Mindy Kronenberg CV

 Stony Brook-Southampton College, M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature, 2008 Empire State College, B.A. Cultural Studies/English 1996 Suffolk Community College, A.A. Humanities 1974 

  Academic:Empire State College, Mentor/academic assessor, 1996-present. Develop and teach courses in writing, literature, cultural studies, and the arts for both study groups and individual modes, graduate and undergraduate. Advise students as primary mentor (faculty advisor) to set up degree programs; advise faculty across Areas of Study on writing studies for students. Serve as AOS Convenor, CAC assessor, PLA assessor/advisor, first/second reader for Graduate theses. Assessed student orientation essays to determine skills level and appropriate placement in writing studies, 1998-2010. Faculty Associate, Center for Mentoring and Learning, 2011-2012 Developed resource guides for adjunct faculty, helped develop sources for CML Website, and investigated opportunities for adjunct faculty professional development. Faculty Development funds recipient, panelist at the 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Annual Conference & Bookfair, Chicago, Il, representing the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Faculty Development funds recipient, speaker/reader at the 2017 Arts in New Harmony, A Festival of Arts, Music, and the Spoken Word, New Harmony, IN ESC Foundation Award, Excellence in Part-Time Mentoring, 2016 Committees Middle States Writing/Revision-Editing Committee, 2019-2020Competency-Based iPLA Guides (College Writing), 2017-19Creative Writing Studies/Catalogue Sub-committee, 2016 Academic Assessment Task Force, 2012-2018 Academic Sustainability, 2012-2020  AOS-Cultural Studies Basic Communications Guidelines Assessment, 2012-2016 Board memberfor the Center for Mentoring and Learning, 2007- 2013 General Education Assessment Review (GEAR) for Basic Communication, reviewed/assessed writing samples/college-wide rubric, 2011 LIC Faculty/Staff Development Chair/co-Chair (LIC), 2010-2020 Pekearo Scholarship review committee for writing scholarships, 2016Student Degree Planning Guide Revision Team, 2012-2018 SUNY Empire State College Long Island Center Poetry Month/Arts/Diversity Programs: Facilitator/speaker, “Celebrating Long Island’s Poetic Spirit.” William Miller House, Miller Place, NY. April 16, 2016 Facilitator/speaker, “Raising Voices, Raising Spirits: Poetry as Personal and Community Narrative.” Walt Whitman Birthplace, Huntington, NY.  April 26, 2014 Facilitator/speaker: “Fitting In: Diversity on Long Island, Poetry Reading Honoring Jupiter Hammon.” Lloyd Manor House, Lloyd Harbor, NY.  April 20, 2013 Presenter: “Poetry and Healing” session, writing workshop and discussion, Whole Health Living Residency, February 27^th,  2023 Volunteer Mentor for post-orientation virtual event: “Meet Your SUNY Empire Network.” College-wide workshop helping newly admitted students understand the student-mentor relationship, discuss best practices, and answer student questions in real time. June 9^th, 2021 Co-facilitator/performer: Creative Expressions, poetry slam/Academic Conference/All College editions, 2021-2022 Panel Member, Virtual Exchange: Learning for a Sustainable Future, fall 2021 Workshop Leader for Hudson Valley Center Arts residency, “Creativity Across the Disciplines.” Lead a session on Art & Sustainability. November 2015/16 Presenter, Fall Academic Conference, The Arts in Action session, “Summoning the Creative and Critical Narrative of the Arts,” October, 2015 Participant, “Creative Reading: Poetry and Prose by Downstate Writers” (Metro, HVC, LIC, regional CDL/Graduate programs). Faculty, staff, and administrators share their creative writing with colleagues; January 2015 AOS/All College Presenter: “The Language of Poetry and Photography,” 2012 Faculty/Staff Development presentation, Long Island Center, “Poetry and Medicine,” with guests from the Humanities Institute, Stony Brook Medical Center, 2010. Presented as part of a panel at the Metro Center (NYC) on Educational Planning. Shared creative strategies to encourage interdisciplinary approaches in building degree plans, 2009. Faculty Development presentation, Long Island Center: “Poetry and Community,” 2008 Interim Director of Academic Support Services (DAS) for the Long Island Center, 2007-2008.  Researched and coauthored the foundation materials for the Bridge and MAP (Maximizing Academic Potential) programs, assisted in configuring a budget for academic resources, coordinated skills workshops, including writing, math, and computer technology. Worked with students one-on-one in honing writing and reading skills. Presented Academic Skills Assessment and Development: Part Art and Part Science, with DAS group at Empire State College's All College Conference, 2007 Participant, the “Downstate Writing Group,” examined and shared methods among writing faculty for best practices in teaching writing across the centers and curricula, 2007-2008 Presenter, “Poets Among Us” session at All College, 2007-2010. Host/facilitator, 2011-present. Presenter, “Writers in the Community,” reading at All College Conference, 2007-2013. All About Mentoring, a Publication of the Empire State College Mentoring Institute: Issue 55, autumn 2021, two poems Issue 52, spring 2019, two poems Issue 49, fall 2016, three poems Issue 44, winter 2013-14, three poems Issue 42, winter 2012, “Adjunct Nation,” essay. Issue 39, spring 2011, “Upstream Gallery Exhibit: ‘Collaboration is the Theme,’” artist statement and poem.   Issue 38, winter 2010, “Poetry and Community,” essay. Issue 36, fall 2009, two poems. Issue 31, summer 2006, four poems. Issue 30, winter 2006, “Mentoring: a Partnership in the Learning Process”  Additional Teaching ExperiencePoetry Mentoring Program, 2018-2019 Working with high school students to develop poems and produce an anthology (facilitated by Suffolk/Nassau County Poet Laureates) Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Stony Brook University), 2017/2020 Conduct creative writing workshops for retired adults. The Walt Whitman Birthplace Education Committee, 2014-2015 Conduct poetry workshops/readings for Long Island school districts.  Southampton Writers Conference Teaching Assistant for Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, summer 2008 Teaching Assistant for U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, summer 2007 Cornell University Extension, writing adjunct, 2000 Developed and taught course for business professionals in strengthening communication skills in the academic and corporate sectors. Suffolk Community College, adjunct instructor, writing and communications, 1988-1998. Developed and taught courses in composition, essay writing, and business writing, oral communication and public speaking. Editor, Middle States Educational Accreditation survey for Suffolk County Community College, 1988-1989. The Young Writer’s Institute, writing mentor, 1994-2002 Worked with adolescent writers in developing, revising, and editing essays, fiction and poetry manuscripts. Assisted in editing the Institute’s yearly monograph. Learning Communications Consultants, Inc., workshop leader, 1987-1990 Taught writing workshops for adults through continuing education programs in school districts across Long Island, focusing on college preparation and business communications. BOCES I, II, and III, registered instructor of writing/poetry, 1985-present Teach workshops in expository and creative writing (poetry, fiction, essay) for elementary and secondary schools. Develop seminars for teachers to incorporate creative writing strategies and enhance literacy in the curriculum. Adult EducationPrograms (writing and literature): Bay Shore school district (1991-1993), Miller Place school district (1985-1989), Patchogue-Medford school district (1981-1984) Poets & Writers, Inc. registered writer/teacher, college level/school district programs in creative writing (poetry, essay, memoir, fiction) sponsored by arts organizations, colleges and schools, 1982-present. Community Programs:Center for Environmental Education & Discovery, Poetry Program, 2022All Souls Church Stony Brook, Poetry Saturdays, 2021Creative Expressions Poetry Slam (SUNY) 2020/21Poetry Street (Zoom) 2020/2021Sag Harbor Library (Zoom) 2020Oceanside Library, 2015/2018/2019 Port Jefferson Library, Local Authors Fair, 2019Poets House, NYC, poetry fundraiser, 2013-2015 Port Jefferson Library, Poetry Month Celebration, 2011-2012 Babylon Arts Council, The Writers Space community program, 1996- 2011 Emma Clark Library, Euterpe Poetry Group, poetry workshop, 2010 Patchogue-Medford Library, poetry writing workshop series, 1984-1990/2010 Live Poets Society, writing workshop leader, 1991-1994; 2008 North Shore Public Library, creative writing instructor, 2001-2002 Longwood Library, creative writing teacher, 1990-2005 Sayville Library, creative writing course, 1999-2003 Taproot Workshops, writing workshop instructor, 1986-1989 Visting Authors & Artists Program (Three Village/Greenlawn school districts) 1983-1986, 1988 Writers Alliance, fiction/prose workshops, 1983-1985 

