awards and fellowships
2013, Subito Press Book Award, Winner
2013, Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2012, Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2009, New American Press Chapbook
Competition, Winner
2008, X. J. Kennedy Award in Poetry, Texas Review Press,
Winner
2008, Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for
the Arts
2007, Runner-up, American Literary Review Poetry
Contest
2006, Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2006, Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest, First
Place
2006, Hill-Stead Museum Sunken Garden Poetry Competition,
Winner
2005, Distinguished Poet-in-Residence, Wichita State
University, Kansas
2003, Fellowship in Poetry, New Jersey State Council on
the Arts
1999, Pushcart Prize, Vol. XXIV
1998, Charles Angoff Award, The
Literary Review
1997, National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowship in Poetry
1997, American Literary Review Poetry Contest
1996, Chelsea Award for Poetry
1994, Fellowship in Poetry, New Jersey State Council on
the Arts
1994, Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1993, Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1993, Grant, Poets & Writers, teaching
1992, Fourth Annual Kenyon Review Award for Literary
Excellence
1992‑93, Special Mention, Pushcart
Prize XVII
1991, Brittingham Prize for
Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press
1990, Judith's Room Emerging Talent Competition
1990, Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence for
Emerging Writers
1990, Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Fellowship:
Dodge Foundation
1989, Robert H. Winner Award (Co‑winner), Poetry Society of
America
1989, Open Voice Award: Poetry, Writers Voice, West Side Y,
NY, NY
1989, Fellowship in Poetry, New Jersey State Council on the
Arts
1989, Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation/Department
of Higher Education, and grant: College Foundation, Ramapo
College of New Jersey, Summer Institute Series for New Jersey Faculty
1988, Eve of St. Agnes Award, Negative Capability,
Mobile, AL
1988, Ruth Lake Memorial Award, Runner‑up, Poetry Society of
America, NY
1987, Ruth Lake Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America,
New York, NY
1986‑87, Writer‑in‑Residence, Rockland Center for the Arts,
West Nyack, NY
1986, Washington Prize in Poetry, Word Works Inc.,
Washington, DC
1986, Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, Residency
1986, Grant, Poets & Writers, Inc., New York, NY, Teaching
1985, Fellowship in Prose, New Jersey State Council on the
Arts
1985, Cecil Hackney Literary Award, Birmingham‑Southern
College
1980, Milton Award, San Mateo County Arts Council, CA
1978, Wings Award
positions held
2014, Poet-in-Residence, The Betsy
Writer's Room, Miami, FL
2014, Panelist, AWP Conference, Seattle,
WA
2010 present, Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, low-residency MA in Creative
Writing and Literature for Educators (gradwriting.fdu.edu)
2001 present, Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, low-residency MFA in Creative
Writing Program (mfa.fdu.edu)
2014
present, Core Faculty, Winter Prose and Poetry
Getaway of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and
Murphy Writing Seminars
2012
present, Associate Editor, Serving
House Press
2009 2010,
Columnist, Tiferet Online, Writing Poetry
2007 2014, Poetry
Editor, The Literary Review,
Madison, NJ
2006 2007,
Contributing Editor, The Literary Review, Madison, NJ
2005, Distinguished
Poet-in-Residence, Wichita State University, KS
2003 2006, Poetry
Editor, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature,
Peapack, NJ
2003, Grants Panelist,
Artists in Education, Artistic Excellence, New Jersey State
Council on the Arts
1997 2002, Assistant
Poetry Coordinator, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation,
Morristown, NJ
2002, Grants Panelist,
Maryland State Council on the Arts, Fellowships
2000, Grants Panelist,
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Fellowships
1999, Panelist, New
Jersey State Council on the Arts Public Meeting, Englewood,
NJ
1999, Grants Panelist,
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Arts 2000 Project
1998, Grants Panelist,
Projects Serving Artists, New Jersey State Council on the
Arts
1998, Grants Panelist,
Artists in Education, Artistic Excellence, New Jersey State
Council on the Arts
1997, Grants Panelist,
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1996 1997, Adjunct
Professor, English Department, William Paterson College,
Wayne, NJ
1997, Grants Panelist,
Artistic Evaluation, AIE, New Jersey State Council on the
Arts
1987 1997, Visiting
Poet, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
1996, Grants Panelist,
Artistic Evaluation, AIE, New Jersey State Council on the
Arts
1994 2014, Core Faculty, Winter Prose
and Poetry Getaway, Murphy Writing Seminars
1989 1993, Adjunct
Professor, Creative Writing, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
1992 1993, Committee
Chairperson, Graduate Division, Antioch University, School
for Adult and Experiential Learning, Yellow Springs, Ohio
(Sally Lipton Derringer)
1989 1991, Visiting
Poet, Artist‑in‑the‑Schools, Residency Program, Morris Area
Council on the Arts
1990, On‑Site Evaluator,
Bergen County Dept. of Cultural and Historical Affairs,
Hackensack, NJ
1989, On‑Site Evaluator,
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1987, Consultant Reader,
PMLA, Modern Language Association
1985 1989, Consultant
(Residencies), Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
1985 to 1995, Creative
Writing Instructor, Rockland Center for the Arts, West
Nyack, NY
1983 1985, Creative
Writing Instructor, West Milford Community School, West
Milford, NJ
1980 1983,
Writer/Editor for Dr. Ryoko Winters
education
M.A., World and Comparative Literature
San Francisco State University,
CA (1981)
B.A., English
San Francisco State University,
CA (1979)
B.A., French
San Francisco State University,
CA (1979)
B.A., World and Comparative Literature
San Francisco State University,
CA (1979)
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