Department of Creative Writing
University of Texas at El Paso
Liberal Arts 415
500 West University Ave.

El Paso, TX  79968

lex@utep.edu

 

2704 N. Kansas

El Paso, TX  79902

915-351-7144 (home office/fax)

915-747-8806 (office)

915-433-1931 (mobile)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homepage

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com

 

 

Education

MFA: Fiction Writing, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 1987.

*      http://www.uark.edu/~arsc/Main_Connection2.pdf

MA: English, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, 1982.

BA: English/Journalism, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1979.

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

 (book of stories)

Macauley’s Thumb (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1994).  Co-winner of the 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Award.  ISBN: 0877454434

 

 

 

*       http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/wilmacthu.htm

 

 

(Anthology, Editor)

 

 

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970 (New York: Simon & Schuster/Scribner Trade Paperback, 1999).  ISBN: 0684857960.  Co-edited with Michael Martone, with an introduction by Rosellen Brown.  Selected as a future Featured Alternate for the Quality Paperback Books Club, this anthology includes a democratic selection of stories from the last twenty years nominated by teaching writers in writing workshops, national writing program directors and freelance fiction writers.  

 

 

 

*       http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684857960/qid%3D930371750/Sr%3D1-2/002-2423084-1050443

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifty Contemporary Stories Since 1970, hardcover reprint for Borders Books, forthcoming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(stories)

“Beck’s Girls,” Glimmer Train Stories, (Spring 2005, Issue 54): 168-179, 243.

 

 

 

“A Cross for Sister Mary Joseph,” River Styx 68, 2004: 76-78.

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/River%20Styx%20SMJ.htm

 

 

 

“Nate and Drake,” Natural Bridge 11 (Spring 2004): 25-27.

*       http://www.umsl.edu/~natural/number11/williford.html

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Natural%20Bridge%20ND.htm

 

 

 

“My Mother’s Wedding Dress,” Prairie Schooner, Special Fiction Issue, Summer 2003: 21-26.

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Prairie%20Schooner%20WD.htm

 

 

 

“The Tub,” Witness, Volume XVII, Number 1, 2003, 62-76.

*       http://www.occ.cc.mi.us/witness/

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Witness%20Tub.htm

 

 

 

“A Rose for Sister Carmel,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Special Section—Flash Fiction, 2003: 43, 48-49.

 

 

 

“White Rock,” Cortland Review: An Online Literary Magazine in Real Audio 5 (November, 1998).

 

 

 

*       http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/lex5.htm

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/BSE%20pdfs/Cortland%20Review%20White%20Rock.pdf

 

 

 

“Milk, Blood, Bone, Moon,” Quarterly West 47 (Autumn/Winter 1998-99), 106-139.

 

 

 

“Seven Train,” Idaho Review 1.1 (Spring Inaugural Issue, 1998): 110-125.

 

 

 

*       http://english.boisestate.edu/idahoreview/1998.htm

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Shenandoah%20Brush.htm

 

 

 

“Little Man,” American Literary Review 8.1 (Spring 1998): 26-27.

 

 

 

“The Brush,” Shenandoah 47.3 (Fall 1997): 30-41.

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Shenandoah%20Brush.htm

 

 

 

“Jesse,” Glimmer Train Stories 22 (Spring 1997): 49-65, 147.

 

 

 

*       http://www.glimmertrain.com/is22sprin19.html

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Glimmer%20Train%20Jesse.htm

 

 

 

“Hoot’s Last Bubble Bath,” (reprint) Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review 26.1-4 (Spring 1996): 55-76.

 

 

 

Possum Kingdom,” Sou’wester 22.1 (Spring/Summer 1994): 108.

 

 

 

“Hoot’s Last Bubble Bath,” Glimmer Train Stories (Spring 1994, Issue 10): 133-167, 179.

 

 

 

“Influenza,” Fiction 12.1 (1994): 23-28. 

 

 

 

“The Coat,” Quarterly West 38 (Winter/Spring 1994): 16-17.

 

 

 

“Macauley’s Thumb,” Glimmer Train Stories (Winter 1994, Issue 9): 98-109, 164.