   OPEN, an art & poetry chapbook, Claire Songbirds Publishing, 2017 Images of America: Miller Place, Arcadia Publishing, 2010 Dismantling the Playground, poetry chapbook, Birnham Wood publishers, 1994. Essays, articles, and poems in over 700 periodicals in the U.S. and abroad (literary journals, commercial magazines, anthologies, online publications) including: Bridging the Waters: Korean and English Poetry, 2023; PaumanokTransitions, an anthology of poetry and photography, 2022; Twin Towers/TwinDecades, poems in memory of 9/11; The Ekphrasis Project II and III, an International Collection of Poems and Paintings edited by Joost DeJonge (2019); Like Light: 25 years of Poetry and Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers, Bright Hill Press, 2018; The Heart is Improvisational, Guernica Editions Inc., 2017; Grabbing the Apple, an Anthology of New York Women Poets, JB Stillwater Co., 2016; Writing Outside the Lines, anthology, Wylde Side Press, 2013; Oberon Poetry Review, 2011-2012 (featured poet); The Southampton Review, 2008-2011; Paumanok: Poems and Pictures ofLong Island, Cross Cultural Communications, Inc. 2009; The East Hampton Star, 2008; Swansea Poetry Magazine (Wales), 2006-2007; The Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, 1986/1989; Becoming The  Woman I’ve Wanted, Papier-Mâché Press anthology, 1994; Award Winners II: Crosscurrents Award Winners II Issue, 1988; Writer’s Digest, 1986. Sunstorm Magazine, art criticism/cultural reporter 1980-1989.  Professional writing projects include scripts for corporate, industrial and educational film & video: Producers East Media, Inc., 1984-1998 Researched, developed, and wrote award-winning scripts for internal communications/government proposals for video production for Avis, Grumman, LILCO, Modern Litho Press, Nikon, and Purolator. Assisted in editing and laying sound tracks for video and film. Produced recording sessions and worked with narrators/actors. Supervised scripts for cable advertising. JHD Productions, 1988  Edited and rewrote project proposal for United States Navy involving aircraft carrier computer systems and flight repair.  Swee’ Pea Productions, 1971-1974 Writer, assistant drector, and creative development staff member for independent film and animation.         Performance: Co-wrote script and set staging for Two Women, a Poetic Conversation, a collaborative performance piece, 1991. Co-wrote and performed in ensemble cast for A Look at the Single Condition, a spoken word-theater piece, 1988-89.                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 Certificate of Recognition, Int’l Cultural Development Inc., (U.N.) 2019 Bard’s Initiative in Literary Outreach Award, (Local Gems Press), 2017 Honoree, Community Poets Program, Suffolk County Legislature, 2010 Recipient, Decentralization Grant, Huntington Arts Council, 1999, 2009 Nominee, Pushcart Prize, 1989/1990/2007/2018 Nominee, General Electric Writer Award, 1988 First Prize, Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition, 1986 

