Workshops & Presentations

State of the Forest installation, Environmental Impact II | James Museum | St. Petersburg, Florida

Readings:

Burnscapes: Art Discussion with Suze Woolf

Kirkland Arts Center, Washington 

October 19, 2021

REVERIES: Three Years of Willowtail Springs

Durango Arts Center  | Durango, CO

Saturday, October 14, 2017  

PLAYA Presents Open House

PLAYA | Summer Lake, OR

Saturday, December 12, 2016 

Coffee House Reading Series

Duquesne University | Pittsburgh, PA

Monday, December 2, 2014 

Indie Press Fest

Chatham University | Pittsburgh, PA

Sunday, April 21, 2013

The Outsiders: Fundraiser for Words Without Walls 

Unsmoke Systems ArtSpace | Braddock, PA

Friday, April 12, 2013 

Jam2Jam: A Collaboration of Creative Minds

1107 Greenfield Ave | Pittsburgh, PA

Thursday, November 1, 2012 

Fourth River Book Launch

 Chatham University | Pittsburgh, PA

Friday, September 14, 2012

Ligonier Valley Writers Conference

Westmoreland County Community College | Westmoreland, PA

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Word Circus Reading Series

Most Wanted Fine Art Gallery | Westmoreland, PA

Friday, October 28, 2011

Bridges to Other Worlds Literary Festival

Chatham University | Pittsburgh, PA

Saturday, October 23, 2009

Residencies:

Willowtail Springs  

Mancos, CO  |  November 5-20, 2017

Willowtail Springs

Mancos, CO  |  November 6-14, 2016

Elsewhere Studios

Paonia, CO  |  February 13-28, 2016

PLAYA Artist Residency 

Summer Lake, OR  |  November 23-December 18, 2015

Presentations and Workshops:

Landscape and Identity Creative Writing Workshop

Willowtail Springs Education Center  | Mancos, COOctober, 2023

Creative Writing Workshop

Willowtail Springs Education Center  | Virtual  |  May, 2021

Writing the Woods: Evoking Winter Workshop

Willowtail Springs Education Center  | Mancos, CO  |  February, 2020

Writing the Woods Workshop 

Willowtail Springs Education Center  | Mancos, CO | January, 2020

Writing the Woods Workshop 

Mancos Public Library  |  Mancos, CO  | 2018

Two Artists' Perspectives on Wildland Fire

 Community Lecture  |  Mancos, CO  | 2017

Art, Science, and Community Collaboration 

Climate Change Workshop and Planning Group

Rural Voices for Climate Change | Summer Lake, OR  |  January 4-9, 2015

Firestorm: When Bureaucracy and Wildfire Collide

Conference Presentation

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 2015

University of Idaho | Moscow, ID 

Beyond the Margins: Preparing Students to Write in the University

Three Rivers TESOL Conference, 2014 

Chatham University | Pittsburgh, PA 

Teaching Writing as a Cultural Construct

Three Rivers TESOL Conference, 2012

Duquesne University  |  Pittsburgh, PA  

Women at Work: Environmental Occupations and Their Stereotypes 

Revise The World: 2012 Rachel Carson Academic Conference

Chatham University  |  Pittsburgh, PA

Write Place, Write Time: Techniques for the Nonfiction Writer

Seminar and Workshop, Nonfiction Faculty 

25th Annual Ligonier Valley Writers Conference, 2012 

Westmoreland County Community College  |  Youngwood, PA

The Natural Imagination

Panel Discussion and Presentation

Bridges to Other Worlds Literary Festival, 2011

Chatham University | Pittsburgh, PA

Ecocriticism in the Nature Writing Classroom

Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, 2011 

Washington, DC

Reveries Exhibit

2017

Fourth River Book Launch

2012

Event Flyer

2019