Teaching

I don't always climb on the table when I'm teaching, but I will if the situation requires me to do so.
I don’t always climb on the table when I’m teaching, but I will if the situation requires me to do so.

I was a full-time faculty member in the Creative Writing Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design though the school’s closure in spring, 2018, where I teach courses on non-fiction writing, journalism and literature. Through the school, in 2013 and 2014, I also traveled and taught journalism and multi-media publication workshops on campuses in Mexico, Costa Rica and India. I was extremely humbled to be recognized as an honored educator by SITE Santa Fe in 2013.

I also serve as one of the faculty advisors for the online student magazine, Jackalope Magazine, a course I team taught with Anthony O’Brien in SFUAD’s Photography Department.

I have designed and and taught a variety of creative nonfiction, literature, journalism and media courses at the school. Feel free to peruse my course websites below, and feel free to borrow my syllabi in any way that is useful. I also have numerous presentations living on Slideshare that accompany my course materials. Credit as you see fit.

Techniques of Creative Non-Fiction

Advanced Nonfiction

Media and Storytelling

The Lyric Essay

Journalism Collaborations and Real Stories (original feeder courses to Jackalope Magazine).

Dystopia Literature and Gender 

 

Prior to working at SFUAD, I also taught creative writing courses at Santa Fe Community College and The Institute of American Indian Arts.