 

 

 

“Godzilla vs. the Sensitive Man,” Laurel Review 27.2 (Summer 1993): 106-128.

 

 

 

“Fair Day,” Virginia Quarterly Review 68.3 (Summer 1992): 515-538.

 

 

 

“A Discussion of Property,” StoryQuarterly 28 (Summer 1990): 18-28.

 

 

 

“Taking Nonie Home,” Kansas Quarterly 21.1-2 (Winter/Spring 1989): 11-24.

 

 

 

“Pendergast’s Daughter,” Quarterly West 28 (Winter/Spring 1989): 4.

 

 

 

“Get Right or Get Left,” Southern Review 3.2 (Summer 1987): 709-718.

 

 

 

“Two Sons, Two Wars,” RE: Artes Liberales 10.1 (Fall 1983): 37-53.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(stories in translation)

Farsi: “Behtarin Bache Ye Alam” (“Pendergast’s Daughter”), translated by Asadollah Amraee.

 

 

 

Spanish: “La hija de Pendergast,” Tameme, Sol y Luna Issue: 2.1 (2001): 114-117, translated by Claudia Esteve.

 

 

 

*       http://www.tameme.org/issue_2/contents2.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

(stories in anthologies)

“The Tub,” The Best of Witness (1987-2003), forthcoming.

 

 

 

“A Cross for Sister Mary Joseph,” Micro2: Voices for the New Millennium, forthcoming. 

 

 

 

“Pendergast’s Daughter,” The Eloquent Short Story: Varieties of Narration: An Anthology, Edited, with an introduction by Lucy Rosenthal (Persea Books, 2004): 57-58.

 

 

 

Texas State Optical,” Chokecherries: A S.O.M.O.S. Anthology 2001 (Taos, NM, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, 2001): 39-40.

 

 

 

“A Discussion of Property,” The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000, Selected by Frank Conroy (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2001): 262-271.

 

 

 

“A Discussion of Property,” Alabama Bound (Livingston, AL: Livingston University Press, 1995): 193-198.

 

 

 

“Hoot’s Last Bubble Bath,” The Iowa Short Fiction Sampler: The 1993 Winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award (Iowa City, IA.: University of Iowa Press, 1994): 2-31.

 

 

 

“Folsom Man,” New Texas 93, James Ward Lee, et al, eds.  Denton, TX: Center for Texas Studies (1993): 170-178.

 

 

 

“Pendergast’s Daughter,” Flash Fiction, James Thomas et al, eds.  New York: W. W. Norton and Company (1992): 37-38.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(chapbook)

Macauley’s Thumb (Tuscaloosa, AL.: Saffron Press, 1995), limited edition (64 signed copies) printed and bound by September Lynn Newman Kirk, illustrated by Jeff Moss.  

 

 

 

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Macauley's%20Thumb%20Chapbook.htm

 

 

(novels in progress)

Nacogdoches (written through chapter ten)

 

 

 

Aggieland (written through chapter five)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(book of stories in progress)

Milk, Blood, Bone, Moon (five published stories completed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(screenplays in progress)

“Hotel Mariposa” (ninth draft)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(essay on writing)

“The ‘Last’ Draft,” Novel and Short Story Writers’ Market, 2002, 42-45.

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Novel%20SS%20Market%202002.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

(pedagogical essays)

“Toward a More Open, Democratic Workshop,” Poets & Writers, 26: 2 (March/April, 1998), 52-54, 56, 60, 62, 67, 69, 73, 75, 77.  [Response to letter: Poets & Writers, 26: 4 (July/August, 1998), 7-8.] 

 

 

 

*       http://www.pw.org/mag/mag9803.htm

*       http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/PW.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Images, Comparisons, and Surprises: Three Terms for Teaching Students to Write Poetry,” Alabama English 1.2 (Fall 1989): 13-20.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(review)

“Madison Smart Bell’s Barking Man and Other Stories,” Southern Humanities Review 25.2 (Spring 1991):  190-193.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(introduction)

Guest Editor’s Introduction, Natural Bridge, Issue 8, Fall 2002, forthcoming.

