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prose and poetry aims to help people gain a better understanding of
themselves, their environment, and others. Her literary nonfiction
book, Bloodsisters, was a finalist for the Bakeless Literary
Publication Prize and the James Jones Fellowship and won the Lewis and Clark Discovery Prize and the Delaware Press Association First Place Award for biography/nonfiction. In March 2008, her book, Teaching Troubled Youth: A Practical Pedagogical Approach was published. On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers will be published August 2008, by the University of Delaware Press. In June 2005, her essay "Wholeness
and the Short Story" was published in Writers on Writing:
Short Story Writers and their Art.
A graduate of the University of Delaware and Temple University, she
has earned fellowships in poetry and fiction from the Delaware Division
of the Arts. Her paper, The White Gaze: Defining Blacks in American
Short Fiction, was presented at the 6th International Conference
of the Short Story in English at University of Iowa and published.
She has read at the 7th 8th, 9th, and 10th conferences. In summer, 2010, she will read at the 11th conference in Toronto, Canada. Her recently published interviews were conversations with poets Rita Dove and Fleda Brown. Currently, she teaches literature and writing at Wilmington College, and is a
fiction editor for The Journal of Caribbean Literatures. In
her spare time she works with at-risk teenagers in the Boys & Girls
Clubs of Delaware's Pegasus ArtWorks program, and is coordinator of various writing conferences throughout Delaware..
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