Resume

EDUCATION

Social and Cultural Studies in Education, School of Education, UC Berkeley, course work completed towards Ph.D. (1989–1994). Courses in sustainable development, race/gender/class studies, trade policy.

Arts Administration Program, Golden Gate University, San Francisco (1975–1977). Courses in Board development, finance and budgeting, grant-writing, non-profit management.

Goddard College, Plainfield, VT. MFA, Creative Writing (1970)

Eastern Michigan University, coursework towards MA (1966–1969)

Smith College, Northampton, MA, B. A., English (1966) 

EXPERIENCE

North Atlantic Books and Frog, Ltd., Berkeley, CA (1989–present) 
Co-Founder, Publisher, Editorial Director

Direct business activities of both companies; Editorial Director; Product Acquisition; Human Resources and Benefits; staff management. Responsible for building this leading independent trade publisher into a company which publishes forward-looking titles in alternative health, martial arts, spiritual topics, progressive politics, and other general trade subjects.

College Of Engineering, UC Berkeley  (1989–1993)
Lecturer, “The Social Implications of Technology,” upper division course in engineering ethics and sustainable development 

Developed lecture program of engineering faculty and invited guests on engineering ethics and bioethics, lectured and taught sections myself. Subjects: critique of big dams, risk assessment, nuclear proliferation, development of local markets, bioethics and bioresearch and politics; IMF and World Bank  funding, development theory and policy. 

College of Engineering, UC Berkeley. (1984-1990)
Lecturer, Technical Communications 

Taught upper division writing course and speaking for all engineering majors and graduate students emphasizing grammar, style, editing, oral presentations, argumentative writing and debate.

Shambhala Publications, Boulder, CO (1983-1984)
West Coast Editor

Acquired West Coast titles from local authors; developed local publicity.

Lindy Hough Associates, Richmond, California. (1980-1983)
Non-Profit Management Consultant

Board development, grant-writing, long-range planning.

Clients included first Oakland Festival of the Lake  (The  Junior League), Far West Laboratory, Center for Ethical Law, Contra Costa College, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, and others.

Far West Laboratory, San Francisco, CA. (1982-1983)
Program Administrator, Regional Environmental Link System   

Wrote grants to local foundations for environmental education program bringing together environmental groups with K-12 science teachers.

Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California (1980-1982)
Artist in Residence: Grant Writer 

On California Arts Council Grant, taught writing in six different sites in the community; developed guidelines and planning for Community College Foundation, and wrote and received grant from NEA to bring four writers to campus; wrote two Manpower grants for to staff Community College Foundation. 

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond, CA. (1976-1979)
Dance Coordinator

Directed dance program in community arts school in Berkeley and Richmond. Hired and supervised dance faculty; programmed curriculum and performing opportunities; wrote grants to fund department faculty salaries and performances; managed Berkeley & Richmond performing spaces; managed resident NEA-funded theater group.

Writers In The Schools Program, Montpelier, VT. (1974-1976)
Director and Writer-Teacher

Taught in fifteen rural schools; hired ten other writers and placed in residencies; coordinated residencies; edited annual anthology.

COURSES TAUGHT

• The College of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley 1989
  The Social Implications of Technology 1992–1994
  Technical Writing and Speaking (1984–1990)
  
• Contra Costa College, Artist in Residence (1980–1982)
  Creative Writing; Writing and Speaking English
  
• Goddard College, Lecturer in English (1971–1975)
  
• Women’s Fiction and Poetry, Modern American Poetry
  
• University of Southern Maine, Lecturer in English  (1970–1971)
  Composition; Introduction to Literature and Essay
  
• Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI-Graduate Student Instructor, English, (1966–1969)
  Composition; Introductory Literature courses
  
• Writers in the Schools Program, Vermont. Director and Poet –Teacher (1974–1976)
• Writing courses taught: Composition, Contemporary Fiction; Contemporary Poetry, Modern American Novel, Contemporary Women Writers

RESEARCH AREAS

Sustainable development in developing countries and globalization; bioethics; women and development; fiction, poetry, women’s literature, literature and politics.

HONORS

• Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship for Dance Criticism 1972
• California Arts Council Artist in Residence- Contra Costa College 1974-1975
• National Endowment on the Arts Literature –Small Press Grants for Io 1974- 1977
• Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Editor’s Grant 1985

PUBLICATIONS

Books 

• Poetry: Changing Woman  (1971), Psyche  (1975), The Sun In Cancer  (1975), Outlands and Inlands  (1978) 
• Non-fiction: Nuclear Strategy and The Code of the Warrior: Faces of Mars and Shiva in the Crisis of Human Survival. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1981.

Magazines

• “Visionary John Todd,  New Alchemy Institute” (interview) Omni, August 1987.
• “The Anatomy of Change,” by Richard Heckler (review) Yoga Journal, Feb. 1986.
• “The Soft Room –Stories by Summer Brenner” (review) San Francisco Review of Books, October 1985
• “Lucinda Childs: Elegant Dissections of Space” (dance criticism) San Francisco Review of  Books, July-August 1984.
• “Screen Gem: A Blithe Spirit,” biography of Margaret Rutherford by Dawn Langley Simmons (book review) The Bloomsbury Review, April-May 1984
• “Margaret Jenkins Dance Company” (dance criticism) San Francisco Review of Books, February 1981.
• “Carolee Schneemann: More Than Meat Joy” edited by Bruce McPherson (book review) American Book Review .Sept./Oct, 1980.
• “Diane DiPrima: A Litany to Female-ness” review of Loba (book review) Contact II, September 1980