*       http://www.umsl.edu/~natural/number8/williford_intro.html

 

 

 

Editor’s Introduction, Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(exercise)

Poetry-writing exercise in: Making Poems, Arkansas Writers in the Schools, Nancy McCabe Francoeur, Ed., Fayetteville, AR (Spring 1988): 11-13.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honors and Awards

2004, “Hotel Mariposa,” Squaw Valley Writers Conference, Screenwriting Scholarship.

 

 

 

2003, “A Cross for Sister Mary Joseph,” Finalist, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award

 

 

 

2002, “Nate and Drake,” Finalist, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award

 

 

 

2002, “Nate and Drake,” Finalist, 2001 Writers Digest Short-Short Story Award

 

 

 

2001, “Hotel Mariposa,” Semifinalist, Quarterfinalist, Texas Film Institute Screenwriting Fellowship

 

 

 

*       http://www.moviebytes.com/NewsStory.cfm?StoryID=875&MODE=MailForm

 

 

 

2001, “Hotel Mariposa,” Second Round (top ten percent), Heart of Film Screenplay Competition, 2001 Austin Film Festival.

 

 

 

1999, 2000 “Hotel Mariposa,” Semifinalist, Screenwriting Fellowship, The Writer’s Film Project, Chesterfield Film Co. 

 

 

 

1999 “Hotel Mariposa,” Semifinalist, Screenwriting Fellowship, The Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Contest.

 

 

 

1998 Special Mention for “Jesse,” in The Pushcart Prizes, XXII.

 

 

 

1997 Pushcart Prize nomination, American Literary Review, by Lee Martin, for Pushcart Prizes, XXII.

 

 

 

1997 Screenwriting Fellowship, Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley, CA.

 

 

 

1997 Pushcart Prize nomination, by Caroline Kizer, for Pushcart Prizes, XXII.

 

 

 

1997 Pushcart Prize nomination, by Michael Martone, for Pushcart Prizes, XXII.

 

 

 

1995 100 Distinguished Stories of 1994, “Macauley’s Thumb”: Best American Short Stories 1995.

 

 

 

1994 Shane Stevens Fellowship in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT.

 

 

 

1994 Pushcart Prize nomination, by Rick Bass, for Pushcart Prizes, XIX.

 

 

 

1993 Iowa School of Letters Short Fiction Award for Macauley’s Thumb, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Francine Prose, Judges.

 

 

 

1993 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature.

 

 

 

1991 Honorable Mention for “Possum Kingdom” in the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, Florida State University.

 

 

 

1990 & 1991 Finalist, Screenwriting Fellowship, The Writer’s Film Project, Chesterfield Film Co., Amblin Entertainment, Universal Studios, Hollywood, CA.

 

 

 

1990 Special Mention for “Taking Nonie Home,” in The Pushcart Prizes, XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990-1991.

 

 

 

1988/1989 Kansas Quarterly/Kansas Arts Commission First Award Story for “Taking Nonie Home,” Mary Morris, Judge.

 

 

 

1986 Baucum-Fulkerson Award for Fiction, University of Arkansas MFA Program.

 

 

 

1986 Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Employment/

Courses Taught

Distinguished Visiting Writer: English, Fiction Writing, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Spring Semester, 2002.

 

 

 

Graduate Fiction Workshop

Literary Journal Editing

 

 

 

*       http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/artscience/english/creative/master_of_fine_arts.htm

 

 

 

Assistant Professor: English, Fiction Writing, Bilingual Program in Creative Writing, University of Texas at El Paso, 2000-present.

 

 

 

The Prose Poem and Short-Short Story (Graduate)

Screenwriting (Graduate and Undergraduate)

The Modernist Novel

The Contemporary Novel

Contemporary Short Fiction

Graduate Fiction Workshop

Undergraduate Fiction Workshop

Creative Writing Workshop

 

 

 

Assistant Professor: English/Fiction Writing, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1994-99.

 

 

 

Beginning Fiction Writing

Advanced Fiction Writing (for both advanced undergraduates and MFA poets)

Graduate Fiction Writing for MFA poets

Graduate Fiction Writing

 

 

 

Assistant Director: MFA Program, University of Alabama, Spring/Summer 1996.

 

 

 

Lecturer: English/Creative Writing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 1990-94.

