Books:
- The Meager Life and
Modest
Times of Pop Thorndale.
A
collection of poems. Winner of the NFSPS
Stevens
Poetry Manuscript Contest 2006. NFSPS Press, 2007.
- Poets on Place: Interviews and Tales from the Road.
Utah
State University Press, 2005.
- Writing that Matters: A Rhetoric for the New Classroom
. Prentice Hall, 1999.
- Plug In: The Guide to Music on the Net. (With Ted M.
Gurley.) Prentice Hall, 1996.
Experience:
Tenured Associate Professor
Georgetown College, Georgetown,
Kentucky
Taught poetry and creative
non-fiction workshops, 20th century poetry, first year writing, and
British Lit sruvey. Mentored part-time faculty. Poetry editor, art
director, and webmaster for
Georgetown Review .
8.04-8.07
Director of Expository Writing
/ Senior
Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Directed and designed undegraduate writing program, trained and
mentored
graduate student instructors, and taught composition.
8.00 - 6.03
Writing Program Coordinator /
Associate
Professor
Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Directed writing program and taught composition.
6.99 - 6.00
Visiting Assistant
Professor
Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
Taught American lit.
6.98 - 5.99
Assistant Professor
Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas
Taught composition, American lit, Shakespeare, and creative
writing.
8.92 - 12.98
Tenure-Track Instructor
McLennan College, Waco, Texas
Taught British Lit and composition.
8.89 - 5.92
Instructor
Richland College, Dallas, Texas
Taught composition and technical writing.
5.87 - 7.89
Instructor (Graduate TA)
University of Southern
Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Taught composition.
8.85 - 12.86
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Southern Mississippi, 1990.
Composition,
American literature, John Keats, Creative Writing.
- M.F.A. The American University, 1984. Creative
writing
and American literature.
- B.A. Arizona State University, 1983. English.
Classes Taught:
- Freshman Composition / Expository Writing (basic to
advanced)
- American Lit surveys & upper level seminars
- British Lit surveys
- Shakespeare
- World Lit surveys
- Creative Writing: Poetry & Fiction
Editing Experience:
- Georgetown Review
, poetry editor. Current.
- Red Booth Review ,
publisher and editor. 1998-2006.
- Mississippi Review, editorial assisstant.
1985-1986.
- Folio, founding co-editor. 1984.
- Guest editor for single issues of: Georgetown Review,
Mississippi Review, and Hootenanny.
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Selected Creative Publications:
- “Night of the Pig,” Cottonwood 65 (Spring 2007):
21.
- “Jimi James, Breadmaker,”
Kiss the Sky: Fiction and Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix." Ed.
Richard
Peabody. Washington DC: Paycock Press, 2007: 72-76.
- “Bad History,” Virginia Quarterly Review 82:4
(Fall 2006):
209.
- “Second Marriage,” Antioch Review 65:1 (Winter
2007):
116.
- “Seams,” Connecticut Review 29:1 (Spring 2007):
11-12.
- “Losing Clare,” Nimrod 49:2 (Spring/Summer 2006):
209.
- “Tattoos,” North American Review 291:2
(March-April 2006):
20.
- “Breakfast,” Greensboro Review 77 (Spring 2005):
69.
- “Birmingham,” New Orleans Review 30:2 (Winter
2004):
79. Pushcart Prize nominee.
- “Map Reading,” North American Review 289 (Spring
2004):
29.
- “Satellites,” Hayden's Ferry Review 32
(Spring/Summer 2003): 269.
- “Texas,” South Carolina Review 36:1 (Fall 2003):
29.
- “Playing in a Band in Fantasy Land,” Gargoyle 47
(Fall
2003): 79.
- “Jimi Hendrix, Bread Maker,” Carolina Quarterly
54:
1 (Fall/Winter 2002): 84-87.
- “Manny,” “Meet the Neighborhood,” Mississippi
Review.com 4:6 (June 1998).
- “Wyoming,” Kansas Quarterly 26 (1995): 285.
- “Meetings,” The Ohio Review 50 (Spring 1993):
99.
- “Promises,” Georgetown Review 1:1 (Spring 1993):
25-33.
Pushcart Prize nominee.
- “Emily at the Playground,” “Hero,” “Reclining,” “How to
Throw
a Baby Chicken,” Mississippi Review 15:3 Spring/Summer 1987):
59-65.
My Coolest Shirt (formerly Nowhere), a collection of poems:
- Finalist - 2002 Backwaters Press Prize.
- Semi-Finalist - 2004 Blue Lynx Prize.
- Finalist - 2004 Winnow Press First Book Award.
- Finalist - 2004 NFSPS Stevens Poetry Prize.
- Semi-Finalist - 2005 Black Lawrence Press St. Lawrence
Book
Award.
- Semi-Finalist - 2006 Elixir Press Poetry Award..
- Finalist - 2006 Blue Lynx Prize.
- Semi-Finalist - 2007 Elixir Press Poetry Award.
- Finalist - 2007 Idaho Prize for Poetry.
- Semi-Finalist - 2007 Blue Lynx Prize.
- Semi-Finalist - 2007 University of Wisconsin Press Poetry
Series.
- Semi-Finalist - 2007 Black Lawrence Press St. Lawrence Book
Award.
- Semi-Finalist - 2008 Hudson Prize.
The Meager Life and Modest
Times
of Pop Thorndale, a collection
of poems:
- Finalist - 2005 Akron Press Poetry Prize.
- Finalist - 2005 Philip Levine Poetry Prize.
- Finalist - 2005 NFSPS Stevens Poetry Prize.
- Finalist - 2006 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Contest.
- Semi-Finalist - 2006 Akron Press Poetry Prize.
- Winner - 2006 NFSPS Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize.
Professional Scholarship:
click photo for
an article on Pfefferle
& the Expository Writing
Program
at Johns Hopkins.
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