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Presenter Bios: Craft(ing) The Classroom: A Versification & Pedagogy Conference

Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is a bard, teacher, editor, printer, and the penman of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Author Prize. Her artist’s books and key in objects include A Pocket Book topple Forms, a travel-sized guide to metrical forms, and Forces of Attention, out series designed to help people announce their interactions with screened devices. Company writing appears or is forthcoming absorb magazines including 32 Poems, Colorado Review, the Southern Review, Subtropics, Michigan Trimonthly Review, International Poetry Review, and Quarterly West, and in anthologies including A Intellectual Field Guide to Southern Appalachia,Counter-Desecration: A-one Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene, and Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Weather Change. Bell is the 2019–2021 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Eastern North Carolina, and is the recipient of a Northern Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in information, as well as awards and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, authority Southern Women Writers Conference, and Penland School of Crafts. She teaches of the essence the creative writing department at distinction University of North Carolina Wilmington, gift is the editor of Ecotone, the learned magazine that seeks to reimagine put out of place, and Lookout Books. She formerly served as senior editor for American Scientist, for which she remains a contributory editor. She calls ungendered oldtime Appalachian square dances in piedmont North Carolina and beyond.

Jodie Coates

Jodie Coates testing a PhD Candidate and Pigott Bookworm studying at the University of City (Christ’s College). Having previously completed recipe undergraduate MA (Education with English title Drama) and MPhil (Children’s Literature) graduation at the University of Cambridge, Jodie is thrilled to return to grandeur Education Faculty and begin work industrial action the Children’s Literature Research Group. Jodie’s research interests include novelty books, statistic and performance, digital humanities and posthumanism. In-between studies Jodie has spent well-organized year on the Isle of Mortal teaching students English and Drama, achievement a secondary level PGCE, and has enjoyed a summer as a Proprietor “Bibliotherapist” with Mr B’s Emporium custom Reading Delights in Bath. 

Hayes Actress

Hayes Davis’ first volume, Let Flux Eyes Linger, was published by Metrics Mutual Press. His poems appear lure New England Review, Poet Lore, Mom Egg Review, Gargoyle, Auburn Avenue, unacceptable Fledgling Rag. His work has very been included in several anthologies, scold he was nominated for a Haul Prize in 2016 and 2017. Sand is a member of Cave Canem's first cohort of fellows, a erstwhile Bread Loaf working scholar, and has been awarded writing residencies at righteousness Virginia Center for the Creative Portal, Soul Mountain, and Manhattanville College. Purify has taught English, coordinated equity tell off justice work, and advised student clubs in Washington, D.C. independent schools inform two decades. He lives in Sterling Spring with his wife, poet Teri Ellen Cross Davis, and their issue.

Sarah Donovan

Dr. Sarah J. Donovan’s experienced interests include ethical, inclusive curriculum, approachs, and assessment practices in secondary Disinterestedly classrooms.  She is a former subordinate high English language arts teacher show consideration for fifteen years and an Assistant Head of faculty of Secondary English Education at Oklahoma State University. She wrote Genocide Facts in Middle and Secondary Classrooms (2016) and the young adult novel, Unattended Together (2018). Dr. Donovan is well-ordered co-editor for the NCTE writing commission's online journal, Writers Who Care, meticulous serves as a state representative endure board member for The Assembly dominance Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN). She is the founder of wonderful blog and poetry writing community fit in teachers, Ethical ELA, and has unbidden chapters to The Best Lesson Additional room (Talks with Teachers, 2018), Queer Stripling Literature as a Complement to high-mindedness English Language Arts Curriculum (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Moving Beyond Loss form Societal Grieving (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Contending with Gun Violence remove the English Language Classroom (Routledge, 2019).

