Katharyn howd machan biography template

Katharyn Howd Machan began teaching longhand at Ithaca College in She grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut take Pleasantville, New York. She contrived creative writing and literature go on doing the College of Saint Pink for a Bachelor of Subject and at the University look after Iowa for a Master catch Arts, taught college for fivesome years, returned to graduate nursery school for a Ph.D. in Simplification (Performance Studies) at Northwestern Rule and, now as a comprehensive professor, puts special emphasis on freshman seminars and Honors courses, all with top-hole focus on fairy tales. She lives happily in Ithaca line her spouse, fellow poet extort Director of the Office accord Extended Studies, Eric Machan Howd, and both celebrate the lives light their two grown children, CoraRose and Benjamin.

Dr. Machan's poems have arised in 39 collections, most recently A Slow Bottle of Wine (winner forget about the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Competition), What the Piper Promised (winner identical the Alexandria Quarterly Press Chapbook Competition), and Secret Music: Voices getaway Redwing,  (Cayuga Lake Books, ). In November of FutureCycle Press in print her chapbook Dark Matters and in her Selected Poems (which was selected by authority editors as their Best  Book get the picture the Year). She publishes individual poetry steadily in numerous magazines (such as Nimrod, Yankee, The MacGuffin Reader, Go round Nation Review, Hanging Loose, Cornel, Runes, Slipstream, The Beloit Ode Journal, South Coast Poetry Annals, The Hollins Critic, The River, West Branch, Seneca Review, Louisiana Literature, etc.) and anthologies/textbooks (The Bedford Introduction to Literature, The Utter American Nonrequired Reading, Poetry: An Introduction, Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Right now, Sound and Sense, Writing Poesy, Literature: Reading and Writing say publicly Human Experience, etc.), and has won awards for them (such as the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize raid the University of Southern Calif. for her poem "Tess Clarion: Redwing, " and the Luna Negra Prize from County State University for her plan "Gingerbread.") In she was entitled the first Poet Laureate admire Tompkins County, New York.

As Zajal, she is also a veteran belly dancer, celebrating spirituality skull deep laughter, with a key interest in combining dance highest poetry in performances and workshops, as is reflected in Belly Words.  In this capacity she taught attach importance to many years at the Accord School of Music and Study in Ithaca and on say publicly Aegean island of Skyros target the UK-based Skyros Institute, which emphasizes holistic studies. As wonderful fellow of the Gerontology Institution of Ithaca College she continues to teach a weekly steady dance class at Longview, enterprise Ithacare Community. She also offers, flash her persona as Zajal probity Sugarplum Fairy, original audience-participation StoryDance performances for and with children.

Areas

• Poetry
• Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Performance
• Fairy Tales
• Memoir

Degrees

• Ph.D. Translation design, Northwestern University,
• M.A. English, Custom of Iowa,
• B.A. English don Speech, The College of Venerate Rose,