Ph.D. in English.  University of North Texas, May 2003.  Dissertation: Damned Good Daughter.  Director: Barbara Rodman Areas of specialization: Creative Writing / Nonfiction,  Contemporary American Literature.  Other areas of interest: World Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Poetry.

Masters of Arts, English.  University of North Texas.  May 1999

Secondary Teaching Certificate.   University of North Texas. 1989

Bachelor's of Arts, German and French.  University of North Texas.  1987

Poetry:  
Chapbook:  
The Third Mercy.  Denton, Texas.  Basilisk Press, 2002

Periodicals:
“Damned Good Daughter.” The Awakenings Review. Vol. 2,
No. 1. Ed. Bob Lundin. University of Chicago. April 2002

Co-leader, Special Problems course PSYC 4900, "The Psychology of Writing about Stressful Experiences."  Spring 2006.

Leader of local community workshop in Writing and Healing, text.  Writing to Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma & Emotional Upheaval by Dr. James Pennebaker.  Fall 2005

Damned Good Daughter book manuscript was selected for workshop at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Grapevine, Texas.  July22-24, 2005

"Story and Healing in Memoir," Professor's Corner literary discussion series hosted by the Denton Public Library and sponsored by Texas Woman's University.  July 13, 2005

"Wound as Narrow Door," faculty reading, University of North Texas.  April 8, 2004

"Survivor Narrative and the Transformative Rhetoric of Creative Nonfiction," delivered at the Federation Rhetoric Symposium, Texas Woman's University.  February 6, 2004

“A Letter to Patricia Hampl,” delivered at The Fourth Annual Flint Hills Literary Festival, Kansas State University.  October 21, 2000

“Questioning Common Methods: Looking for Better Alternatives,” Southwest Regional Two Year College Association Conference, Dallas, Texas.  October 28, 2000

Attended Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Writers' Workshop at Goucher College, hosted by Lee Gutkind 2000

Damned Good Daughter.  Book.  Memoir.  (Revision in progress).

Poems.  (manuscripts in circulation)

"Snow Fight." Essay, Memoir.  (manuscript in progress)

Helene, or the Vegetable Kingdom, a translation of Rene Guy Cadou's Helene, ou le regne vegetal, (Seghers: Paris, 1952).  Book.  Translator: Marie-Conin-Jones, Ph.D.  Assistants: Todd Hall, M.A., and Rachel Yeatts, Ph.D.  (Completed manuscript in circulation).

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of North Texas 2000-2003

Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award 2002

Ray C. Stoker Scholarship 2002

University of North Texas Toulouse Graduate Fellowship, $16,000 1999

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of North Texas 1998

Graduate Academic Assistantship, University of North Texas 1997

Teacher of the Month, Denton High School 1987

Goethe Institut stipend, University of Colorado, Boulder 1987, two-week intensive German course

Faculty Award for Excellence in German 1987; one award per year when merited

Foreign Language Award, Tarrant County Junior College 1983; selected as single recipient among three language departments

Special Achievement Award, Tarrant County Junior College 1983; awarded for grades and volunteer work

Scholarship, Tarrant County Junior College 1983

Lecturer, University of North Texas 2003-2006

Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas 1998-1999; 2000-2003

German teacher, Denton High School, Denton, Texas 1987-1991

Service on ad hoc committee to prepare entrance/exit exams in American Literature Spring 2005

Faculty Advisor to student literary journal, North Texas Review 2003-2004

Editor-in-Chief, North Texas Review 2002-2003

Appointed Team leader/mentor, teaching fellows 2003

Reader, fiction, American Literary Review 2001