Book Publications

Poetry

The Third Body, Cherry Grove Collections, 2007, Cincinnati, Ohio

Keeper, Mammoth Books, 2004, DuBois, Pennsylvania

Standing up to the Day, Pecan Grove Press, 1999, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas

Up We Traveled, Primera Libra Press, San Francisco, 1993 (chapbook, limited edition)

Non-Fiction & Anthology

Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction, with Tim Schell(Prentice Hall, 2^nd ed. 2003)

A Writer’s Country, ed. Jeff Knorr & Tim Schell (Prentice Hall, 2000)

The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry, (Prentice Hall, 2003)

Teaching Experience

Professor, Literature & Creative Writing, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA

Teach literature, creative writing, and composition through traditional workshop, discussion, and lecture formats, and computer assisted classrooms. Direct the River City Writers Series. Hold office hours for students. Participate in departmental and campus-wide committees. (Current Tenured, Full-time Position, beginning 2001)

English Professor, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR

Taught composition, creative writing, and literature in traditional and computer-assisted classroom environments. Held office hours for students. Participated on departmental and campus-wide committees. (Full-time, Tenured, 1994 to 2001)

Faculty, Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, Portland, OR

Worked with third through fifth grade classes in Portland Public Schools during week-long writer's residencies to improve writing skills through poetry and fiction. (October 2000-February 2001)

English Instructor, Chabot College, Hayward, CA

Taught college-level composition, literature, and creative writing. (Adjunct, August 1992 to August 1994)

English Instructor, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA

Taught developmental and college-level composition. Taught composition by college contract to cohorts at National Semiconductor. (Adjunct, January 1993-July 1994)

Selected Readings and Presentations

Wordstock, Des Moines Festival of Literary Arts, CSU Sacramento Summer Writers Festival, University of Pennsylvania; University of Portland; Willamette University; Community College of Southern Nevada; Glendale Community College; Butte College; Sacramento Poetry Center; Sacramento City College; Cosumnes River College; Pierce County Writers Guild, Distinguished Writers Series; Willamette Valley Writer’s Guild; Looking Glass Books, Portland; Broadway Books, Portland; Borders Books, Portland; Carnegie Arts Center, Oregon City; Talking Earth, KBOO 91.7 FM, Portland; Conference on College Composition and Rhetoric, “How Teachers Find Time To Write”; AWP National Conference, 1998 & 99, “Creative Writing in the Two Year Colleges”; AWP National Conference, 2003, “Building Options: Developing CW Programs at the 2 Year College; and others.

Editorial & Other Writing Experience

Director, River City Writers Series, 2002- present, Founding Director of authors series presenting nationally acclaimed and emerging authors to the Sacramento City College Community and public.

Invited Author, Wordstock, Portland, Oregon, November 9^th-11^th, 2007; CSU Sacramento Writers Festival, July, 2007; Wordstock, Portland, Oregon April 22^nd-24^th, 2006; Des Moines Festival of Literary Arts, April 12-16, 2004

Invited Judge, Red Rock Poetry Prize, Red Rock Review, 2003; Willamette Award in Poetry, Clackamas Literary Review, 2002; AWP Award Series in the Novel, 2000. Read novel manuscripts and selected finalists for Thomas Dunne Books.

Invited Judge, Prentice Hall/ Hayden’s Ferry Review undergraduate creative writing contest in Poetry. Winners receive publication and scholarship.

Video Interview, Writers on Writing, Prentice Hall companion website with interviews by emerging and established writers such as Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Alberto Rios and others.

Founding Co-Editor/Poetry Editor, Clackamas Literary Review. Responsible for distribution with Ingram Periodicals, budget management, grant writing, production/printing, advertising/marketing, cover art selection; also performed lead editorial role in selection of poetry and assisted in selection of fiction. Awarded Best New Magazine, 1997 by the Community College Humanities Association; “Kansas” by Steven Dobyns selected by Amy Tan for Best American Short Stories 1999.

Grants & Awards

Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Council, Arts in the Community Grant, 2003

Nominated for 2000 Oregon Book Award in Poetry for Standing Up To the Day

Clackamas Community College Foundation grants for CLR 1996, '97, '98 totaling $15,000

Education

Master of Arts, Literature, California State University, Chico, 1992

Bachelor of Arts, English, California State University, Chico, 1988

Complete publication list & references available on request

also visit www.scc.losrios.edu/~knorrj