Resume

• 1993

  MFA

  Worked with Alan Cheuse and Susan Richards Shreve. Won the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for best student fiction and a University Fellowship.

  Creative Writing

  George Mason University

• 1991

  Bachelor of Liberal Studies

  Received top student writing awards for fiction and nonfiction.

  Fine Arts and Humanities/Literature

  Alpha Sigma Nu

  the Honor Society for Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

• 1988

  Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives

  Responsible for fundraising

  outreach and administration for a small historical society devoted to American participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Obtained a Ford Foundation grant for a research project on \"African Americans in the Spanish Civil War' that became a book by that title (Macmillan 1992). \nEdited \"The Volunteer

  \" the newsletter of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB)>

  Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives

  Columnist and Contributing Writer

  Monthly column on media and popular culture and other features and reviews

  all available at www.sojo.net

  Sojourners

  Professor of English

  Teach composition

  literature and creative writing. Serve as faculty advisor to The Kentucky River literary journal.

  Kentucky State University

  popular culture columnist

  Writes a quarterly review essay on trends in popular culture and regular reviews of popular music. All available at www.uscatholic.org

  U.S. Catholic

• 1980

  Sojourners Magazine

  Editor for monthly culture section. Responsible for issue planning

  solicitation and editing of feature articles

  writing reviews

  features

  news and editorials on a monthly basis.

  Sojourners Magazine

• Literature

  Non-fiction

  Feature Articles

  Writing

  Creative Writing

  Newspaper

  Editing

  Books

  Blogging

  Teaching

  Fundraising

  Grant Writing

  Newsletters

  Magazines

  Community Outreach

  Proofreading

  Public Speaking

  Editorial

  White Boy: A Novel

  In 1961

  when the first Freedom Ride rolls into Jackson

  one Mississippi white boy

  Tommy Jackson

  is watching and waiting. His young life was already turned upside down by the arrival of rock and roll and by the racial violence that ruled his hometown. When he sees the Freedom Riders

  he stops being a silent witness and takes action. White Boy depicts the world seen in the 2009 best-seller

  The Help

  but from a grittier working-class perspective.

  White Boy: A Novel

  In the historic city of Natchez

  during the clashes over civil rights in the 1960s

  an African American Catholic parish and its white priest chose to stand at the center of the African American freedom movement. Based on the oral histories of Holy Family Church in Natchez

  Black And Catholic In The Jim Crow South tells the story of black Catholics' 20th-century struggle through the voices of the people who lived it.

  Black and Catholic in the Jim Crow South

  Danny

  Collum

  Kentucky State University

  Sojourners

  U.S. Catholic