Language Experience
résumé · references · computer-related · excerpt from my novel

Completed book-length manuscript of first novel, The Instruction of Idols (unpublished), 1988-92.

Compiled/edited a collection of prison writing and photography, Cold Storage, through the Arts in Corrections program at the Adult Correctional Institutions, Cranston, 1977-78. Had ex­ten­sive personal interaction with male and female inmates population as advisor to prisoners' rights newspaper and in creative writing workshops.

Researched & compiled comprehensive self-help public policy booklet, Workers' Manual, Project Equality of Rhode Island, 1976-77.

Rhode Island Indian Council Inc., a CETA social-service agency established to aid Native Americans, 1975-76.

Copywriter/typesetter for India Imports of Rhode Island, Inc. Display advertising layout and garment description copy for catalogs at clothing import company, 1973-74

News Bureau Assistant, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. Created news releases and photo captions for dissemination to area newspapers, 1971-72.

General assignment reporter for The Woonsocket Call newspaper. I was the Lincoln-Cumberland bureau assistant in 1969.