Judy Lightfoot, PhD
Writer, Volunteer
Brief biography

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ACADEMIC DEGREES

• Ph.D. in English, University of Washington. Diss: "Marlowe's and Chapman's Hero and Leander and the Poetry of the 1590s"
• M.A. in English; B.A. in English magna cum laude, SUNY Albany

WORK

• Contract writer, Building Changes (current)
• Contributing writer and editor, Crosscut (current)
• Interim Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Greater Seattle, Seattle, WA
• Founding Head, Eastside Preparatory School, Kirkland, WA
• English teacher, Lakeside School, Seattle WA
• Instructor, Department of English, University of Washington, Seattle WA
  
  

SERVICE

• Founder and CEO, Freestyle Volunteer, Seattle
• Tutor, Post-Prison Education Program, Seattle
• Trustee, Plymouth Healing Communities Board, Seattle
• Tutor, Literacy Source, Seattle
• Teacher, ‘Family to Family’ courses, NAMI Greater Seattle
• Mentor, Community Mentor Project, WA DSHS, Mental Health Division
• Speaker, “A Family Perspective,” Thurston County Mental Health Court Training, Olympia, WA
• Keynote speaker, “A Family Perspective,” Criminal Justice and Mental Illness in King County: A Commitment to Change, Burien, WA, September 28, 2007
• Organizer and moderator: "Reading Matters: Seattle Voices for Rohinton Mistry," Town Hall Seattle
• Organizer, Public Marathon Read-Around of Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, Seattle
• Panelist-Reviewer, secondary education programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C.
  

