Overview
I am the academic director of the Cornell Prison Education Program, a dozen-year-old project that engages Cornell faculty, graduate students and undergraduates in offering a liberal arts curriculum culminating in an associate degree at four regional prisons. I also teach writing for the program.
On campus, I teach "Reflecting on the Prison Classroom" and in the past have taught first-year writing seminars including "Writing and Sexual Politics: Stories of Female Friendships" and "Writing Across Cultures: The Individual and Authority," besides a multi-genre Introduction to Creative Writing. My short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, the Yale Review, Crazyhorse, the Massachusetts Review, and the New Haven Review.