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Shelley Sanders

Shelly Sanders is an assistant professor of English at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. A former varsity high-school swimmer, she enjoys playing bocce on occasion as well as tennis. She studied creative writing at Emerson College, has been published in Aethlon and Windhover, and has her Ph.D. in feminism and sport literature from The University of Texas at Arlington.

No Wake Zone

Rhonda Saldivar is a graduate of Spelman College (B.A.), George Peabody College for Teachers (M.S.) and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D.).  Her fields of interest include her master’s thesis on southern local color and southwestern humor and her doctoral dissertation on the influence of the National Council of Teachers of English on the treatment of Blacks and Black Educational Issues.  In 1985, she joined the English department at Texas Southern University and currently serves as interim department head.  During her tenure, she has taught courses in literary criticism, advanced composition, British and American literature, world literature, freshman and honors English.  She has also served on or chaired numerous department and university committees as well as community boards.  She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, Conference of College Teachers of English, Modern Language Association, Southern Comparative Literature Association and Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.  Her most recent and pending articles, essays and reviews include The Life of Carlos Fuentes for The Compendium of 20th Century World Novelists and Novels (2006), a critical review of “African Myth and Folklore” essay for Comparative Literature (2006), “Intimations of the Poetic Style of Emily Dickinson as Manifested in the Poetry of Stephen Crane” (2005), “Border Conflicts and the Quest for Cultural Identity” (2006), and The Life of Josephine Brown (2007). 

Border Conflicts and the Quest for Cultural Identity

Jerry Bradley is Professor of English at Lamar University. He is the author of four books including The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s (criticism, Twayne) and Simple Versions of Disaster (poetry, University of North Texas Press), which was commended by the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Bradley was chosen as the 2000 Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year by the Texas College English Association, and he received the 2005 Frances Hernandez Teacher-Scholar Award by the Conference of College Teachers of English. He was named Outstanding Alumnus from Midwestern State University's College of Liberal Arts in 2002. He has served on the literature panel of the Texas Commission on the Arts, and in 1996 he received the British Literature Award from the College Conference of Teachers of English.

Jerry is the author of more than one hundred fifty published stories and poems and has published more than thirty critical articles and eighty reviews; he has received more than forty grants in support of his literary activities, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, and the New Mexico Arts Division. His poetry has appeared in many literary magazines including New England Review, American Literary Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Poetry Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review.

He is currently poetry editor of Concho River Review, having founded and edited for sixteen years New Mexico Humanities Review. He is also president of the Conference of College Teachers of English and past-president of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association.

Selected Poems

A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody is Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Kennedy-King College, Chicago, IL. Glacier Fire, her most recent book, won the Word Press Poetry Prize.  Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein published her poem “Walking Under Night Sky” in his cassette “Bread & Steel: Illinois Poets Reading from Their Works.”

Candle & Matches: Following Elizabeth

Jerry Craven has published 20 books including three collections of poetry. He has taught for five universities in three countries and has lived for extended periods of time in South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Currently he is Visiting Writer in Residence at Lamar University.

Time for Real Light

Sherry Craven

Sherry Craven has lived from Alaska to Georgia, Los Angeles to Washington D.C. but has called Texas home for the last 30 years. She has taught English, and Spanish in high school and English at Midland College and West Texas A & M University. Sherry recently retired and lives on Lake Sam Rayburn in the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas.

Sherry has published poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her poetry has appeared in online journals such as AmarolloBay and Muse2.

She has published flash fiction in Suddenly, and poetry in both English and Spanish in RiverSedge.  Her poetry has been in four editions of  New Texas, The Witness, Windhover, descant, El Locofoco, the Maverick Press, and The Texas Review. She has also read poetry for National Public Radio and several college campuses nationwide. Her work appears in the 2002 anthology, Texas in Poetry 2 and a creative piece of nonfiction in Writing on the Wind, a collection of essays by West Texas women writing about sense of place. She won the  Conference of College Teachers of English 2005 poetry award.

Selected Poems

Peggy Pritchard Kulesz

Peggy Pritchard Kulesz is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as faculty advisor to the UTA English Student Association. Dr. Kulesz is a graduate of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, and she holds both a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in English from UTA. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century American literature and religion, pedagogical issues, and American women writers. She has presented numerous conference papers drawn from her research on Phoebe Cary, Anna Warner and Elizabeth Prentiss. Her article “Telling the Story: The Devotional Writing of Anna Warner and Elizabeth Prentiss” appears in Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  In April 2007, Dr. Kulesz received the UTA Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Transparent Teaching: A Pedagogy for Success

Rebecca Dark, an assistant professor of English at Dallas Baptist University, holds a Masters degree in Modern Literature from The University of Texas Arlington and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English there.  The primary focus of her studies is medieval and early modern British literature with an additional emphasis on gender theory.  She taught English for thirteen years in Texas public schools and spent eleven of those years at M. B. Lamar High School in Arlington.  For the past three years Professor Dark has taught a class for English education majors at DBU who are preparing for their competency tests including the TExES ELA 8-12 examination.

“Classic” Canons and Inclusion: Preparing Candidates for the
TExES ELA 8-12 Test and the Classroom

2006 Publications