PUBLICATIONS 1: ARTICLES & ESSAYS

• "Best of 2012: ‘Hard, scary, sad’: life at a highway rest stop," Crosscut, December 24, 2012
• "Tacoma’s McCarver Elementary helps boost kids and parents out of poverty," Crosscut, December 20, 2012
• "How nonprofits can thrive in challenging times," Crosscut, November 5, 2012
• "Federal prison rape law challenges state to do better," Crosscut, October 17, 2012
• "Crosscut: Incubating an ecosystem of citizen journalists, " Crosscut, October 4, 2012
• "Reporting from an Eastside mosque," Crosscut, July 20, 2012
• "Racial Profiling on Washington’s northern border?" Crosscut, April 24, 2012
• "‘Hard, scary, sad’: life at a highway rest stop," Crosscut, April 3, 2012
• "King County, Seattle sharpen tools for defending workers against wage theft," Crosscut, February 27, 2012
• "‘The very poor’ can climb out of poverty, but only if we let them," Crosscut, February 20, 2012
• "Seattle flailing in search for better police-community ties," Crosscut, February 13, 2012
• "Allen family: It was 20 years ago the foundation began to give," Crosscut, February 2, 2012
• "Judge rules in DESC’s favor on crisis diversion site," Crosscut, January 31, 2012
• "Families living in vehicles need ‘Safe Parking’," Crosscut, January 26, 2012
• "How a United Way event gets at real needs of the homeless," Crosscut, January 18, 2012
• "Seattle police: What they’re doing right with troubled people," Crosscut, January 12, 2012
• "Bright spot: Washington wins federal award for insuring kids," Crosscut, January 5, 2012
• "Best of 2011: Climbing out of homelessness, to Mount Rainier," Crosscut, December 25, 2011
• "One scene among million Washington residents lacking health insurance," Crosscut, December 20, 2011
• "Ex-prisoners give incarcerated parents’ kids holiday treat," Crosscut, December 18, 2011
• "Seattle process: Neighbors diverge on a crisis diversion facility," Crosscut, December 14, 2011
• "Elizabeth Warren leaves Seattle Democrats the gift of narrative," Crosscut, December 12, 2011
• "In Washington, floods are sometimes fought with fire," Crosscut, November 18, 2011
• "Mentoring: How it made a real difference for a Seattle gang member," Crosscut, November 14, 2011
• "Finding ways to bring our veterans back home," Crosscut, November 11, 2011
• "The Families and Education Levy: worthwhile progress?" Crosscut, October 28, 2011
• "Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration’ – at Town Hall," Crosscut, October 10, 2011
• "Hard times bite deep in Washington: Who will step up as the state steps away?" Crosscut, October 4, 2011
• "Keeping the book open," Crosscut, September 26, 2011
• "Sick and homeless: Seattle takes big step to intervene," Crosscut, September 21, 2011
• "Homeless students: rising fast, especially in rural areas," Crosscut, September 16, 2011
• "Cantwell pushes a new bill to boost low-income housing and jobs," Crosscut, August 30, 2011
• "Metro Transit: poor people stuck with the tab again?" Crosscut, August 30, 2011
• "Climbing out of homelessness: five men conquer drugs and Mount Rainier," Crosscut, August 23, 2011
• "Front-yard veggie garden in the city," Crosscut, August 23, 2011
• "Compassion 2011? King County gives landslide approval to vets levy," Crosscut, August 19, 2011
• "Don’t just do something. Sit there." Crosscut, August 15, 2011
• "In-your-face solicitations on downtown streets," Crosscut, August 11, 2011
• "How a local levy, up for renewal on Aug 16, has helped struggling veterans," Crosscut, July 29, 2011
• "A Father’s Day story: At the Beach of the King," Crosscut, June 18, 2011
• "Give Big day: A ‘flash mob’ of charitable local giving," Crosscut, June 17, 2011
• "Desperately seeking your soulmate, or your former self? Apps may be on the way," Crosscut, May 25, 2011