 

 

 

Introduction to Creative Writing (Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Screenwriting)

Beginning Fiction Writing

Intermediate Fiction Writing

Advanced Fiction Writing

Form and Theory of Fiction

 

 

 

Writing Center Director: Auburn University, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 1989-90.

 

 

 

Instructor: Auburn University, 1987-90.

 

 

 

Continuing Education, Beginning Fiction Writing

Structures of Literature/Fiction writing (a fiction writing/contemporary fiction course designed for architecture students)

Composition and Rhetoric

American, British and World Literature Surveys

Technical Writing

Business Writing

 

 

 

Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 1984-87.

 

 

 

Grammar and Composition

Literature and Composition

Junior English

Technical Writing

Co-Director, Arkansas Writers in the Schools

Visiting Writer, Arkansas Writers in the Schools

 

 

 

Assistant Instructor: Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX, 1982-83.

 

 

 

Rhetoric and Composition

World Literature Survey

Writing Center Supervisor

 

 

 

GTA: Stephen F. Austin University, 1980-82.

 

 

 

Rhetoric and Composition.

 

 

 

GTA: Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, 1979-80.

 

 

 

Graded papers, tutored foreign and remedial students

 

 

 

 

 

 

Committee Appointments

Faculty Senate, University of Texas at El Paso, 2002-present.

 

 

 

Creative Writing Committee, University of Texas at El Paso, 2000-present.

 

 

 

Chair, Teaching Writer Search Committee, Department of Youth Services, Alabama Writers’ Forum, “Writing Our Stories,” A Violence Prevention Initiative for Incarcerated Youth in Alabama, Pilot Program, Mt. Meigs, Alabama, Fall 1997.

 

 

 

Poet Search Committee, Fall 1997-Spring 1998, University of Alabama.

 

 

 

Creative Writing Program Committee, September 1994-1999, University of Alabama.

 

 

 

University of Alabama Media Planning Board Committee, Fall 1994-Spring 1997.  (Faculty liaison between the MPB, the English Department and the student publications, The Black Warrior Review and The Marrs Field Journal.)

 

 

 

Distinguished Fiction Writer Search Committee, Fall 1994-Spring 1996, University of Alabama.

 

 

 

Society for the Fine Arts Board, Fall 1995-Fall 1996, University of Alabama.

 

 

 

Media Planning Board Planning Sub-committee, September 1994-Spring 1995, University of Alabama.

 

 

 

Undergraduate Advisement Committee, Fall 1994-Spring 1995, Fall 1997-Spring 1998, University of Alabama.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related Experience

Faculty Advisor, Rio Grande Review, University of Texas at El Paso, 2004-present.

Faculty Advisor, MFA Student Organization, University of Texas at El Paso, 2002-2004.

 

 

 

Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, Southern Illinois University, 1993.

 

 

 

Co-Director, Arkansas Writers in the Schools, 1986-1987.

 

 

 

Visiting Writer, Arkansas Writers in the Schools, 1985-1987.

 

 

 

Production Assistant, This Poem is My Poem, Video Documentary, 1987.

 

 

 

Texas Secondary Teaching Certificate in English and Journalism, 1979.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editing Experience

Guest Editor, Natural Bridge, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Spring 2002.

 

 

 

Founding Editor, with Department Chair Richard Peterson, Many Rivers (a predecessor of the Crab Orchard Review), Southern Illinois University, 1994.

 

 

 

Faculty Advisor, Grassroots, Southern Illinois University (1993 finalist in content, for the Associated Writing Programs national undergraduate literary magazine contest), 1991-1994.

 

 

 

Editor, Cæsura magazine, Auburn University, 1988-1991.

 

 

 

Fiction Editor, Cæsura, 1987-1988.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction Judge

The McKinney Short Fiction Award, University of MissouriColumbia, 2004.

 

 

 

The Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service

BorderSenses Writers’ Retreat, “The Process of Writing Fiction,” Cloudcroft, NM, October 24-25, 2003.

 

 

 

BorderSenses Writers’ Retreat, “Meditation as Writing Practice,” Cloudcroft, NM, October 23-25, 2002.

