| elmazAbinader Country of Origin Productions awards and accomplishments |
| Related Positions Judge, Literature Residency, Headlands Arts. September 2006 Resident Artists Villa Montalvo, May 2006 Judge State Grants for Artists, Wyoming, 2004 Member, Selection Committee Fulbright Senior Scholars, Egypt and Israel, 2002-2004 Member, Selection Committee Civitella Ranieri Residencies, 2002 Advisory Board,Arab American Museum Project, 2002 Faculty Member Creative Non-Fiction and Collaboration, VONA Voices Writing Workshops Workshop Leader Creative Non-Fiction, Residency Hurston Wright Writers Week West 1998 & 1999 USIA Speaker--Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Palestine, Israel; Morocco1993, 1996, 1998-99 Visiting Artist--State Department, Haiti and Dominican Republic, 2002;Germany And Spain, 2003; Venezuela, 2004 Co-Founder--Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Faculty Director , The Place for Writers at Mills College, 1994-current Board Member Associated Writers Programs (AWP) 1995-1998 Board Member Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) 1999+ |
| Professional History Frederick Rice Chair of English, Department Head, Mills College 2004-6 Professor,Creative Writing,Mills College,1993-Current Visiting Professor, American Literature Helwan University, Cairo 1998-1999 Associate Professor, Creative Writing San Jose State University 1991-1993 Associate Professor, Creative Writing John Jay College-CUNY 1987-1991 Schweitzer Post Doctoral Fellowship SUNY-Albany, 1985-1987 Instructor , English & Creative Writing University of Nebraska, 1981-1985 Education Ph.D. English, Creative Writing University of Nebraska 1985 MFA Poetry Writing Columbia University 1978 B.A. Writing & Communication University of Pittsburgh 1974 |