• "The story of psychiatric medications is all about progress. Isn’t it?" Crosscut, May 16, 2011
• "Some good employment news where you wouldn’t expect to find it," Crosscut, May 13, 2011
• "Gen. Chiarelli asks Seattle: What are we going to do about vets?" Crosscut, May 12, 2011
• "Robert Whitaker in Seattle to talk about more psychiatric drugs, sicker patients," Crosscut, May 9, 2011
• "Gregoire signs a bill of major benefit to homeless families," Crosscut, May 8, 2011
• "Union Gospel Mission training volunteers to help the homeless mentally ill," Crosscut, May 5, 2011
• "A budget-cutting Sophie’s Choice: Youth programs hit hard," Crosscut, May 4, 2011
• "Will Obama speak at a Washington high school commencement?" Crosscut, May 3, 2011
• "Fending off compassion fatigue: Community events keep Seattle helping Japan," Crosscut, April 30, 2011
• "Membership drive: Crosscut, I’m glad I ran into you!," Crosscut, April 15, 2011
• "Begging: To give or not to give?" Crosscut, March 30, 2011
• "Alfred reaches out, and his story can touch us all," Crosscut, March 24, 2011
• "Are you ready for the big one?" Crosscut, March 16, 2011
• "A flower on Alfred’s cactus?" Crosscut, February 23, 2011
• "Ending family homelessness: A tale of two systems," Crosscut, February 12, 2011
• "The Willard Suitcases: The lives they left behind," Crosscut, February 1, 2011
• "Race to Nowhere: Even good students finish badly educated," Crosscut, February 7, 2011
• "What can we learn from the struggles of Baltimore public schools?" Crosscut, January 24, 2011
• "Washington’s serious economic risk factors drive homelessness," Crosscut, January 12, 2011
• "Can scare tactics sell the state on mental health funding?" Crosscut, January 5, 2011
• "Best of 2010: Is Seattle’s writing curriculum too regimented?" Crosscut, December 28, 2010
• "Best of 2010: Homeless artist’s photographs capture quirky beauty, " Crosscut, December 26, 2010
• "Best of 2010: Gorgeous Italian men,” Crosscut, December 24, 2010
• "How is King County doing on the homeless front?" Crosscut, December 16, 2010
• "Learning to reap crops without raping the land," Crosscut, December 8, 2010
• "On the first day of Christmas, from Amazon to me: A big box of broken pottery," Crosscut, December 7, 2010
• "Preserving mental-health care for prisoners: a life-and-death budget issue," Crosscut, November 19, 2010
• "Save the land! Eat fish!" Crosscut, November 2, 2010
• "Foodies and others mourn the Estrella Family Creamery shutdown," Crosscut, November 1, 2010
• "Giving time instead of doing time, offenders save the city $65,000" (article with CrosscutChannel video), Crosscut, October 20, 2010
• "‘We’re doing experiments on poor children’," Crosscut, October 19, 2010
• "A Friends of the Seattle Public Library Flash Mob? (Shh-h-h, they’re reading!)" with CrosscutChannel video, Crosscut, October 6, 2010
• "Crosscut: Helping me learn to love the city that’s my home," Crosscut, October 4, 2010
• "Will the mayor give Nickelsville’s homeless a permanent site?" Crosscut, September 21, 2010
• "Washington gets some Race to the Top money after all, sort of," Crosscut, September 2, 2010
• "Urban Rest Stop’s 10-year track record: 29,000 served" (with CrosscutChannel video), Crosscut, September 2, 2010
• "Punishing the University of Washington for success, " Crosscut, September 1, 2010
• "Roosevelt’s Dilemma: How should a neighborhood grow?" (with CrosscutChannel video), Crosscut, August 13, 2010
• "Upside of a downturn: New neighborhood housing for the low-income" (with CrosscutChannel video), Crosscut, July 27, 2010
• "‘Walk Bike Ride’: Where the rubber hits the (oof!) road" (with CrosscutChannel video), Crosscut, July 6, 2010
• "Saying goodbye to a father who was never there," Crosscut, June 17, 2010
