Linda Tatelbaum



Linda Tatelbaum

1050 Guinea Ridge Road

Appleton, Maine 04862

|207-785-4634 |ltatelb@colby.edu |

|Born Rochester, New York |February 28, 1947 |

EDUCATION

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|Ph.D., May 1972 |Cornell University |Medieval Studies (Literature & Philology) |

| |Ithaca, New York | |

|M. A., September 1969 |Cornell University |Medieval Studies (Literature) |

|B. A., June 1968 |Cornell University |Romance Studies |

EMPLOYMENT

|September 1982-Present |Colby College |Associate Professor of English (1991) |

| |Waterville, Maine | |

| | |Assistant Professor of English |

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|May 1977-September 1982 |University of Maine |Instructor in English |

| |Augusta, Maine | |

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| |Self-Employed |Freelance Teacher & Writer |

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|August 1976-May 1977 |Nathaniel Hawthorne College |Instructor in English |

| |Adult Extension Program | |

| |Antrim, New Hampshire | |

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|December 1974-August 1976 |Project Second Start |Career Education Coordinator; Counselor for |

| |Concord, New Hampshire |Women |

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|March 1973-September 1974 |Loudon & Gilmanton, New Hampshire |Farmhand; greenhouse worker |

| |Canterbury Shaker Village | |

| | |Guide; manuscript transcriber |

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|August 1972-December 1973 |Belknap College |Assistant Professor of English |

| |Center Harbor, New Hampshire | |

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|September 1971-June 1972 |University of California |Lecturer in English |

| |Adult Extension Program | |

| |Riverside, California | |

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|June 1968-August 1968 |Cornell University |Library Assistant, Olin Library Rare Books &|

| |Ithaca, New York |Manuscripts |

WRITING SUMMARY

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Yes and No (a novel). About Time Press, forthcoming October 2003.

Writer on the Rocks—Moving the Impossible. About Time Press, 2000.

Carrying Water as a Way of Life: A Homesteader’s History. About Time Press, 1997.

ARTICLES & ESSAYS (most current)

“Gardening Mutual.” Regional Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston). 2002.

“Paper/Scissors/Rock: How Nature is a Pawn in the Game of Economics.” The Maine Scholar. 2002.

“The Quiet of After is Not.” Maine Times. 2/21/02.

“The Student Migration.” Colby. Fall 2001.

“The Lessons of the Well,” excerpt from Writer on the Rocks—Moving the Impossible, anthologized in Writing on Water, ed. David Rothenberg (MIT Press). 2001.

Summary: articles on gardening, solar energy, organic lifestyle, writing and publishing, philosophy of living. In publications such as Utne Reader, Orion, Harrowsmith, Farmstead, Countryside, Maine Sunday Telegram, Maine Times, Colby Quarterly, Maine in Print and others. 1977-2001.

POEMS

Published in the following: Farmstead, Penumbra, Maine Life, Rockland (Me.) Courier-Gazette, Black Fly Review, Kennebec, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Newsletter, Pattern Gatherings, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual. 1977-1996.

STORIES

Stories published in the following: Spectra 2: Maine Women in the Arts, Portland Review of the Arts, Kfari. 1982-1990.

NOVELS

A Chaos of Crumbs. Unpublished.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Woman Who Speaks Tree (essays).

RADIO

Commentator. Public Radio International, “Marketplace.” 1998-present.

Commentator. National Public Radio, “Living on Earth.” 1998-present.

Commentator. Maine Public Radio, “Maine Things Considered.” 1986, 1995, 2000.

Interview. WRFR (Rockland Community Radio), “Open Book.” 5/02, 8/02.

Book Reading. “Maine Airs” (for visually impaired). Carrying Water (entire). June 2002.

Interview. Public Radio International, “Marketplace,” with David Brancaccio. 1998.

Interview. National Public Radio, “Living on Earth,” with Steve Curwood. 1997, 1999.

Interview. Maine Public Radio, “Maine Things Considered,” with Charlotte Renner (1997, 1999) and Don Carrigan (1998).

Interview. WERU-FM (Blue Hill, Maine), 1997, 1999.

