Specialization: Creative Writing/Performance, American Literature

Interests: Herman Melville, poetry & performance, literature & radio, suicide theory, transcendentalism, Theatre of Cruelty, silent film.

Dissertation: Suicide in the Fiction of Herman Melville

Recent Publications:

“Havris and Eli.” 60 Seconds to Shine Vol. IV: 221 One-Minute Monologues from Literature. Ed. John Capecci and Irene Ziegler Aston. Smith and Kraus, Inc. (Forthcoming, 2007).

“Landlord for Poetry: Bob Holman & the Bowery Poetry Club.” Elis Eil E-Zine (Forthcoming, 2007).

“The Tragedy in My Neighborhood.” Oddfellow Magazine (Fall 2005).

Balance Act: Poems and Stories. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2000.

Four stories. Gone (Spring 1998), 109-116.

Two poems. Sulfur 40 (Spring 1997), 93-4.

“Feeling the Air in Relation to How Much Light There Is.” Caliban 15 (1995), 146-47.

“Balance Act.” Exquisite Corpse (Fall 1995).

Major Advisor: Jerry Phillips