September
2004 -February 2006 Administrative Coordinator
First Night Worcester, Worcester, MA
As one of
two formal office staff members answering to a Board of Directors, this
is a key organizational position in the planning and execution of an annual
city-wide New Year's Eve arts festival. Duties include contracting of
artists and venues, coordination of over one hundred volunteers, coordination
of large mailings and databases, in-office cash accounting, and acquiring
of permits, as well as general office tasks.
2002-2003
Director/Organizer
V-Day Worcester, Worcester, MA
Organized two sold-out benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues
in conjunction with the V-Day Worldwide campaign, collecting over
$7,000 for women's charities, local and abroad. Responsibilities included
coordinating publicity and all press materials, coordinating locations,
rehearsals, leading writing groups, and directing actors.
2000-2002
Member of Board of Directors
Worcester Po8ry Project, Worcester, MA
As the governing body for the Worcester Poetry Slam and Poets’ Asylum,
the WP8P runs two weekly readings, has featured over three hundred different
poets from 15 different countries, has fielded a team to the National
Poetry Slam the past nine years, and has helped build a large poetry community
in the Worcester County area.
1999-2001,
2005-present Poetry Co-host, Poetry Host
Java Hut, Worcester, MA
Supported by WPP, the Sunday night reading series boasts an eclectic
mix of features and readers, and is the home slam for the Worcester
Poetry Slam team. Also supported by WPP, the Monday night series is
a forum for up-and-coming poets to share their work in a supportive
open mic. The reading series also carried a weekly theme slam and readings
from guest authors, as well as the occasional featured reader.
1996 - Present Owner/Operator
Doublebunny Press, Worcester, MA
Doublebunny is an independent press that serves the New England
area through poetry design, layout, and production of fine books and
posters. Doublebunny also supported Omnivore Magazine, a poetry
and arts monthly which, during it’s three-year run, published poetry
and articles by over 150 authors and carried a national subscription
base. In 2003, Doublebunny took its maiden voyage as a recording label
with the release of Daily Mouse's
CD single Gimpy.
Editing and Publishing
Co-Editor, Poetry Fly magazineColumbus, OH 1993-1995
Organization
Organizer, National Poetry Slam Providence, RI 2000
Organizer, Pride Celebration poetry reading, Clark University Worcester, MA
Host/Organizer, Luna Café reading series Columbus, OH, 1995
Local Organizer and performer, Lollapallooza music festival, “Revival Tent,” poetry events Columbus, OH, Cincinnati, OH, St. Louis, MO 1994
Competitive Poetry
Coach for Slam Teamfrom Worcester, MA 1998, 1999
Member/Local Organizer of Slamsisters, a national organization focused on proactive work for women in the poetry and arts community, national 2000
Tag-Team Competitor at the Taos Poetry Circus with Patricia Smith, Taos, NM 1998
Featured
Presenter
Sullivan Middle School, Worcester, MA 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001
Featured Presenter The Rectory School,
Pomfret, CT 2006
Featured Presenter
Monument Valley Middle School, Great Barrington, MA 2006
Featured
PresenterUniversity
Park Campus School, Worcester, MA 2005
Featured Presenter
PS
150, Tribeca Learning Center, NYC, NY (With
Dawn Gabriel) 2003
Local Organizer
of teen participation for
Words Alive events Hartford, CT 2001
Internship Sponsor/Mentor to Doherty High School student Elizabeth
Greenwood, Worcester, MA 2000-2001
Featured
Presenter Doherty High School Literary Club, Worcester, MA 2000
Featured Presenter for workshop with jazz-based
poems & art, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 2000
Coach of Teen Slam Team from Worcester, MA 1998
Workshop Instructor for Umass Dartmouth for Jerry Blightfield (with Rebecca Henderson) & William Nelles, Dartmouth, MA 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
Workshop Instructor for Poets’ Asylum Workshop Series, Worcester, MA 1997
Workshop Instructor for Words Alive, Hartford CT 1999
Workshop Instructorat Lorraine Womens’ Correctional Facility (with Celeste McCarty), Lorraine, OH 1994
Has
been published in anthologies Poetry Slam: the Competitive Art of
Performance Poetry, and Bottomdog Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology,
and will be included in an upcoming anthology of Taos Poetry Circus
participants (release, 2001). Has been published as well in periodicals
such as The Boston Poet, Pudding House magazine, and Ezz-thetic
quarterly. Of note are performance in the 1995 documentary film, Off
the Page (for Case Western University, Cleveland, OH), and 1995
appearance on NPR radio for, InfOhio. Has self-published various
chapbooks including, Mommydrum, Girlbutcher, All the
Missing Things That I Love,and Ark as well as a novella,
Grace in the Shadow of the Big Tree
Exhibition of collage works & paintings - Java Hut, Worcester, MA October 2005
Book cover illustrations & designs - Lethe Press, Mapleshade, NJ 2004, 2005, 2006
Book cover illustration - Wordsmith Press, Ann Arbor, MI 2005
BA in Russian Literature from Ohio State University, 1993
References available upon request.