Pedigogy: Creative Writing, Composition, Mentoring
Creative Writing
Creative Writing Committee Chairperson at MATC from 2019 to present:
Spring 2022, led committee revision and development of Introduction to Creative Writing course
February 2022, hosted Dasha Kelly Hamilton campus wide workshop at MATC
June 8, 2019, Workshop and Book Signing, “Music as Literary Influence,” Write On, Door County, Door County, Wisconsin
A replacement video designed to hold this place as I create my new lectures
Coming Soon: larger body of work on composition/essay writing
Composition
November 4, 2022, The Importance of the Pronoun “We.”
November 11, 2019, C. D. Wright Women’s Writers Conference, “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
Mentoring
March 2022, guest speaker Dr. Maria Abegunde’s presented to Milwaukee Area Technical College: “The Things Our Students Carry With Them: How Culture and Context Shape Mentoring Relationships.
Chairperson of the Stormer Connect Mentoring Committee at Milwaukee Area Technical College from 2019 to present.
2020, Interview, Part II, “Conversation between Mary Cantrell, Vida Cross, Rachel Hall and Anna Leahy: The Path remains a thicket” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 6, Issue 5
2020, Interview Part I, “Conversation between Mary Cantrell, Vida Cross, Rachel Hall and Anna Leahy: The Path remains a thicket” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 6, Issue 4
November 9, 2018, C. D. Wright Women’s Writers Conference, “Finding Our Ways: Role Models, Mentors, Friends,” Conway. Arkansas, work presented by Vida Cross, Anna Leahy, Rachel Hall and Mary Cantrell