Associate Professor of English & Women's Studies
Office Location: HE 421
Phone Number: (262) 472-5056
Email Address: townsena@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                            B.A., Marlboro College
M.F.A., "1992 MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts"

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                          Creative Writing, Women's Studies

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                              Creative Nonfiction, Advanced Writers Studio, Nature Writing, Prose Stylistics, The Literary Memoir, Current Writing Scene, Writing as a Way of Healing, Introduction to Creative Writing, Freshman English, Women's Voices, and Women's Lives

Selected Publications:                                                                                                                                                                     Persephone in America (winner of the 2008 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition, forthcoming in Spring 2009 from Southern Illinois University Press).                                                                                                                                                                      And Still the Music (Flume Press, 2007)                                                                                                                                               The Blue Dress: Poems and Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2003; second printing 2008)                                                               What the Body Knows (Parallel Press, 2002)