Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet
El Cerrito,
CA
California US
Website:
Publications & Prizes
Creative Nonfiction
Anthology:
An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz (Ohio University Press, 2011)
Books:
By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives (New Village Press, 2010)
, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (City Lights Publishers, 2009)
, Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press, 2009)
Poetry
Anthology:
Solid Ground (edited for WritersCorps) (Aunt Lute Books, 2006)
Books:
Jump Write In: Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Communities (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
, Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin (Northeastern University Press, 2000)
, Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades (Stenhouse Publishers, 2000)
, In the Crook of Grief's Arm (Nehama Press, 1993)
, Songs in the Night (Nehama Press, 1988)
Prizes won:
PEN USA West 2001 Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction (finalist)
More Information
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Prefers to work with:
Any
Fluent in:
English
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Last update: Sep 19, 2016