Assistant Professor
Office Location: HE 442
Phone Number: (262) 472-5042
Email Address: annuccim@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             B.A., Assumption College
M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Developmental Composition, Freshman Composition, Young Adult Literature, Professional Writing, Manuscript Editing.

Select Publications:                                                                                                                                                                          Poetry in Journals:                                                                                                                                                                                "To Velcro: Two Sides" and "Greshniki" Prairie Schooner 81:3 (2007): 120-121                                                                               "Supplicants" Sou'wester 5:2 (2007)                                                                                                                                                    "St. Luke Drawing a Portrait of the Virgin" Rosebud 37 (2006): 87                                                                                                     "The Origin of the Clock" Ed. Elisabeth R. Owens. Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets. Madison, WI: Parallel Press, 2006. 10    "Commute" 5 AM 24 (2006)                                                                                                                                                                  "Cassowary" and "The Crow" The Southern Poetry Review 44:1 (2006)                                                                                           "Cosmography" Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Spring 2005 (Second-Place prize winner, 2003 Tin House Summer Literary Contest)                                                                                                                                                                                   "Aperture" The Journal, Vol. 29.1, Spring/Summer 2005                                                                                                                    "Bodies of Water" Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XX:2 (2003)                                                                                           "This Woman, This Outfielder" 5 AM 17                                                                                                                                                "Girl Listening" and "Wrecked World" Arts & Letters 5 (2001). "Wrecked World" also appeared on Poetry Daily's web site and is in Poetry's Daily's anthology of selected poems from its first five years.                                                                                           Luck (Parallel Press 2000)

Fiction and Creative Nonfiction in Journals:                                                                                                                                         "Wanting to Stay" Maize 4 (2005) (First-place fiction prize winner $1,000, sponsored by Indiana Writers' Center)                          "Like Being in the Girls' Room, Only Different" essay, RATTLE, Vol. 24                                                                                             "Cow Jumped Over" lyrical prose, Quarter After Eight, Volume 9

Presentations:                                                                                                                                                                                      "Lesbians in Their Father's Kingdom: Poetry of Robin Becker and Gwen Ebert (paper presented for panel discussion, "Prophets, Protesters, and American Women Poets of Outrage and Redemption.") The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900." Feb. 21-23, 2008.
"Like Being in the Girls' Room, Only Different" (paper presented for panel discussion, "Our Writing Ourselves/Growing Older: What Women Writers Have To Say Now and Next"). Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 2005.
"Upholding and Challenging the Boundaries of Genre" (paper presented for panel discussion, "Stepping Into the Interstices: Genre Blur"). Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Baltimore, MD. February 2003.