Responsible for development and coordination of an acquisitions program for a successful, independent, and specialized trade book publisher; management of the book production process from the editorial phase through design and pre-press and subsequently through manufacturing; development and oversight of editorial and production budgets; collaboration with marketing and publicity colleagues in conception of promotional materials and strategy; and intensive developmental editing for more than seventy book projects. From May, 1994, through February, 2000, I was Chelsea Green's Editor-in-Chief.

Responsible for acquisition and editing of limited-edition chapbooks featuring poetic sequences, emphasizing the work of emerging and lesser-known writers. Three books published annually.

Responsible for coordination of pre-production editorial process on a variety of scholarly and trade book projects for a 10-member consortium publisher. Oversaw or undertook intensive line-editing, copyediting, proofreading, indexing, and consultation with designers and typesetters; also drafted and proofread marketing and publicity materials.

Responsible for review and selection of poetry, fiction, essays, and artwork for an international literary quarterly eventually associated with the Bread Loaf Writers Conference of Middlebury College; also coordinated design and production, distribution, advertising, fundraising, and office administration. From August, 1993, until my departure from the magazine I served as Co-Editor.

(writing, literature, Native American Studies, environmental studies)

Tours of Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia with a theatre troupe comprised of over a dozen performers and technicians from more than ten countries.

Part-time performer until January, 1987, then full-time member of director Peter Schumann's world-renowned company. Tours of the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

Author of a chapbook of poems, One Another (Chapiteau Press, 1999). Editor and contributor, Writing in a Nuclear Age (University Press of New England, 1984, second printing 1985). Contributor to Best Spiritual Writing 2000 (HarperCollins, 2000), The New Settler Interviews: Boogie on the Brink (Chelsea Green, 2000), Heartbeat of New England: Contemporary Nature Poetry (Tiger Moon, 2000), The Solar Living Sourcebook (Real Goods, 1999), Mortgage Free: Radical Strategies for Home Ownership (Chelsea Green, 1998), Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry (Iowa University Press, 1995), and The Nightmare Considered: Critical Studies of Nuclear War Literature (Bowling Green University Press, 1991), and the forthcoming The Breath of Parted Lips Volume II (CavanKerry, 2003). Contributor of poems and essays to magazines including Orion, Rivendell, Vermont, In Posse, Ironwood, Crazyhorse, North by Northeast, Northern Woodlands, and New England Review, and frequent book reviewer for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Northern Woodlands. A poem has also been featured on Garrison Keillor's Public Radio International show, The Writer's Almanac, and in Keillor's book Good Poems (Viking Penguin, 2002).

With Bread and Puppet, the Expanding Secret Company, Les Montreurs d'Images, Revels North, Pendium, Flock Dance Troupe, Thistle, and Cabaret Moose: The Difficult Life of Uncle Fatso; Two Villages; The Story of One Who Set Out to Study Fear; Saint Francis Preaches to the Potatoes; Guernica/Esteli; Warsong of the Things; Devil's Contract; Colossal Birthday Party (The Statue of Liberty); Peace Hunger Kitchen; Salut au Monde; Girl in First Position; The Hunger Cantata (Hunger of the Hungry and Hunger of the Overfed); A Tree: Sally Hemmings; The Foot; Life and Death of the Fireman; Archetypal Slogan Circus; Ben Linder; Alexander Nevsky; Emergency Exit Circus; Jehanne Romée; Le Grand Voyage; Salut à la Compagnie; Un Autre Voyage; Lumen; May Day Revels; Summer Revels; The Passion of Estelle Jordan; Elemental; Yo, Hamlet!; Elemental III: Joy; Make No Mistake; Spoon River Anthology; Go! Move! Shift!, Pam: Map of a Country, Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories, a documentary film project produced by the Vermont Historical Society in collaboration with Northern Stage, and numerous poetry readings, staged readings, pageants, political demonstrations, and parades, including a command performance at the inauguration of Czech president Vaclav Havel. Forthcoming performances in 2003 include Give or Take? with Flock Dance Troupe.

Poetry readings have included the Meetinghouse Reading Series, in Canaan, N.H. (1994, 1999); the Friends Meetinghouse, in Hanover, N.H., as a benefit for the Upper Valley Land Trust (1997); The Bean Gallery in Lebanon, N.H. (1997); The Frost Place, in Franconia, N.H. (1997, 2000); Riverfest, in Hartford, Vt. (1996, 1997, 2000); the Full Moon Café, in South Strafford, Vt. (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000); the Lathem Library in Thetford, Vt., as part of the Elizabeth Mines Remediation Project's Copper Mine Arts series (1999); The Town House Readings Series in Strafford, Vt. (1999); The Morrill Memorial - Harris Library, in Strafford, Vt. (1999); Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vt. (1998, 1999); The Good Life Center, in Harborside, Maine (1999); Camp Manito-wish YMCA, in Boulder Junction, Wis. (1999); The Norwich Book Store, in Norwich, Vt. (1999); Della Rossi Trattoria, Dublin, N.H. (2000); The Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, Vt. (2000); The Book Rack, Winooski, Vt. (2001); Bear Pond Bookstore, Montpelier, Vt. (2001); two benefit readings for Vermont Refugee Assistance, with Poets for Peace: Unitarian Church, Montpelier, Vt. and the Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, Vt. (2002); and participation in a statewide series of readings in celebration of the poet Hayden Carruth (2002).

Co-founder and Council Member, Blue Moon Cooperative Community, South Strafford, Vt. (1983 - present); Co-founder and Trustee, Anne Slade Frey Charitable Trust, Hanover, N.H. (1991 - present); Co-founder and Director, PEN-New England North, Hartland, Vt. (1999 - present); Board of Directors, Flock Dance Troupe, Sharon, Vt. (2002 - present); Advisory Board, Vital Communities of the Upper Valley, White River Junction, Vt. (2001 - present); Board of Directors, Strafford Creative Preschool, Strafford, Vt. (1999 - 2000); Trustee, The Frost Place, Franconia, N.H. (1997 - 98); Co-founder and Trustee, EarthRight Institute, environmental advocacy and education center, White River Junction, Vt. (1988 - 90); Board member, Upper Valley War Tax Alternative Fund, Hanover, N.H. (1982-86); Board of Directors, renewable energy educator, and nonviolence trainer, Upper Valley Energy Coalition, Lebanon, N.H. (1978 - 81); Coordinating Committee, Clamshell Alliance, New England-wide antinuclear coalition (1978).