Sheila teaches a variety of creative writing workshops and literature courses including Poetry Workshop, Memoir, Sense of Place, Nature’s Voice, Short Shorts: Adventures in Flash Prose, and Film & Literature: Elements of Desire. Her poetry and prose pieces have appeared in literary journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review,ÌýArts & Letters,ÌýNimrod, and North American Review. Her poetry collections Keeping EvenÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýOk by Me were published by Stephen F. Austin University Press/Texas A&M Consortium. She is a graduate of the MFA Program in Writing at University of California, Irvine. Her rural Kentucky background has given Sheila a strong sense of place, community, and history, as well as a love for stories. Stories are why she tends to strike up conversations with strangers and travel to out-of-the-way places. As a writing instructor, she endeavors to create an atmosphere in which students are inspired to explore their unique voices and generate original work. She also encourages students to refine their work and to seek avenues for publication. She is at °®¶¹ÉçÇø because its philosophy validates her own process of learning and her style of teaching: here she is encouraged to experiment and to cross disciplines, but most importantly, to spend time really working with students.