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WRITING
An Exlposion of Stars: Laughing Dog Press, 2004 Living with All My Senses: 25 Years of Life on the Mountain, Laughing Dog Press, 2001 Fire from the Dragon's Tongue, Essays about Living with Nature in the Siskiyou Mountains, Laughing Dog Press, 1999 Weekly commentaries on Jefferson Public Radio, Ashland, OR, 1981-88, 1996-present Quarterly column, The Jefferson Monthly, Jefferson Public Radio, Ashland, OR, 1996-present Playwright, 1979-present 30 plays written and produced, including: - 21 for Applegate Youth Theatre, Applegate, OR, 1983-89, 1993-95Intersecting Tides (a depiction in music, dance and poetry of the history of the human relationship with nature), presented in collaboration with musician/sculptor Ela Lamblin, Ashland, OR, 1994 A Living Legacy: Soda Mountain Wilderness Area, video script, Pamela Morey Studio, Ashland, OR, 1992 Essays published in various magazines and journals including Pronghorn Anthology, 2002, Pronghorn Press; Intimate Homeland, Headwaters Press; The Trumpeter, KSOR Guide to the Arts; OregonConifer; West Wind Review From the Mountains above the Applegate River, a cassette tape of collected commentaries produced by Jefferson Public Radio, 1988 EDITING Balancing Act: Living with Fire in the Applegate, Applegate Partnership, 2002 Free-lance editor (books edited for published authors Lenor Madruga Chappell and Orville Camp, for TV personality Amy Belkin, and others), 1980-present KSOR Guide to the Arts, published by Jefferson Public Radio, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, 1988-1991 Forest Farm Journal, published by the Forest Farm Association, Grants Pass, OR, 1990-91 Auto Martin News, an in-house newsletter for Auto Martin Mercedes and Volvo dealership, Grants Pass, OR, 1987-89 SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Chautauqua lecturer, Oregon Council for the Humanities, 2002-06 Keynote speaker, Three Rivers Young Writers Conference, 1999 Other engagements for: Southern Oregon Learning in Retirement, Willamette Writers, Arts Council of Southern Oregon, National Forest Service (ecology conference), Josephine County Public Library, Southern Oregon Psychologists Association, Southern Oregon University, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass High School (guest lecturer), Audubon Society, Oregon Chapter Sierra Club. TEACHING Instructor, English literature (2002-present), Journalism and English composition, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR, 1984- present Guest instructor in writing for the International Masters Program in Social Work, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1998, 1999 Instructor, writing class for Communiversity, Williams, OR, 1993-97 Instructor, Young Writers' Festival, Arts Council of Southern Oregon and Medford Mail Tribune (sponsors), Ashland and Grants Pass, OR, 1995-00 Instructor, Young Writers' Festival, directed by Three Rivers School District, Grants Pass, OR, 1995-96, 1998-00 Very Special Arts, 1989-1996 Literary artist, Arts-in Education, Arts Council of Southern Oregon, 1986-96 Literature instructor, Southern Oregon Adolescent Study and Treatment Center, Grants Pass, OR, 1987 Teacher, Academy program for talented and gifted junior high students, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR 1983-86 Teacher in one-room schools for ages 8-15, Horizon School, Williams, OR, 1981-82, 1983-84; Trillium School, Ruch, OR, 1982-83 Instructor, English literature (as a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow), Pikeville, KY, 1968-69 THEATRE DIRECTOR Intersecting Tides, Ashland, OR 1994 Rivers Sing and Rivers Tell Tales, presented in collaboration with landscape photographer Larry Olson, Ashland, OR, 1997 4 plays written for student production, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR, 1992-95 Speaking of Peace, a staged poetry reading for the Artists' Peace Festival, Ashland, OR, 1987 Director and producer, Applegate Youth Theatre, Applegate, OR, 1983-87, `93-95; Siskiyou Drama Camp, Jacksonville, OR, 1988-89 EDUCATION MA, Cantab, Newnham College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1968 BA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (junior year), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1966 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, summer 1965 Certificat, l'Institut pour des Etrangers, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1964 HONORS Finalist, Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction, for Fire from the Dragon's Tongue, 1999 Honorable mention, Jackie White Memorial Children's Playwriting Contest, 1999 Judge, Headwaters' "Tall Tales and True" writing contest, 1998 Literary artist exhibitor with "Women-Kin," Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR, 1992 Marshall Scholar, 1966-68 Woodrow Wilson Fellow (honorary), 1966 Scholarship, Harvard University, 1965 Scholarship, Vanderbilt University, 1962-66 Phi Beta Kappa, inducted 1965 (junior year) Eta Sigma Phi (national classics honor society), inducted 1965 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Copy editor for The Applegator, community newsletter, 1997-present Oregon Chapter Sierra Club Executive Committee, 1985-99 Chair, 1995-98 Vice-chair, 1993-95 Secretary, 1993-95, 1999 Emcee and organizer: Oregon Chapter Sierra Club banquet, 1994, 1997 Oregon Chapter Sierra Club retreat, 1995, 1996 Emcee: Williams Christmas Show, Williams, OR, 1994, 1995 Volunteer drama activities in elementary schools |