Ann E. Michael 

Poet, essayist, librettist, and educator Ann E. Michael is Writing Coordinator at DeSales University. Her work has been published in many journals, including Poem, Natural Bridge, Ninth Letter, Runes, Diner, Sentence, Slant, ISLE, The Writer’s Chronicle, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts and others, as well as in numerous literary anthologies. She is a past recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her chapbooks include More than Shelter, The Minor Fauna, Small Things Rise & Go, and The Capable Heart. Her full-length collection, Water-Rites, is forthcoming (2012) from Brick Road Poetry Press.

Ann E. Michael writes a blog that features philosophy, poetry, art and nature at www.annemichael.wordpress.com

Ms. Michael has written libretti for cantatas and choral works and is currently at work on an opera libretto for composer Alla Borzova.

Ann E. Michael's expertise extends to editing and tutoring for academic writing at all levels, undergraduate to post-graduate.

Current Position

Writing Coordinator, Academic Resource Center, DeSales University, Center Valley, PA; position held since August 2007

Education

Goddard College. MFA-Creative Writing, July, 2003. Creative thesis: Water-Rites, poems (forthcoming in 2012 from Brick Road Poetry Press). Critical thesis: “Past, Present, and Possible: How Time Works in the Poem” (published in Writer's Chronicle)

Thomas Jefferson College. BPhil. Arts & Literature, 1979 (Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI)

Associations

ASCAP

Association of American University Women

Associated Writing Programs

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)

Lehigh Valley Arts Council

Modern Language Association

National Council of Teachers of English

Pennsylvania Association of Developmental Educators

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Pennsylvania Humanities Council: ReadAboutIt! Registered Book Discussion Leader

Poets&Writers, Inc.: listed in A Directory of American Poetry and Fiction Writers

Teachers & Writers, Inc.





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