education | experience | publications | awards | presentations
BA-- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill --Journalism and Mass Communication
Continuing Education -- Wilson Technical Community College -- HTML Website Design
MA--Master's degree in English with a concentration on creative writing from East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
CBS Morning News, guest appearance, 1986
Staff Writer, The Mountaineer Newspaper, Waynesville, NC, 1993
Contributing Writer, Public Relations Office of Haywood County Hospital, Clyde, NC, 1995-96
Contributing Writer, Builder/Architect Magazine, Asheville, NC, 1995
Staff Writer, Nashville Graphic Newspaper, Nashville, NC, 1996
Staff Writer, Wilson Daily Times, Wilson, NC, 1998
Public Information Assistant, Nash-Rocky Mount Schools, Nashville, NC, 1999
Communications Coordinator, Nash Health Care Systems, Rocky Mount, NC 2000.
--Honored for "outstanding dedication to the written word" during the Albemarle Literary Society's "Honoring Albemarle Authors," Barco, NC, 2006
-- Winner, Student Writer's Showcase, for one-act play Satan in the Shower, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.
-- Four writing residencies at The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC
-- Featured in 1995 high school textbook Understanding Mass Media, by William Jawitz.
-- Silver award for op-ed writing, "Extra Point" from the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of North and South Carolinas, 2001.
-- Silver award for op-ed writing, "Are You a Sherpa?" from the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of North and South Carolinas, 2003.
-- Silver award for op-ed writing, "What's in a Name?" from the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of North and South Carolinas, 2003.
-- Silver award for op-ed writing, "Never Give Up" from the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of North and South Carolinas, 2003.
-- Silver award for op-ed writing, "The Most Famous Person I Never Heard Of" from the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of North and South Carolinas, 2004.
-- Silver award for op-ed writing, "Getting What He Wanted" from the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of North and South Carolinas, 2005.
-- Silver award for op-ed writing, "Sweat the Small Stuff" from the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of North and South Carolinas, 2005.
"The Great Who? Delayed Entrance of a Main Character as a Narrative Technique," East Carolina University Research Week, 2007.
"Wanda Coleman and Poetry Maps" guest lecture, East Carolina University, 2006.
"Not in Silence, Not in Sound: A view of "third-worlders," paper presentation, TESOL Conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 2005.
"Character Maps," lecture for Southern Middle School, Aberdeen, NC, 2005
"Using Creative Non-Fiction Techniques to Breathe Life into Articles (the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test)", Fall Conference, Carolinas Public Relations and Marketing Society, Asheville, NC, 2005.
"The Heart of a Writer: Ideas and Execution," Englewood United Methodist Church Men's Group, Rocky Mount, NC, 2004.
"Throwing Bricks: PR and Journalism," Fall Conference, Carolinas Health Care Public Relations and Marketing Society, Charleston, SC.
"Writing Dialogue," guest lecture, Wilson Technical Community College, 1999.
Association of Writing Programs
Carolina Alumni Association
North Carolina Poetry Society
Carolinas Health Care PR and Marketing Society
Novels
Saint Jude, Tudor Publishers, 2001.
Leaving the Comfort Cafe, The Wild Rose Press, 2007.
Theatre
Satan in the Shower, one-act play. Performed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.
We Are Not Alone, play. Performed at the Tank Theatre in Rocky Mount, NC, 1997.
Customer Service, vignette. Purchased for commercial use by WorshipFilms.com.
Jesu of Fondue, play. Performed as a part of the NC Play Rite Series at the Nash County Arts Council.
Poetry
Winner-- NC Poetry Society 2006 Adult Poetry Contest.
Earned second place with the poem "Learning English in Four-letter Words."
"Simple Gifts," Lutheran Partners, 2001.
"One Word," The Poet's Pen, 1999.
"Wolves," The Poet's Pen, 1999.
"Hearing in Silence," Event Magazine, 1995.
Articles
"From Zero to Hero," Writer's Digest , June 2006
Hating Your Hero," Writing Popular Fiction- Writer's Digest Yearbook -- Aug. 2005.
Two articles accepted for publication in Writer's Digest, "Unreliable Narrators and the Readers Who Love Them" and "Dream On!"
"Extra Point," quarterly column for the Nash General Hospital Newsline newsletter--2001-06
"Clothes Make the Character," Byline, January 2001.
"Handling Depression," Evangel, 2001.
"It Just Dawned on Me," a regular weekly column in The Nashville Graphic 1997-98.
"Ten Tips for College," Event Magazine, June 1993.
Contributing writer for Builder /Architect Magazine, 1996.
Staff writer for several newspapers, including: The Asheville Citizen-Times, The Waynesville Mountaineer, The Nashville Graphic and The Wilson Daily Times.
Short Stories
"Dreaming into Action" and "The Recital" in Prism Magazine, 1988
Online Anthologies
Unreliable narrators as a literary technique
Theatre (writing, production, acting)
Southern literature
Kayaking
Shakespeare
Christianity in literature
Movies by the Coen brothers
