Craft Presentations
“Challenging the seat of power: When antagonists threaten to take over a story, then what?” Northeastern Modern Language Association NEMLA, March 2019,
“Border Crossers and Crossings: Taking Risks in Writing Fiction.” NEMLA, April 2018
“The Beast Down Under.” NEMLA, March 2017, Panel: “The Coyote in the Parking Lot: Writers Invoking Animals in an Increasingly Wild World”
“The Uses of Memory in Fiction,” graduate history seminar (HIS 507) on “History and Memory,” Apr. 2016
“Gimmee Shelter: Creative Writing About Rescued Animals.” NeMLA March 2016
“Writing or Wanting to Write a Novel or Book-length Memoir—Strategies for Success,“ Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, June 2014
“Bringing In/Bringing Out Diversity,” Instructional Innovation Showcase, Cal Poly, February 2014
Conversations With CalPoly Authors, Feb. 7, 2014
“Where/What Fiction and Nonfiction Can Learn From Each Other: Dramatic Tension in Dialogue, and Moving Between Seen/Scene and Unseen,” Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, June 2013
“Shaping Scene in Fiction and Nonfiction,” Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, June 2012
“From Hickeys to House Burning, or Breaking the Patterns of the Master Narrative: Honing Nonfiction Craft,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Nov. 2011
“To Dialogue or Not to Dialogue,” Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, June 2011
“The Craft of Memoir and Creative Nonfiction,” Osher Lifelong Learning Seminar, March-April 2011
“From Hickeys to House Burning: Why Leaps in Creative Nonfiction Matter,” Spalding University MFA in Writing, Nov. 2010
“Writing Down the Body: Honing Fiction Craft, Making the Invisible Visible, the Silent Spoken,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO, Nov. 2010 and at SUNY Cortland, Invited Guest Lecturer, Women’s History Month, March 2010
“Writing As If Your Life Depends On It,” U. of Pittsburgh/Bradford, Oct. 2009
“Dramatic Tension and the Seeds of Fiction,” Feinstein College of Continuing Ed., July 2008
“Powering the Unseen in Fiction,” Emerging Writer’s Retreat, Stonington, RI, June 2008
“My Truth, Your Truth, and The Truth,” Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, June 2008
“Taking Place (and Time),” Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, June 2008
“Writing Fiction and Being Brave,” Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, May 2008
“Fiction 101, 201, 301, 401: Going Deeper,” Spalding MFA in Writing Program, May 2008
“Claiming Ownership Over Your Writing—And Your Life,” Spalding MFA, Nov. 2007
“Exposure and Reflection,” Spalding MFA in Writing Program, May 2007
“The Art of Character Development,” Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, June 2007
“Getting Started and Restarted.” Harvard Writer’s Forum, November 2003, Keynote.