• "UW librarians go YouTube Gaga for research," Crosscut, June 8, 2010
• "Mental health Rx for jittery times: jitterbug!" Crosscut, June 4, 2010
• "Seattle city attorney rebuts mayor on tunnel cost overruns," Crosscut, June 3, 2010
• "Seeing Venice through the eyes of Mary McCarthy," Crosscut, May 5, 2010
• "Burgess’s Safe Streets package is more than a ‘crackdown’," Crosscut, February 26, 2010
• "Two agencies for street youth capture $7.7 million grant," Crosscut, February 23, 2010
• "A daughter’s Valentine’s Day story," Crosscut, February 12, 2010
• "American education: ‘A national Katrina’," Crosscut, February 12, 2010
• "A key value for charter schools: no empty promises made to kids," Crosscut, February 9, 2010
• "Local surgeon: ‘Haiti will have a whole generation of amputees’," Crosscut, January 28, 2010
• "Touring Prague: Dog-bit in Dejvicka,” Crosscut, January 21, 2010
• "Frugal Foodies makes its Seattle debut,” Crosscut, January 19, 2010
• "Unexpected ‘news’ from Nickelsville," Crosscut, December 29, 2009
• "Saying Yes," Crosscut Best of 2009, December 26, 2009
• "A sense of sin: A gift at Christmas," Crosscut, December 25, 2009
• "Touring Prague: Czech buses, the key to Kafka?" Crosscut, December 18, 2009
• "Street kids redeemed, one coffee at a time,” Crosscut, December 16, 2009
• "Danny Westneat’s homeless count,” Crosscut, December 10, 2009
• "What does it mean to be black in the Northwest?” Crosscut, December 7, 2009
• "Diverting ‘downstream’ dollars ‘upstream’ for kids with mental illnesses,” Crosscut, December 1, 2009
• "Crosscut’s eye on the invisible,” Crosscut, November 4, 2009
• "Is God violent?” Crosscut, November 3, 2009
• "Ending homelessness: How are we doing?"Crosscut, October 29, 2009
• "A transit-loving, car-hating, bike-riding progressive environmentalist votes for Mallahan,” Seattle Weekly, October 27, 2009
• "Seattle, toward a ‘MetroNation‘,"Crosscut, October 15, 2009
• "Shiga’s Garden: A story of sunshine and cooperation,” Crosscut, October 13, 2009
• "Homes, not handcuffs,” Crosscut, September 29, 2009
• "Death by 1033 cuts,” Crosscut, September 22, 2009
• "How a popular Seattle writer was labeled an anti-white racist,” Crosscut, September 21, 2009
• "Back to school homeless,” Crosscut, September 9, 2009
• "A Seattle daughter learns a California way,” Crosscut, August 30, 2009
• "Inside a tent city near Microsoft,” Crosscut, August 10, 2009
• "News from Nickelsville: Tony’s story,” Crosscut, August 3, 2009
• "Vonnegut’s village, and mine,” Crosscut, July 20, 2009
• "Dignity and pity in a tent city,” Crosscut, July 8, 2009
• "A narcissist goes volunteering,” Crosscut, July 2, 2009
• "At the Beach of the King: A Father’s Day story,” Crosscut, June 21, 2009
• "Two brothers, and a lifetime’s quarrel,” Crosscut, May 31, 2009
• "Gerald keeps his job,” Crosscut, May 19, 2009
• "Alfred gets to tell his story,” Crosscut, May 2, 2009
• "How about we talk, once a week?” Crosscut, April 7, 2009
• "A Nickelsville saga with a happy ending,” Crosscut, March 31, 2009
• "Get to know the real people in tents,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 11, 2008
• "Hofmann House for Women: Making a Home, Remaking Their Lives,” Washington State Psychiatric Association Newsletter, Vol XLIV No. 4, Summer 2007, pp. 5-6
• "Thinking Outside the Edtech Box: Using the Computer-Technology Debate to Help Teachers Analyze Pedagogy,” Independent School (NAIS magazine), Spring 2003 
• "Brain Drain: World-Class Profs Leave U.W." Seattle Weekly, June 7, 2001
• "Lakeside Tsunami: Bill Gates' alma mater erupts in controversy over mandatory use of laptop computers" (p 2 here), Seattle Weekly, March 22, 2001, posted at Arts & Letters Daily March 25, 2001
• "Richard Hugo House Opens With a Bang," Seattle Weekly, October 8, 1998