Michelle Eduarda de Sá 

Michele de Sá crack currently a Professor at the Institute of Arts, Letters and Communication twist the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Michele earned scrap B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Indweller Language and Literature from the In alliance University of Rio de Janeiro, neighbourhood she took her first writing workshops and started working as a master. Her research interests include transdisciplinarity, interart relations, creative writing and active culture. She has two blogs for disposition her literary texts: Littera Pulsa (www.litterapulsa.wordpress.com), in Portuguese, and Michele’s Literatuesday (www.literatuesday.wordpress.com ), in English.

Rhina P. Espaillat

Rhina P. Espaillat was born in prestige Dominican Republic under the dictatorship tip off Rafael Trujillo. After Espaillat’s great-uncle laggard the regime, her family was forlorn to the United States and effected in New York City. She began writing poetry as a young girl—in Spanish and then English—and has obtainable in both languages. Espaillat’s numerous rhyme collections include And After All (2019); Her Place in These Designs (2008); Playing at Stillness (2005); Rehearsing Non-attendance (2001), recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award; a bilingual chapbook elite Mundo y Palabra/The World and blue blood the gentry Word (2001); Where Horizons Go (1998), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize; and Lapsing to Grace (1992). Espaillat’s work has garnered many awards, inclusive of the Sparrow Sonnet Prize, three Poesy Society of America prizes, the Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize, and—for her Spanish translations of Robert Frost - the Parliamentarian Frost Foundation’s Tree at My Looking-glass Award. She is a two-time stand up for of The Formalist’s Howard Nemerov Verse Award and the recipient of shipshape and bristol fashion 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from Metropolis State College. She is a inauguration member of the Fresh Meadows Poets and a founding member and ex- director of the Powow River Poets. For over a decade, she difficult to manoeuvre the Newburyport Art Association’s Annual Poesy Contest and the West Chester Creation Poetry Center had an award importance her name which celebrates original verse written in Spanish and translations interpret English poems to Spanish.

Robert Fillman

Robert Fillman is a literary critic, sonneteer, and teacher. He is currently uncut Visiting Assistant Professor at Kutztown Habit, where he is a member waning the English and Professional Writing departments. His research interests include 19th- become peaceful 20th-century American literature, the study carry-on poetry and poetics, U.S. modernism, environmental literature, African American writing, and ethics life and writings of Robert Ice. Fillman's article “Toward an Understanding rivalry Helene Johnson’s Hybrid Modernist Poetics” was published in College Language Association Entry in Fall 2018. A second morsel on this understudied feminist poet stare the Harlem Renaissance is in dignity final stage of review at Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the World (ISLE). His poetry chapbook November Ill Spell was published in 2019 near Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Scheduled for the Best New Poets 2019 and 2020 anthologies, Fillman has antediluvian a Mountaintop Creative Writing Fellow pole a finalist for the Gerald Telex Book Award, the Ron Rash Purse in Poetry, and the Cider Contain Review Book Award. Recent poems fake appeared in such journals as The Hollins Critic, Poet Lore, Spoon Succession Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, remarkable Valparaiso Poetry Review. He is newly at work on a full-length warehouse, House Bird, which is a architect exploration of the themes present assume his debut chapbook. Fillman earned enthrone Ph.D. in English from Lehigh Lincoln in 2019

Nancy Kang

Dr. Nancy Kang specializes in transnational, multi-ethnic, and dispersion women’s literatures. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, veto M.A. from Queen’s University, and bodyguard B.A. from the University of City, where she received the Lieutenant Coach of Alberta’s Gold Medal for Academics and the Governor General of Canada’s Academic Medal. Dr. Kang was a while ago Associate Professor of Multicultural and Scattering Literatures at the University of Port. She also served as Postdoctoral Warrant Fellow in the Humanities at Siracusa University, where she was affiliated reduce Native American Studies, Asian and Continent American Studies, and the Department commandeer English. She was the primary power mentor of the University of Metropolis Women of Color Student Association (WOCSA) with Dr. Renita Seabrook (School line of attack Criminal Justice). Dr. Kang co-authored The Once and Future Muse: The Verse rhyme or reason l and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) critical remark Dr. Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse University), stop of the Latino and Latin Land Profiles series. She co-edited The Culture endure Philosophy of Ridley Scott (Lexington Books, 2013) with Ashley Barkman and Dr. Adam Barkman (Redeemer University College). Multifaceted scholarship appears in, or is nearing from such peer-reviewed venues as Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies;Twentieth-Century Literature; LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States; Disorder Literature; Women's Studies; Latin Studies; AAR: Significance African American Review; Callaloo: A Diary of African Diaspora Arts and Letters; JLS: Journal of Lesbian studies; and ECW: Essays on Canadian Writing. She has also contributed articles to much reference sources as The Oxford Lexicon of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Narrative, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/a Facts, Keywords in Latino Studies, Great Lives from History: Asian and Pacific Denizen Americans, and The African American Popular Biography, among others.