 

 

 

Visiting Writer/Advisor, “Writing Our Stories,” A Violence Prevention Initiative for Incarcerated Youth in Alabama, Pilot Program, Mt. Meigs, Alabama.

 

 

 

Founder/Faculty Advisor, the Starbuck Project, an MFA Writers in the Schools program, Spring 1997-1999.

 

 

 

Faculty Advisor, MFA Writers in the Schools/Spectra program, Spring 1995-1999.

 

 

 

University of Alabama Mentoring Program, 1995-1999.

 

 

 

Alabama Writers Forum Board, 1994-1998.

 

 

 

Associated Writing Programs Benefit Reading Series, 1993-present.  

 

 

 

*       http://awpwriter.org/benefit.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fellowships to Artists’ Colonies

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, June-July, 2004.

Finalist, Eastern Frontier Foundation, Norton Island Residency Program, Bedford, NY, 2004.

 

 

 

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, June-July 2002.

 

 

 

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM, July and August, 2001.

 

 

 

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, June 1998.

 

 

 

Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, December 1996.

 

 

 

Djerrasi Foundation, Woodside, CA, June 1996.

 

 

 

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, July-August, 1995.

 

 

 

Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA, June-July 1994.

 

 

 

Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, August 1993.

 

 

 

Jane G. Camp Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, July 1993.

 

 

 

Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, June 1993.

 

 

 

Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, June 1992.

 

 

 

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, December 1991.

 

 

 

Cleveland H. Dodge Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, September 1990.

 

 

 

Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, September 1989.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Grants

$4,000 for stories in a book of stories in progress, University of Alabama Research Grants Committee summer grant application, summer 1997.

 

 

 

$3,470 for chapters four and five of Aggieland, a novel-in-progress, University of Alabama Research Grants Committee summer grant application, summer 1995.

 

 

 

$3,800 for a five-day fiction writing workshop, sponsored by the Texas Committee for the Humanities, the Stephen F. Austin State University Department of English, Sigma Tau Delta Honorary Literary Fraternity, and Thomas J. Rusk Middle School, 1993.

 

 

 

$350 for travel to MacDowell Colony, sponsored by the Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1989.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Grants

“Writing Our Stories,” A Violence Prevention Initiative for Incarcerated Youth in Alabama, Pilot Program, Mt. Meigs, Alabama, sponsored by the Alabama Writers’ Forum and the Alabama State Council for the Arts.  (Assisted project director Jeanie Thompson in drafting this document and was a visiting writer for the program.)

 

 

 

Starbuck Project, an MFA Writers in the Schools program, sponsored by the Alabama State Council for the Arts, the Tuscaloosa Council for the Arts, Tuscaloosa County Schools and the University of Alabama English Department and Creative Writing Program, Spring 1997-1999.

 

 

 

$2,400 for Cæsura magazine, sponsored by the Alabama State Council for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Auburn English Department, 1989-1990.

 

 

 

$30,000 for Arkansas Poetry in the Schools, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arkansas Arts Council, and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1986-1987.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Service

Summertime Blues Camp, sponsored by the The Alabama Blues Society, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Alabama, the Alabama State Arts Council, Mercedes Benz, the Bonnie Raitt Foundation, etc.  Along with blues artists Debbie Bond, Mike McCracken, Little Jimmy Reed, Big Bo McGee and Willie King, taught at-risk kids the history of blues music, how to write blues songs and how to play the blues: percussion instructor.  Performances held in the Bama Theater and CityFest, Tuscaloosa, AL, summer 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music Experience

Blues, jazz, jazz fusion, “art” rock drummer since fifteen.

 

 

 

Played with Vent Records blues artists Debbie Bond and the Kokomo Blues Band, Little Jimmy Reed, and Little Whitt and Big Bo (Best Blues CD, UK, 1994), 1994-1999.

 

 

 

*       http://www.alabamablues.org/whittbo.htm

 

 

 

Played with the late WEA/Elektra blues recording artist John Campbell, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1980-1982.

 

 

 

*       http://www.devilinmycloset.net/john_campbell_timeline.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews of

Macauley’s Thumb

 

Amazon.com

 

 

 

*       http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0877454434/002-1212883-4158234

 

 

 

Studies in Short Fiction, 33.1 (Winter 1996): 137-138.