PUBLICATIONS 2: REVIEWS AND PREVIEWS

• "An award-winning poet learns how to let go” (interview of Christine Deavel, winner of the 2012 Washington State Book Award for Woodnote, with video by Jennifer Jones) Crosscut, October 31, 2012
• "Smacking down Seattle Overachievers” (review of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette") Crosscut, August 13, 2012
• "Can you be a human being after prison?" (review essay about the play This Wide Night), Crosscut, May 9, 2012
• "United we bicker? A sharp, hopeful look at U.S. potential" (review of Marilynne Robinson’s When I Was a Child I Read Books), Crosscut, April 13, 2012
• "Kathleen Flenniken makes poetry out of Cold War Hanford" (review of Plume), Crosscut, March 21, 2012
• "‘Making Mends’ at BAM: healing and more," Crosscut, March 9, 2012
• "Striking show on homeless families opens," Crosscut, March 5, 2012
• "SAM. puts two exciting acquisitions on view," Crosscut, December 20, 2011
• "The artful wildness of Woodnote" (review of Christine Deavel’s collection of poems), Crosscut, September 29, 2011
• "Surprising tactics won the vote for Washington women" (review of Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal’s book Winning the West for Women: The Life of Suffragist Emma Smith DeVoe), Crosscut, July 21, 2011
• "Spectacular questions: The paintings of Philip Govedare," Crosscut, June 1, 2011
• "A springtime feast: Wendell Berry at SAL, plus a nourishing course on sustainability," Crosscut, April 20, 2011
• "After tax day, time for poetry at Richard Hugo House," Crosscut, April 20, 2011
• "SAM films feature daring Soviet art and the endearing Jeff Bridges," Crosscut, April 5, 2011
• "A captivating ‘Hustle’" (review of Doug Merlino’s book The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White), Crosscut, March 31, 2011
• "Nick Cave’s ‘soundsuits’ at the Seattle Art Museum: a smiling, sumptuous exhibition," Crosscut, March 11, 2011
• "Tracy Kidder talks about writing at SAL Wednesday, March 2," Crosscut, March 1, 2011
• "Alice Ripley’s singing aside, 5^th Avenue’s ‘Next to Normal’ is smart, darkly buoyant," Crosscut, February 27, 2011
• "Issaquah native Brian Yorkey’s hit play ‘Next to Normal’" coming to Seattle,” Crosscut, February 21, 2011
• "‘3 Screams,’ by Seattle playwright Vincent Delaney," Crosscut, February 11, 2011
• "‘My Wonderful Day’ at the Bathhouse Theatre," Crosscut, January 27, 2011
• "The sharp, stubborn eye of Olympia poet Lucia Perillo, coming to Seattle Arts & Lectures" (review of Perillo’s collection Inseminating the Elephant), Crosscut, January 19, 2011
• "Claire Dederer’s first-rate ‘Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses,’" (book review), Crosscut, January 16, 2011
• "The question ‘What are you?’ haunts the girl who fell from the sky" (review of Heidi Durrow’s novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky), Crosscut, January 12, 2011
• "Words shaken and stirred" (review of A. J. Rathbun’s anthology In Their Cups: Poems about Drinking Places, Drinks, and Drinkers), Crosscut, September 23, 2010
• "Stephen Sondheim’s dark, fizzy Follies at the Moore," (brief about a Showtunes production), June 4, 2010
• "A Northwest internment story that still stuns the imagination" (review of Louis Fiset’s Camp Harmony), Crosscut, April 9, 2010
• "A cheerful scold about how things are made and discarded" (review of Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff), Crosscut, March 30, 2010
• "A hoot from the future" (brief about the play The Violet Hour), Crosscut, February 15, 2010
• "The Vancouver method: Treat addicts as people" (review of Gabor Mate’, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts), Crosscut, January 22, 2010
• "Martin Luther King" (brief about the book by Godfrey Hodgson), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 18, 2010
• "The Soloist: An extraordinary duet” ( review of the book by Steve Lopez), Crosscut, May 12, 2009
• "‘How I wonder how they are’” (on Dr. Delaney Ruston’s film Unlisted), Crosscut, June 9, 2009
• "A Book of Verse Spreads Holiday Cheer" (roundup review: Fairchild, Merwin, Muldoon, Voigt, Poems of the American West), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 20, 2002
• "Shocking: How Thomas Edison Helped Develop the Electric Chair" (review of Richard Moran's Electrocutioner's Current), Seattle Weekly, December 18, 2002
• "Mistry Cancels Tour" (Rohinton Mistry, author of Family Matters), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 6, 2002
• "Tragical Mistry Tour," Seattle Weekly, November 6, 2002
• Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides (author of Middlesex), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 25, 2002
• "Talk of Sea-Town: What a literary magazine can do that a novel can't" (Review of StringTown #5) Seattle Weekly, October 16, 2002
