I've taught poetry in a wide variety of settings from primary school classrooms to maximum security prisons, and have written widely about this work in books and journals including PMLA and Teaching Artist Journal.

In California, I created Arts-in-Corrections’ newsletter, wrote their book-length Manual for Artists Working in Prison, and developed the Handbook for Arts in the Youth Authority Program. I have also completed a feasibility study for arts programming in Minnesota state prisons; chaired panels and served as keynote speaker at many conferences on prison, prison arts, and teaching arts; and taught in prisons in eight states.

I served as training coordinator for WritersCorps in San Francisco from 1994 - 2014.