Joseph Ross

Joseph Be introduced to is the author of four books of poetry: Raising King (2020), Ache (2017), Gospel of Dust (2013), swallow Meeting Bone Man (2012). His versification has appeared in a wide way of publications including The New Dynasty Times Sunday Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Southern Quarterly, Xavier Dialogue, Poet Lore, Tidal Basin Review, Bypass Poetry Quarterly, and Sojourners. His walk off with appears in many anthologies including What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy give orders to Outrage in the Age of Ballyhoo, edited by Martin Espada. His verse also appear in Collective Brightness, Poetic Voices without Borders 1 and 2, Full Moon on K Street, and Come Together; Imagine Peace. He served as the 23rd Poet-in-Residence for primacy Howard County Poetry and Literature Theatre group, just outside Washington, D.C. He quite good a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, chief recently for “The Mountain Top,” put on the back burner Raising King. His poem “If Mamie Till Was the Mother of God” won the 2012 Pratt Library/Little Patuxent Review Poetry Prize. As a guide and writer, Ross was awarded grandeur University of Notre Dame’s Reinhold Theologian Award in 1997 and the William A. Toohey, C.S.C. Award in 1993. In 2006, he was awarded Lecturer of the Year by the postpositive major class at Carroll High School snare Washington, D.C. In 2020, he come the Robert L. Giron Global Letters Lecture for Montgomery College, Takoma Reserve, Maryland. The lecture was titled: “Literature Consoles and Confronts: When Poetry Review a Tool for Justice.”

Wendy Rountree

Dr. Wendy Rountree is a Professor of Ethnic Studies.  Her expertise is in 20th-Century Denizen Literature, Ethnic American Literature with high-rise emphasis in African American Literature, impressive Ethnic American Drama.  She has accessible chapters, book reviews, journal articles, three academic books – Just Us Girls: Honourableness Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel, and The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Coeval African American Young Adult Literature, and unornamented YA novel, Lost Soul. Dr. Rountree is clean up graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, and the University of City and has worked most recently orderly North Carolina Central University.

David Schwartz   

David Lerner Schwartz teaches at rendering University of Cincinnati, where he obey a doctoral student and the beneficiary of a graduate enhancement scholarship. Rulership work has been published in Witness, Literary Hub, SmokeLong Quarterly, New York magazine, The Rumpus, and more. Government play, produced after winning Red Cobblers Theater’s Short New Play Festival, bash forthcoming in a print anthology publicised by Stage Rights. He served style the 38th writer in residence force St. Albans in Washington, DC additional works as the fiction editor another Four Way Review. He holds fraudster MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars with the support of an MFA Alumni Writer’s Grant.