 

 

 

Dallas Morning News, Sunday Readers Section (October 23, 1994): 8J.

 

 

 

Virginia Quarterly Review 70.4 (Autumn 1994): 126.

 

 

 

Boston Globe (May 1, 1994): 325.

 

 

 

Mirabella (April 1994): 76.

 

 

 

“Award-winning Collection ‘like a sly country song,’” by Cody Walker, Northwest Arkansas Times (April 24, 1994).

 

 

 

“Award-winning writer blends bizarre humor, brutal irony, optimism,” The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, IA (April 6, 1994): 6B.

 

 

 

The New York Times Book Review, New York, NY (March 20, 1994): 18.      

 

 

 

Booklist (February 15, 1994).

 

 

 

Kirkus Reviews (December 1, 1993).

 

 

 

Publishers Weekly (November 8, 1993).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviews

Cynthia’s Farah-Haines’ On Film, “The UTEP Screenwriting Minor,” KTEP Radio, aired December 4, 2003.

 

 

 

Cityscape with Joe Pollack, KWMU Radio, 90.7, St. Louis, MO, March 2002.

 

 

 

KTEP, radio interview, Fall 2002.

 

 

 

“Rattlesnakes, thumb add twists,” The Iowa City Press Citizen, Amy Peters, interviewer (April 4, 1994).

 

 

 

The Writers’ Corner, Mariflo Stephens, interviewer, WTJU FM, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, July 1993.

 

 

 

KLSB Television Evening News, Stephanie Rocker, interviewer, Nacogdoches, TX, April 1993.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles about The Author

“Macauley’s Thumb Author to Read from Work at W & L,” Lexington (VA) News-Gazette, October 15, 1995.

 

 

 

“New UA faculty member to kick off writers’ series,” Tuscaloosa News, September 7, 1994.

 

 

 

“Writer loves his job,” “Book reflects different subjects,” “Author realizes life’s trials affect story telling ability,” Daily Egyptian, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, February 24, 1994: 9, 10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

World Wide Web Reading

Cortland Review: An Online Literary Magazine in Real Audio 5 (November, 1998).  

 

 

 

 

*       http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/lex5.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radio Readings

Live from Prairie Lights, WSUI AM, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, IA; WOIA AM, Des Moines, IA, April 1994.

 

 

 

The Writers’ Corner, WTJU FM, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, July 1993.

 

 

 

Braided Voices, WEGL Radio, Auburn, AL, May 1989.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction Readings

BorderSenses Fundraising Reading, El Paso Community Foundation, El Paso, TX, December 23, 2003.

 

 

 

BorderSenses Writers’ Retreat, Cloudcroft, NM, November 22, 2003.

 

 

 

Spring 2003 Arts Festival Epiphany Reading, El Paso, TX, March 13, 2003

 

 

 

New Mexico State University, Hardman Hall, December 6, 2002.

 

 

 

BorderSenses Writers’ Retreat, Cloudcroft, NM, October 23, 2002.

 

 

 

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, July 2002.

 

 

 

River Styx Reading Series, Duff’s, St. Louis, MO, May 2002.

 

 

 

University of Missouri at St. Louis, Lucas Hall Gallery, St. Louis, MO, February 2002.

 

 

 

Kaffe Tazza, Taos, NM, August 2001.

 

 

 

Taos Inn, Taos, NM, July 2001

 

 

 

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, February 2000.

 

 

 

University of California, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, February 2000.

 

 

 

California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, February 2000.

 

 

 

University of Texas, El Paso, El Paso, TX, February 2000.

 

 

 

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, March 1999.

 

 

 

University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, February 1999.

 

 

 

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, June 1998.

 

 

 

Mt. Meigs Juvenile Dention Facility, Mt. Meigs, AL, May 1998.

 

 

 

Fourth Annual Montevallo Literary Shindig, Montevallo, AL, September, 1997.

 

 

 

Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley, CA, August, 1997.

 

 

 

University of North Alabama Writers’ Conference, Muscle Shoals, AL, April 1997.

