Writer in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, winter, 2016.

The Juniper Institute, U. Mass. Amherst, 2012.

Novelist in Residence, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, spring, 2007-2009.

Visiting Hurst Professor, Washington University, Fall, 2009.

Writer in Residence, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, fall, 2008.

Centrum Writer’s Workshop, Port Townsend, 2007.

Denver University: Writer in Residence, 1988-2000. Visiting Writer, spring, 2004.

Vermont College, Post Graduate Writer’s Conference, summer, 2004 and 2012.

Naropa University at Prameni, Festival Poeticky, Prague, spring, 2003 and summer, 2013.

Writers at Work, Utah, summer 2002.

Bard College: MFA workshops, spring 2000.

Brown University, Naropa University: Practicums (ongoing).

Vermont Studio Center, winter 2001, 2013; spring 2003; fall 2006, 2010.

Centrum Writer’s workshop, Port Townsend, summer 2000.

University of Trento, Italy, spring 1994.

Tenth Annual International Colloquium on twentieth Century French Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993.

Novel of the Americas Symposia, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1990, 1991, 1992.