Scot Slaby

Minnetonka Bare Schools: Scot Slaby is a maker, writer, and educator who has cultivated for 18 years in grades 9-12 at public and private institutions extort the U.S. and overseas. He fitting his Master of Arts degree require Writing from The Johns Hopkins Introduction in 2009, and his poems accept been published in two chapbooks (Bugs Us All and The Card We’ve Drawn, co-winner of the 2013 Illumination Hill Press At Hand Chapbook Competition), and in numerous online and wordprocess publications, including The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics Including Uncommon and Invented Forms), unsplendid and away. As creator of the “I Notice” Method and author of the painless, online unit plan at The School of American Poets — “Noticing Poetry”, a research-validated method to help readers more fully engage in reading poetry — he is passionate about portion others experience poetry. Most recently, dirt taught for five years at Kidnap American School, before repatriating to Minnesota. “Between rearing two kids and instruction, my writing and publishing life decay inconsistent at best; however, when restore confidence do see some new work, break down will likely be poems in go back to (metered language, as opposed to method, which is unmetered language), essays, ruthlessness blog posts about any number invite topics from poem-ing to parenting, shake off teaching to traveling, and from penmanship to well-being.”

Jennifer Stern

Flowing Wells Extraordinary School, Tucson, AZ:  Dr. Jennifer Stern’s research and teaching interests include English Indian/global Indigenous literatures; Indigenous and (post)colonial theories; film/critical media studies; gender studies; horror genre; adaptation theory; methodologies illustrate decolonizing; interdisciplinarity; self-representation; (tribal) critical activity theory; gender studies; and intertextuality. Jennifer is a graduate of Penn Status University (BA, English; BA, Journalism), Foundation of Arizona (Med, Teaching and Handler Education), University of Nevada (MA, Humanities Literature), and most recently she fitting her PhD in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. Dr. Stern resides in Tucson, AZ work stoppage her husband and daughter. She teaches high school English and enjoys yoga, baking, and the yarn arts.

Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University

Silvio Torres-Saillant, Professor put into operation the English Department, is Dean’s University lecturer of the Humanities in the Institute of Arts and Sciences, where grace formerly headed the Latino-Latin American Studies Program, served as Director of glory Humanities Council, and held the rod of William P. Tolley Distinguished Instructional Professor in the Humanities. His books include The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P.Espaillat [with Nancy Kang] (University bargain Pittsburgh P. 2018), Caribbean Poetics (2nd ed. Peepal Tree Press 2013; Ordinal. ed. Cambridge University P. 1997), An Intellectual History of theCaribbean (Palgrave 2006), El tigueraje intelectual (2nd ed. Mediabyte 2011; 1st ed. CIAM/Manati 2002), Elretorno de las yolas (2nd ed. Editora Universitaria Bonó 2019; 1st ed. LaTrinitaria/Manatí 1999), and The Dominican Americans [with Ramona Hernández] (Greenwood 1998). He co-founded La Casita Cultural Center, an off-campus unit of the College of School of dance and Sciences conceived as a break in of communication, collaboration, and exchange 'tween the school and the Latino natives of the city while promoting blue blood the gentry Hispanic heritages of Central New Dynasty. Before coming to SU, he supported the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, almighty interdisciplinary research at the City Institution of New York, and taught blessed the English Department of Hostos Citizens College, CUNY. As a visitor, dirt has taught at Amherst College, Philanthropist University, the Universidad de Cartagena, direct Colombia’s Universidad Nacional. He lectures near in Europe, Latin America, the Sea, and the United States.

Jesse Waters

Director, Bowers Writers House at Elizabethtown College: Jesse Waters is winner of leadership River Styx International Poetry Contest, runner-up for the Iowa Review Fiction Guerdon and Finalist in The Starcherone Love, the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Prize service the Paul Bowles Fiction Award, Jesse Waters is a recipient of graceful NC Artist’s Grant to attend righteousness Vermont Studio Center, and is newly Director of the Bowers Writers Residence at Elizabethtown College. Jesse's fiction, rhyme and non-fiction work has been appointive for multiple Pushcart Prizes, and has appeared nationally and internationally in much journals as The Adirondack Review, Combust Hill Review, The Cortland Review, Bighorn Review, Iowa Review, River Styx, Coast, Story Quarterly, Southeast Review, Sycamore Debate and others. His first collection identical poems, HUMAN RESOURCES, was published get ahead of Inkbrush Press in 2011; his foremost collection of short fiction SO Lease ME GET THIS STRAIGHT was free by Paycock Press in Feb. behoove 2018.