• Interview: Jim Lehrer (author of No Certain Rest), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 27, 2002
• "The People’s Poet: Does poetry have to be dumb to be popular?" (review of Billy Collins's Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems), Seattle Weekly, September 18, 2002; posted at Arts & Letters Daily September 19, 2002
• Interview: Eric Scigliano (author of Love, War, and Circuses: The Age-Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 16, 2002
• Interview: Michael Crummey (author of River Thieves) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 4, 2002
• Interview: Judy Blunt (author of Breaking Clean) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 22, 2002 (reprinted in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• Interview: Indu Sundaresan (author of The Twentieth Wife) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 22, 2002
• "Bring on the Bards" (article on Seattle's 2002 Poetry Series: Cornelius Eady, Robert Creeley, Heather McHugh, Jorie Graham) Seattle Weekly, February 21, 2002
• "To Tell the Truth" (review of Duong Thu Huong's Beyond Illusions) Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2002
• Interview: Alexandra Fuller (author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 1, 2002
• Interview: Gregory Martin (author of Mountain City), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 4, 2002
• Interview: Jimmy Carter (author of Christmas In Plains), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 7, 2001
• Interview: Kitty Harmon (editor of The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History, intro. Jonathan Raban) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 9, 2001
• Interview: Linda Bierds (author of The Seconds) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 12, 2001
• Interview: Gary Pomerantz (author of Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy & Triumph of ASA Flight 529) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 7, 2001
• "Skin-Crossed Lovers“ (review of Heidi Ardizzone’s and Earl Lewis’s Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White), Seattle Weekly, August 15, 2001
• Interview: Ethan Canin (author of Carry Me Across the Water) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 3, 2001
• Interview: William Wong (author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 27, 2001
• Interview: Sam Wineburg (author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 1, 2001
• Interview: Richard Russo (sidebar), author of Empire Falls, Seattle Weekly, May 31, 2001
• "Fiction About Slavery Finds Humanity Amid Injustice“ (review of Charles Johnson’s Soulcatcher), Seattle Times, March 25, 2001. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism vol 163, Gale Publications, 2002
• "Tressed Out“ (review of Tenderheaded: a Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories, ed. Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson), Seattle Weekly, March 1, 2001
• "Family Drama Full of Fight“ (review of Terry McMillan’s A Day Late and a Dollar Short), Seattle Times, February 16, 2001
• "An Impressive Array of Poets Coming to Town“ (article on Seattle’s 2001 poetry series: C. K. Williams, Adam Zagajewski, Claudie Rankine, Matthew Rohrer, Louise Gluck), Seattle Weekly, January 25, 2001.
• "Crossroads of Destiny” (review of Madison Smartt Bell’s Master of the Crossroads), Seattle Times, November 12, 2000
• "Busch Collection Shows Genius for Storytelling“ (review of Frederick Busch’s Don’t Tell Anyone), Seattle Times, October 15, 2000
• "How the Dead Live: With Much Ill Will“ (review of Will Self’s novel), Seattle Times, October 15, 2000
• "Life Lessons for a Country Girl" (review of Treasures in Heaven, by Kathleen Alcalá), Seattle Times, October 8, 2000 (review of Treasures in Heaven, by Kathleen Alcala), Seattle Times, October 8, 2000
• "Rhymes and Reasons: Books by a Trio of Established Poets" (review of William Merwin’s The River Sound, John Hollander’s Figurehead and Other Poems, Eavan Boland’s The Lost Land), Seattle Times, October 4, 2000
• Butterfly Burning (review - scroll down - of the novel by Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera), Seattle Weekly, October 5, 2000
• "Courageous Heroine of Sugar Island" (review of Ivonne Lamazares’ novel), Seattle Times, September 24, 2000
• "Two New Books Give Vital Lessons in Education“ (review of Diane Ravitch’s Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms and David T. Kearns’ and James Harvey’s A Legacy of Learning: Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools), Seattle Times, September 10, 2000
• "Seattle Poets Take You On a Journey of Words" (review of Alan Chong Lau’s Blues and Greens, Susan Rich’s The Cartographer’s Tongue, Edward Harkness’s Saying the Necessary, Molly Tenenbaum’s By a Thread), Seattle Times, August 27, 2000