 

 

 

Writers’ Harvest, Tuscaloosa, AL, November 1997.

 

 

 

Djerrasi Foundation, Woodside, CA, June 1996.

 

 

 

Book Cellar, Northport, AL, May 1996.

 

 

 

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, April, 1996.

 

 

 

Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers’ Conference, Fairhope, AL, April, 1996.

 

 

 

Little Professor Bookstore, Homewood, AL, December, 1995.

 

 

 

Auburn University at Montgomery, October, 1995.

 

 

 

Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, October, 1995.

 

 

 

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, July, 1995.

 

 

 

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT, August, 1994.

 

 

 

University of Alabama, Morgan Auditorium, Tuscaloosa, AL, September 1994 [video recording].

 

 

 

Borders Books, Dallas, TX, April 1994.

 

 

 

Borders Books, Minneapolis, MN, April 1994.

 

 

 

Barnes and Noble, Des Moines, IA, April 1994.

 

 

 

Simpson College, Indianola, IA, April 1994.

 

 

 

Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA, April 1994.

 

 

 

96th Street Regional Library, New York City, NY, March 1994.

 

 

 

Limbo, New York City, NY, March 1994.

 

 

 

Biblios Book Café, New York City, NY, March 1994.

 

 

 

The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, August 1993.

 

 

 

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, July 1993.

 

 

 

Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, June 1993.

 

 

 

Liberal Arts Auditorium, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, May 1993.

 

 

 

Morris Library Auditorium, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, January 1993.

 

 

 

Sigma Tau Delta Reading, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, December 1992.

 

 

 

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, July 1992.

 

 

 

The Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, June 1992.

 

 

 

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, December 1991.

 

 

 

Morris Library Auditorium, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, November 1991.

 

 

 

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, September 1990.

 

 

 

The Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, September 1989.

 

 

 

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT, August 1986.

 

 

 

Hays and Sanders’ Bookstore, Fayetteville, AR, November 1986.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presentations

“The Sprinter Trains for a Marathon,” Panel Chair, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, forthcoming, March 2005.

“The Alchemy of Endings,” Associated Writing Programs Conference, PDR 7, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, March 26, 2004.

 

 

 

“Writing across the Americas,” Panel Chair, with UTEP MFA students, Javier Huerta, Juan Alvarez, Carmen Seda and Selfa Chew, Associated Writing Programs Conference, PDR 5, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, March 26, 2004.

 

 

 

“The Process of Writing Fiction,” BorderSenses Writers’ Retreat, Cloudcroft, NM, November 22, 2003.

 

 

 

“The Process of Writing Fiction,” University of Missouri at St. Louis, J. C. Penney Auditorium, February 2002.

 

 

 

“Getting Published,” University of Missouri at St. Louis, Millenium Student Center, with panelists David Carkeet (Chair), Mary Troy, Catherine Rankovic, Jennifer Haigh and Dan Pope, March 2002.

 

 

 

“Creative Writing on the Border,” Associated Writing Programs Conference, March 2002: with panelists Sheryl Luna, Lisa Smith Bandy and Daniel Chacon, Chair.

 

 

 

“The ‘Last’ Draft,” Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, “Invention and Revision” panel, December 1998: with novelists Diane Glancy, Susan Hubbard and Valerie Miner, Chair.

 

 

 

“Toward a More Open, Democratic Workshop,” Associated Writing Programs Convention, Washington, DC, April 1997: with panelists Michael Martone, Valerie Miner and Lex Williford, Chair.

 

 

 

“Teaching Fiction Writing to Primary, Secondary and College Students,” Teacher Training Workshop: Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, May 1993.

 

 

 

“Images, Comparisons, and Surprises: Three Terms for Teaching Students to Write Poetry,” Gulf Coast Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Point Clear, AL, June 1990.

 

 

 

“The Architecture of Action: Structure and Surprise in Short Fiction,” Haley Center, Auburn University, November 1989.

 

 

 

“Writing Short Fiction: Twenty-four Fundamentals,” Foy Union, Auburn University, September 1987.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literary Agent

Nat Sobel, Sobel Weber Associates, Inc., 146 East 19 Street, New York NY 10003-2404.

 

                               Last edited December 17, 2004