![]() In the year between college and grad school, I worked as a receptionist while continuing to write. Tell us about how you found your first job, and how you found your current job (if different). Projects to date have included writing lessons for a Grade K language arts textbook, writing rhyming poems for a Grade 1 poetry anthology, editing digital activities for an elementary reading intervention program, and copyediting academic books for a university press. The work is complex and varies from client to client, which I enjoy. These days I’m on kid duty during the day, and I work at night after my daughter and son are in bed. When I received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011, the financial cushion gave me the courage to leave my full-time job and begin freelancing from home. ![]() ![]() After college graduation, I earned an MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University, taught creative writing at Gettysburg College for a year, published my first book of poems, Lamp of the Body, got married, and began a career in publishing. I worked in educational and trade book publishing for several years, balancing full-time editorial work, poetry writing, and family. ![]()
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