• “Blackwater Lightship – Rich, Vital” (review of Colm Toibin’s novel), Seattle Times, August 27, 2000
• “Engagement Character’s Sensitivity Unfortunate” (review of Catherine Bush’s Rules of Engagement) Seattle Times, August 20, 2000
• “Black Rose is Inspirational Story” (review of novel by Tananarive Due), Seattle Times, August 14, 2000
• “Conditions of Faith Tackles Provocative Subjects” (review of novel by Alex Miller), Seattle Times, August 6, 2000
• “Summer Reading” (review of Blackberry Wine, by Joanne Harris), Seattle Times, August 4, 2000
• “Reflections Reflects African-American Life” (review of Deborah Willis's Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present), Seattle Times, July 30, 2000
• "Tree of Life" (review of Raphaël Confiant's Mamzelle Dragonfly), Seattle Weekly, July 27, 2000
• "Saying the Necessary" (review, book of poetry by Edward Harkness), Seattle Weekly, July 20,2000
• "Masculine Mystique: Are Boys the Losers in the Gender War?“ (review, Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men, and William S. Pollack, Real Boys' Voices), Seattle Weekly, June 15, 2000
• "Characters Lonesome but Not Deep" (review, Stanley Crouch, Don't the Moon Look Lonesome), Seattle Times, June 4, 2000
• "Dame and Demon: Becoming Madame Mao" (review of the novel by Anchee Min), Seattle Weekly, June 1, 2000
• "Love Book Overwrought but Well Worth Reading" (review, Thomas Lewis, et. al., A General Theory of Love), Seattle Times, May 21, 2000
• "Birth of a Joyful Noise" (lead Arts section article on Andrew Ward, his book Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, and his PBS documentary on the Jubilees), Seattle Times, Apr 30, 2000
• "Spring Rain" (review: Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours; Jane Cooper, Flashboat; Giacomo Leopardi, Selected Poems, tr. Eamon Grennan; and J. D. McClatchy, 10 Commandments), Seattle Weekly, Apr 20, 2000
• "By a Thread" (scroll down - brief on poems by Molly Tenenbaum), Seattle Weekly, Mar 2, 2000
• "Rhymes and Reasons: Seattle Hosts Poetry's All-Stars" (Philip Levine, The Mercy; Frank Bidart, Desire; and Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red), Seattle Weekly, Feb 24, 2000
• “African American Writers - a Diversity of Themes, Voices" (review of new novels by Bil Wright, Jervey Tervalon, Shay Youngblood, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, and Percival Everett), Seattle Times, Feb 13, 2000
• "Rails Follows the Tracks of Two Families" (review, Jeffery Renard Allen, Rails Under My Back), Seattle Times, Feb 6, 2000.
• "Abuzz With Words" (review, Swarm, by Jorie Graham), Seattle Weekly, Jan 20, 2000
• "Call Me Una" (review of Sena Jeter Naslund’s Ahab's Wife), Seattle Weekly, Dec 2, 1999
• "Troubled Lovers in History" (scroll down - brief on poems by Albert Goldbarth), Seattle Weekly, Dec 2, 1999
• "On the Bus With Rosa Parks" (scroll down - brief on a poem collection by Rita Dove), Seattle Weekly, Nov 25, 1999
• "Heretical Case Against Computers in Schools" (review, Clifford Stoll, High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom), Seattle Times, Nov 7, 1999
• "Tense Novel Probes Killings in Atlanta" (review of Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child), SEATTLE TIMES October 24, 1999
• "Pam I Am" (review of Pam Houston's A Little More About Me), Seattle Weekly, October 7, 1999
• "On the Road Again" (review of The Essential Basho, tr. Sam Hamill), Seattle Weekly, July 22, 1999
• "Ellison's Second Act: Visible At Last" (cover article on the posthumous novel Juneteenth), Seattle Weekly, June 3, 1999
• “The Calculus of Juneteenth,” (interview: John F. Callahan, editor of Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Seattle Weekly, June 3, 1999
• "On Love" (review - scroll down - of a poem collection by Edward Hirsch), Seattle Weekly, May 27, 1999
• "House of Days" (review - scroll down - of a poem collection by Jay Parini Seattle Weekly, May 27, 1999
• "Anatomy Lesson," (review of The Visible Man, a poem collection by Henri Cole), The Stranger (Seattle) March 11, 1999
• "Equipoise" (review of a poem collection by Kathleen Halme), Seattle Weekly, March 4, 1999
• "Emerging From the Wreck" (review of poet Adrienne Rich's Midnight Salvage), Seattle Weekly, February 4, 1999
• "Storm" (review of a poem collection by Judith Skillman), Seattle Weekly, January 28, 1999
• "Still Life in Milford" (review of a poem collection by Thomas Lynch), Seattle Weekly, November 5, 1998
• "Blue Willow" (review of a poem collection by Molly Tenenbaum), Seattle Weekly, August 27, 1998
• "Poetry by a Big Fool" (review of Sam Hamill's book Gratitude Seattle Weekly, August 20, 1998
• "Picnic, Lightning" (review of a poem collection by Billy Collins), Seattle Weekly, July 30, 1998