Reader. Maine Public Radio, “Audio Bookshelf” (from Carrying Water). 1996, 1997.

Interview. National Public Radio, “All Things Considered,” with Susan Stamberg. 1979.

TALKS & SEMINARS

Hardy Girls Healthy Women. Waterville, Maine. “Body and Soul (and Pen)” (2003).

Maine Women’s Studies Conference. “How do you speak Body? Crossing the Barrier of Time and Place” (Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 2001). “Intimate Technology: The Body as Tool” (University of Maine, Augusta, Maine, 1999).

Poetry & Story Exchange. University of Maine. Orono, Maine. “Getting Published/Self-Publishing” (2001).

Midcoast Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship. Edgecomb, Maine. “Three Lessons of Simple Living: Choice, Change, Compost” (2001).

Colby Environmental Studies lunch colloquium. Waterville, Maine. “Paper/Scissors/Rock: how can we conscientiously change our environment?” (2000); “‘The forgetting and the remembering of the air’: consonants, vowels, and the present moment” (2001).

Yale Literary Society (St. Anthony Hall). Yale University, New Haven, CT. “Money Isn’t Everything: how will you spend your time?” (2000).

Earth Vision State Conference. Camden, Maine. Keynote Speaker. “Progress as if Survival Mattered”(2000). “Water on the Moon” (1997).

Adas Yoshuron Synagogue. Rockland, Maine. “Harvesting Jewish Roots from Maine Soil” (2000); “Under All is the Land” (2002).

Social Science & Humanities Colloquium. Colby College. Waterville, Maine. “Body English: a course to put body & mind together” (1999).

Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Rockland, Maine. “How to Promote Your Own Book” (1999).

Chewonki Foundation (Maine Coast Semester). Wiscasset, Maine. “A Computer Can’t Move Rocks” (2001). “The Role of (No) Technology in Our Lives” (1999). “Living Simply, Treading Lightly” (1998).

Women’s Studies Colloquium. Colby College, Waterville, Maine. “Used Body Parts: What’s a body for?” (1998).

The Good Life Center (Helen & Scott Nearing Homestead). Harborside, Maine. “The Hard Part about Homesteading: What Helen Left Out” (1997). “Women and Homesteading” (1998).

Maine Humanities Council Seminar Leader. “After Frost” (Union, Maine, 1999). “Civil War” (Union, Maine, 1999). “Utopias/Dystopias: How to Live/How Not to Live” (Rockland, Maine, 1997). “Text and Margin, Voice and Silence” (Rockland, Maine, 1996). “Illness and its Literary Metaphors” (Pen Bay Medical Center, Rockland, Maine, 1995).

Maine Humanities Council Program Scholar/Lecturer/Discussion Leader. “The Land of Norumbega: Maine in the Age of Exploration” (various Maine Public Libraries, 1990-91). “New Books, New Readers” (Lithgow Library, Augusta, Maine, 1993-1994). “Let’s Talk About It” series (various Maine Public Libraries, 1988-1990).

READINGS

Literary Readings. In many venues, including: Maine Festival, Common Ground Country Fair, Live Poets Society, Maine Poets’ Festival, University of Maine, Colby College, Westbrook College, Unity College, Weber State University (Ogden, Utah), cafés, bookstores, public libraries. 1978-present.

CONSULTING

Guest Speaker. Appleton Village School. On Judaism, the Holocaust, writing. Appleton, Maine. 1985-present.

Visiting Writer. Mount Desert High School. Bar Harbor, Maine. 1998.

Trainer. “New Books, New Readers” (Maine Humanities Council). 1994.

Humanities Evaluator. “The Poetry Monster” ( Maine Humanities Council/Actors’ Theater of Maine). 1993.

Editorial Consultant. Houghton Mifflin. 1991.

Judge. Poetry Fellowship of Maine. 1991.

HONORS & AWARDS

Listed in Directory of American Poets & Fiction Writers. 1992 - current.

“Best Picks of Independent Publishers” (Writer on the Rocks). February 2000.

Community Service Award. Medomac Valley Grange, Burkettville, Maine: “for making our little village known to the world through her books.” 2000.

Semi-finalist, Small Press Book Award for Carrying Water as a Way of Life. 1997.

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