Education

Woodberry Forest School, 1980
[website: www.woodberry.org]

B.A. cum laude Davidson College, 1984
[website: www.davidson.edu]

M.F.A. Vermont College of Norwich University, 1997
[website: www.tui.edu/vermontcollege]

 

Positions

Summit School, Writer in Residence, 2002–present
[website: www.summitschool.com]

Lewis Carroll Society of North America

President, 1990–1994;

Chairman, International Lewis Carroll Conference, 1994;

Editor, Knight Letter 1990–1994 (author of numerous articles);

Chairman, Publications Committee, 1994–2004;

Series Editor, The Complete Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll, 1994–present.

New York University
Editorial board of Lewis Carroll Website Project, 1997–99.

The Writer's Place, Kansas City, MO
Taught memoir writing (1998).

Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
Taught creative writing and memoir writing in the extension program, 1995–1997.

Writers in Schools Program, Kansas City, MO
Taught memoir writing in the Writers in Schools program at two inner city high schools (1996).

 

Papers Delivered

Lewis Carroll Society of North America
(Winston-Salem, 1989; Los Angeles, 1998, New York 1999, Boston 2003)

Heart of America Writer's Conference, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (1996, 1998).

Lewis Carroll Society, London (1997)

Smithsonian Institution Campus on the Mall, Washington, DC (1993)

First International Lewis Carroll Conference, Oxford, England (1989)

Informal talks and class sessions

Forsyth County Library Association (Winston-Salem)

Queens College (Charlotte)

Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem)

Richmond (VA) Public Library

Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, MD)

Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, KS)

Reynolda House Museum of American Art (Winston-Salem)

Summit School (Winston-Salem)