PUBLICATIONS 3: POEMS

• BOOK: Calling the Crow, Waldron Island, WA: Brooding Heron Press, March 1998. Four poems from Calling the Crow
• "Like Watching Water." Echoing Eyes, Visible Tongues: Art Fusion at Habitude (exhibition of paintings and poems), Ballard, Washington, November 1998 - January 1999
• "When I've Been Thinking the World Is Coming to an End," Green Lake Newsletter Spring 1997
• "Like Watching Water," The Poem and the World, III (Seattle, Washington: The Literary Center, 1994)
• "Minutiae," Fine Madness Winter 1994
• "Aquarian," "Long Distance," and "New Year's Day," Portland Review, Spring 1994
• "Incident" and "Talking in the Wild," Poetry Northwest, Fall 1992
• "Absolutes," Crab Creek Review, 1991
• "Husbandry," Bellingham Review, 1990
• "Anima," Spindrift 1990
• "Thanksgiving," Christian Science Monitor, November 17, 1985
• "In Tent," Christian Science Monitor, October 4, 1985

ACADEMIC CONSULTATIONS, WORKSHOPS

• Overlake School (Bellevue, WA), audit of the 5-12 English program
• Bainbridge Island High School (Bainbridge Island, WA), daylong session leading an English department redesign of the 9-10 program
• Seattle Institute of Psychoanalysis (Seattle, WA), six-week seminar, "Language in Literature and in the Therapeutic Situation: Analyzing Elizabeth Bishop"
• International School of Naples (Italy), workshop with all faculty K-12, "Critical Thinking and Writing Across the Curriculum”
• "Caught in the Web: Developing Best Practices in English Edtech," Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools(PNAIS), Portland OR
• Lakeside School (Seattle, WA), "Teaching Literature and Writing in the LEEP Program”
• International School of Prague (Czech Republic), 2-day session, "From Novices to Expert Learners: Designing a Student-Centered Curriculum"
• Weekday, National Public Radio (KUOW/FM Seattle), "Computers in the Classroom"
• "White Teacher, Black Literature" and "Turning Writing Into Thinking," PNAIS Conference, Portland, OR
• "Inventing Courses in Global Literatures," Pacific Basin Conference, Honolulu, HI
• Edmonds School District #15 (Edmonds, WA), half-day session for English teachers, "Turning Writing into Thinking"
• Bainbridge Island High School (Bainbridge Island, WA), full-day session for the English department, "Thinking Writing"
• "Inventing a Course in Japanese Literature," National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference, Seattle, WA
• Bainbridge Island School  District #303 (B.I., WA), 5-day "Summer Writing Institute" for teachers K-12
• "Studying the Harlem Renaissance and Their Eyes Were Watching God," Vital Signs 1, ed. James L. Collins (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1990)
• "Teaching Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior and "Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God," Washington State Council of Teachers of English (WSCTE) Conference, Bellevue, WA
• American Heart Association (Seattle, WA), 1-day staff consultation on writing for the AHA
• Holland Hall School, (Tulsa, OK), 2-day institute on teaching writing,
• The Bush School (Seattle, WA), weekly seminar in English teaching and curriculum

LITERARY READINGS AND APPEARANCES

• Kane Hall, University of Washington, reading from Seattle Poets & Photographers: A Millennium Reflection, Seattle
• Third Place Books, reading from Seattle Poets & Photographers: A Millennium Reflection, Lake Forest Park, WA
• KUOW/FM 'Weekday,' reading of passages from Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Seattle, WA, Juneteenth
• Vashon Island Books, reading from Calling the Crow, Vashon Island, WA
• Rendezvous Reading Series, reading from Calling the Crow, Hugo House, Seattle, WA
• Elliott Bay Books, reading from Calling the Crow, Seattle, WA
• Elliott Bay Books, reading from The Poem and the World, Seattle, WA
• Bumbershoot, reading from The Poem and the World, Seattle, WA
• Lecture, "The Life and Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop," Women’s University Club, Seattle, WA

HONORS AND AWARDS

• "Excellence in Journalism 2009" Award (First Place, Online Commentary) from the Society of Professional Journalists for "Gerald keeps his job," Crosscut, May 19, 2009
• "Seattle Artists Program 2001" Award, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA, October 2000
• "Excellence in Journalism 2000" Award (Honorable Mention, Arts & Criticism) from the Society of Professional Journalists for "Ellison's Second Act," cover story, Seattle Weekly Books Quarterly, June 3, 1999
• Distinguished Teacher 1993, Whie House Commission on Presidential Scholars
• National Endowment for the Humanities Teacher-Scholar Award Sept 1989 - June 1990 fellowship (“Modern American Poetry”)

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