing camps and a year-long Language Arts tutoring program for elementary students in Birmingham City Schools. Coordinate statewide contests for young writers. Create and update content for department’s on-line presence. Serve on various school leadership committees to develop and implement administrative policy and curricular advancement.

Writing Courses at ASFA:Fiction Workshop Poetry Workshop Creative Nonfiction Workshop Writing for Film Lyrical Forms: Words + Sounds + Images Lyrical Forms: Prosody Narrative Forms: The Art & Science of Storytelling Narrative Forms: Breaking Narrative Boundaries Creative Writing Senior Thesis Creative Writing Senior Practicum Literature Courses at ASFA:Contemporary Poetry Survey Contemporary Fiction Survey Contemporary Nonfiction Survey Special Topics: 21st Century Challenges Special Topics: Writing America Special Topics: Writing in the Digital Age World Literature

Summary of Duties:Provide editorial feedback on original manuscripts (poetry, fiction, hybrids).

Summary of Duties:Provided editorial feedback on original manuscripts (poetry, fiction, memoir), and wrote development and marketing communications on behalf of arts and educational organizations. Clients have included: Gorham's Bluff Institute, Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center, and various individual authors.

Summary of Duties:Scheduled, promoted, and helped produce community arts education programs in various disciplines, including dance, visual arts, music, creative writing, and storytelling. Wrote successful grant proposals and other fundraising communications, garnering awards from a wide range of public and private grant makers. Wrote, revised, and updated web content, e-newsletters, press releases, organizational history, and other promotional materials.