Faculty & Staff
- Lisa Hermsen
- Lisa Diaz
- Sharon Beckford-Foster
- Doris Borrelli
- A.J. Caschetta
- Collette Caton
- Babak Elahi
- Catherine Faurot
- Robert Glick
- Gail Hosking
- Shelly Jansen
- Julie M. Johannes
- David Martins
- Stanley McKenzie
- Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
- Amit Ray
- Linda M. Reinfeld
- John Roche
- Sandra Saari
- Richard Santana
- Michael Sarnowski
- Laura Shackelford
- Elena R. Sommers
- Thomas Stone
- Paulette Swartzfager
- Karen vanMeenen
- Selma Wilson Jacobson
- Dianna Winslow
Visiting Assistant Professor
A110 Liberal Arts
Phone: (585) 475-6117
Email: mesgla@rit.edu
M.F.A. in Creative Writing- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
B.A. in English- State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
Creative Writing: poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; composition; modern and contemporary poetry and fiction; literature of war; literature of trauma, loss, and coping; American culture WWII-present.
Courses Taught:
Writing Seminar (0502-227)
Worlds of Writing (0502-449)
Writing the Self and Others (0502-455)
Arts of Expression: Trauma, Loss, and Coping in Contemporary Literature (0504-319)
Introduction to Poetry, Intro to Poetry Workshop, Critical Writing.
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Poetry:
"A Sudden Tilt of the Head". r.kv.r.y. Literary Journal. April 2013.
“Tom and Margaret”. Memoir Journal. Issue 12. 2013.
"New Religion". Spry Literary Journal. Issue 1. December 2012.
“Reading Akhmatova”. Mason’s Road, Issue 5. August 2012.
“Judy Garland, Live in Chelsea, London, June 23rd, 1969” and “Self Portrait”. Black Heart Magazine. August 2011.
“Quiet Nights in the Afterlife” and “Emptying Lots”. Blast Furnace. Volume I, Issue II. May 2011.
“This is Not Ukraine, This is my Apartment”. Potomac Review. Issue 48. 2010.
“New Hollows”. Underground Voices. May 2010.
“Bloodspitters”. Gutter Eloquence, Issue #9. May 2010.
“48 Minutes”. Foundling Review. April 2010, Issue 3.
“A Little Bit About Myself”. Calliope Nerve. April 2010.
“Thawing the Bones” and “Aubade”. The Adirondack Review. Summer Issue 2009.
“Bombs Away,” “Bury Us Quick,” and “Joan of Arc, 1939”. The South Wing. May 2009.
“Dear Doctors,” “82nd and Edison,” and “If Life Has an Exit Interview”. Tabula Rasa. Spring 2009.
“Inheritance”. The Broken Plate. Ball State University. 2009.
“The Way It Finds You”. The Good Things About America. Write Bloody Publishing. January 2009.
“On Writing, On Life”. The Honey Land Review. November 2008.
“Relocating,” “The New Dead Language," "A Simple Request for When I Die," "Thoughts from 20,000 and Falling," and "An Open Letter to the Natural World". Versus Magazine. 2008.
Kiss Americana chapbook. Planbook Journals Press, May 2007.
We Are the New Town Criers chapbook. Planbook Journals Press, September 2006.
"Losing Faith" and "Hallows”. The Leader Newspaper, Spring 2006.
Other:
“The Starlet and the Projectionist”. Blue Chain Language. Pilotless. Too Much Sleep Records. July 2008.
“Write Bloody Publishing: A Bare Knuckle Challenge to the Poetry World”. www.writebloody.com. June 2008.
“To Teach A Hundred”. How We Are. To Teach A Hundred. Triple Attack Records. September 2006.
“The Validity of Spring and All as an Argument Against The Waste Land”. Universal Journal: The Association of Young Journalists and Writers. May 2006. http://ayjw.org/articles.php?id=762180
