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Professor of
English
Station 22
Wallace Hall 110
(205) 652-3470
jwt@uwa.edu |
Degrees: |
Ph.D.,
Florida State
University, 1985
M.A., Florida
State
University, 1981
B.A., University
of Kentucky,
1974 |
Employment
Date: |
1990 |
Classes
usually taught: |
- The Comic Novel
- Modern Novel
- Medical Ethics
- British Literature 1 (survey for juniors & seniors)
- Introduction to Literature, Story & Poem (survey for all sophomores)
- Creative Writing (poetry & fiction & creative non-fiction, some graduates)
- Creative Writing Practicum
- Chaucer (mostly undergraduate level, some graduates)
- Introduction to Literature, Novel & Drama (survey for all sophomores)
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Additional
UWA Assignments: |
The Livingston
Press
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Editing
Experience: |
- 1993 to present, Livingston Press
- To date, have typeset 100 books on Adobe PageMaker, InDesign
- To date, have designed or supervised 100 covers on Adobe Illustrator
- To date, have typeset and designed or supervised 18 catalogues on Adobe PageMaker, InDesign
- To date, have typeset and designed or supervised 80 postcards on Adobe PageMaker
- Edited 80 books
- 1984 to present, Swallow’s Tale Press
- Designed 12 covers
- Edited 12 books
- 1990 to 1993, The Sucarnochee Review
- Typeset and designed 3 issues of this perfect-bound literary magazine
- 1983-1985, Swallow’s Tale Magazine
- Edited 5 issues of this literary magazines
- 1986, Peachtree Press, Atlanta
- Worked as a reader for one year
- 1980-1984, The Sun Dog (Florida State University)
- Edited 5 issues of this perfect-bound literary magazine
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Works
Circulating: |
- Masques for the Fields of Time, story collection
- Persephone's Escalator, comic fantasy novel
- The Theoretics of Love, a novel
- Child’s Play, story collection
- Bad Form, a comic fantasy novel.
- Feather Truth, a literary novel
- The Baron, The Bear, and The Bees, a comic literary novel
- The Once and Future Bunion, a comic literary novel
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Publications
(Books) |
- Tartts, 2005 (editor), Swallow’s Tale Press/Livingston Press
- The World’s Thinnest Fat Man, 2005, Swallow’s Tale Press
- Some Heroes, Some Heroines, Some Others, 2002, Swallow’s Tale Press
- Belles’ Letters: An Anthology of Alabama Women Writers (co-editor), 1995
- Oldcat & Ms Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me, 1998, Black Belt Press
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Publications
(Stories): |
- 2005
- “My Ode to Sylvia Plath” Hotel Amerika
- 2004
- “Factoid Directionals” Square Lake
- “Mademoiselle Preg. Nante” anthologized in The Crucifix Is Down
- “The Soft Queen of Dissolution” Gihon River Review
- “Mademoiselle Preg. Nante” Lake Effect
- “Sifting Karma, American Style,” Rive Gauche
- “The Phantom Tipper” Honeydu
- 2003
- “And Monkey Do” Foliate Oak
- “Oh, Children Mine” River City
- 2001
- “Moon Trees: A Gentle Ontology” Apalachee Quarterly
- 1996
- "The Great Humus" Hayden's Ferry Review
- 1995
- "Saturdays" The Best of The Chattahoochee Review
- 1994
- "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk, The Man Who Wouldn't Listen" The Southern Anthology
- "Number Four, Please" & "Sleepless Hollow" Yemassee
- "Doing Own Thing" Cornfield Review
- "My Life as an Imaginary Number" The George Washington Review
- "Cold Sores, Body Odor and Credit Cards" A Gathering of the Tribes
- 1993
- "Saturdays" The Chattahoochee Review
- "On the Importance of Gulls" William & Mary Review
- 1991
- "Welcome to the Pleistocene and Land" anthologized in Subtropical Speculations, by Pineapple Press
- 1990
- "The Odds Against Going to Heaven" in Beloit Fiction Journal
- "The Poet" Erihidu
- 1989
- "The Power" anthologized in Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction, 2nd ed., Little Brown
- "Momma Jack" anthologized in Stories from a Tough Place, White Mule Press
- "The Ghost of Christmas Future" Pikeville Review
- 1988
- "Stars Is Stars" Cream City Review
- 1987
- "Shine on, Pops" Apalachee Quarterly
- "A Puff of Roses" The Virginia Quarterly Review
- 1986
- "Hamburger and America" The Chattahoochee Review
- "Heroes and Heroines, for an Atomic Age"
- Sequoia, The Stanford Literary Magazine
- "America, Taken as a Wagon" The Florida Review
- "Out of the Trees" The Cotton Bole/Atlanta Review
- "A Gentle Glow" The South Carolina Review
- "All of Them Do" The Sucarnochee Review
- "Da" The Crescent Review
- 1985
- "Dark Cloud" The Sucarnochee Review
- "Hound of Heaven" Willow Springs
- 1984
- "First Blood, Final Blood" Sun Dog/The Southeast Review
- "Highway One, Revisited" The Florida Review
- 1983
- "Love: Five Tales and Talk Thereof" Crosscurrents
- "Focal Point" The Montana Review
- "Judas" Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction, Little, Brown
- "The Tower" West Branch
- "The Power" TriQuarterly
- "Enlightenment" Cimarron Review
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Works-in-Progress: |
- The Theoretics of Love, storynovel
- The First, Spinning Moment, a novel using quantum physics as a controlling metaphor
- Dappled Things (working title), a novel set in Alabama modeled after Ave Maria Grotto
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