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Stories from the Ruins: Sixteen Poems about 9/11 in
the body is as solid as the thought that holds it in place. Handmade hardcover bilingual edition of 25, with handmade Peruvian ceramic beads and microscope slide inclusions and bone clasps. Poems and photographs by Carlos Schröder; book design by Lee Kottner. Forthcoming.
Border and Frontier. Handmade hardcover Venetian blind binding with vintage maps and lampwork beads. Poem by Carlos Schröder; book design by Lee Kottner. Edition of 25. 2006.
Highfield's Recipes From a Good Life. Handbound hardcover one-of-a-kind anniversary album with photographs, graphics, keepsakes, and engineered pages. 2005.
Stories from the Ruins: Sixteen Poems about 9/11. Handbound hardcover triptych edition with hardware cloth attachment, tags, and engineered pages. Edition of 100. 2002.
Between Us. One-off series of four assorted handbound hardcover accordion bindings. Poems and design by Lee Kottner. 1996.
The Last Kiss Before It All Changes. Pamphlet-sewn chapbook. Poems, graphics, and design by Lee Kottner. 1993.
“The Bear Dancer.” Strange Horizons. October 2002.
"A little sadness for the things gone." Silk Road, vol.3, issue 1, 2008.
"Blind Spots." caesura, Fall 2007.
“Totems I” Astropoetica, October 2003.
“Blue Door.” Combat Magazine, Vol 1. No. 2, 2003.
“In the Marrow.” Poetix Columbia memorial site, February 1, 2003.
Stories from the Ruins: Sixteen Poems about 9/11. New York: Another Grid Kid Production, 2002. (Limited hand-bound hardcover edition of 100.) In the Graphic Arts collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
“Consolations,” “Nomenclature,” and “Jacob’s Ladder.” The Online Journal of Education, Media and Health: Issue on Terrorism, 2001-2002. World Association for Online Education. September, 2002. (Selections from Stories From the Ruins.)
“Teach a Man to Fish” and “Up for Air.” Fresh Water: Poems of the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams. Johnstown, Ohio: Pudding House Press, 2002.
“Keeping Our Distance.” Women’s Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment: Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper, Elayne Clift, ed. Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press, 2002.
“A Small Moon, Scudding Clouds.” Meanie, Spring 1999.
“Postcard from Home #5.” Live Poets, Vol. I, Issue II, 1992.
The Heart’s Cathedral. Amherst, MA: Bluestone Press, 1992.
“Totems II” and “Up for Air.” West, 6 (Spring 1992).
“Three Days Naming.” West, I:3 (March 1991).
“The Thief of Dreams.” Dreamworks: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 5:3/4, 1988.
“Swimming: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny.” Red Cedar Review, 17 (Spring 1985).
“Wielding the Iron.”Red Cedar Review, 17 (Spring 1985).
“Wrapping Pennies.” Red Cedar Review, 17 (Spring 1985).
“Orange Vision on a Theme by Judy Chicago.” Labyris: A Feminist Arts Journal, 5:13 (Spring-Summer 1985).
Letters from the Heart Project Anthology. 2005. Honorable Mention as Lizzy Tish.
Review of Elizabeth Hand’s Black Light. Event Horizon, April 8, 1999.
“Bishnupur,” in The International Dictonary of Historic Places, Vol. V, Asia & Oceania, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996.
“Taking the Science Out of Science Fiction.” Review of Sherri S. Tepper’s Raising the Stones and Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton. Women’s Review of Books, VIII, 7:April 1991.
“New Worlds for Women.” Review of Ursula K. LeGuin’s Tehanu, the Last Book of Earthsea; Laurie J. Marks’ The Moonbane Mage; Kathleen M. O’Neal’s An Abyss of Light; Fay Weldon’s The Cloning of Joanna May; and Memories and Visions: Women’s Fantasy and Science Fiction, Susanna J. Sturgis, ed. Women’s Review of Books, VII:10-11: July 1990.
“Literature’s Black Sheep: Stretching the Definition.” Review of The Best of Pamela Sargent, Martin H. Greenberg, ed., and Women of Vision: Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction, Denis DuPont, ed. Belles Lettres, Spring 1989.
Review of Unholy Alliances by Louise Rafkin. Belles Lettres, Winter 1989.
“One Giant Leap for Disney.” Questar (later Quest/Star) Magazine, June 1981.
“Rehabilitating Motherhood: Looking Forward in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.” (Also Session Chair.) Popular Culture Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 7-10, 1990.
“’The God of War and Literature’: Myths and Role Models in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Conference in Modern Literature, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Oct. 4, 1985.
“Langland and Minstrelsy.” Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Oct. 15, 1983.
Honorable Mention for "The Bear Dancer" from The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling.
Red Cedar Review/Jim Cash Poetry Award, Michigan State University, 1984.
Teaching Fellowship, Michigan State University, 1982-1986.
Recruitment Scholarship, Michigan State University, 1982-83.
Vira Heinz Summer Study Abroad Award, Chatham College, Vira I. Heinz Fund, Pittsburgh Foundation, 1981.
The Beatrice Lewis Creative Writing Prize, Chatham College, 1980.
None Untouched. Poetry collection, in progress.
Postcards from Home. Artist’s book of 12 poems, in progress.
The Gates. Short Story collection/novel, in
progress.
Prospero’s Daughter. Novel.
Complete but unpublished. Excerpts won an honorable mention from the DelRey Online Writing Workshop.