 Member, Editorial Board, Paumanok Transitions (2021) Editor-in-Chief/Reviewer, Book/Mark Quarterly Review, 1994-present. Poetry Editor, Oberon poetry magazine, 2015-present Co-editor, A Taste of Poetry, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, 2015 Guest Poetry Editor, Long Island Sounds anthology, 2011 Editorial Assistant, Southampton Review, 2008 Associate Editor, A Slice of Life, Babylon Council on the Arts journal, 2005 Mentor/Editor, The Young Writer’s Institute monograph, 1995-1998 Managing Editor, North Atlantic Review, 1989-1991 Author, creative writing manual, Taproot Workshops Inc., 1990 Guest Editor, educational materials, Chronicle Guidance Publications, 1989 Editorial staff member, Island Women, anthology, published 1985 Assistant Editor, Zephyr Magazine, 1981-1982                                                                                                 

    Facilitated/Hosted Programs:              Oberon Poetry Magazine readings 2015-2022                                                                        The Writer’s Space workshop, Babylon Arts Council, 1999-2011   Long Island Small Press Book Fair, Danford’s Inn, Port Jefferson, 1998/1999 Women’s History Month forum, Borders Books, Bohemia, 1994-1997 Taproot Marathon Anniversary Reading, Middle Island Library, 1990  Libraries: Amityville; Babylon; Bay Shore; Centereach; Comsewogue Library; Cutchogue; Emma S. Clark, E, Setauket; Hicksville; Holtsville; Huntington; Lindenhurst; Locust Valley; Longwood; Islip; New York Public Library/Jefferson Market Branch; Northport; Oceanside; Patchogue-Medford; Port Jefferson; Riverhead; Roslyn, [panel discussion on “Long Island Literary Heritage;”] Riverhead; Sachem; Sag Harbor; Sayville; Shoreham-Wading River; Smithtown; Southampton; Wantagh. Colleges/Schools: Adelphi University; Arrowhead School; Bay View Elementary School (residency); Briarcliff College, Patchogue; C.W. Post; Dowling College, Live Poets Conference; Empire State College; Gateway Elementary School, National Poetry Month forum; Babylon Junior High; Greenlawn Middle School (poetry residency); Hostra University, Authors Forum; Miller Place High School; Molloy College, Women’s History Month presentation; Nassau Community College, Long Island Poets Forum; Nesconset Elementary School; Old Field Middle School; Port Jefferson High School; Smithtown Elementary; Smithtown High School (Careers in the Arts Conference); Southampton College; Southwest Elementary School assembly [Brentwood]; St. Joseph’s College; Suffolk Community College; SUNY Stony Brook, Writers’ Roundtable. Institutions/Bookstores: All Souls Episcopal Church, Stony Brook; Arts Councils of Smithtown, Riverhead, Babylon, Ocean Beach, and Port Jefferson; Arts Site Gallery, Riverhead; Barnes & Noble, Commack, Lake Grove, Manhasset; Avram Theater, Southampton; Best Bargain Books, Centereach; Book Revue, Huntington; Borders Books, Sayville, Stony Brook; Bright Hill Literary Center, Treadwell, N.Y.; Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor; Central Hall Artists, SoHo; Central Islip Psychiatric Center; Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, Paumanok anthology reading; Commack Jewish Center; Conklin Barn, Huntington; Galleries at Hampton Square, Old Stump, Gallery North; The Good Times Books Store, Port Jefferson; Hecksher Park, LI Fall Festival; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art; Huntington YMCA Poetry Festival; Karma Dog summer poetry series, Hansom House, Southampton; Kitchen Kaboret; Mt. Sinai Congregational Church, presentation: “The Literary Landscape of Long Island;”  North Sea Poetry Scene: poetry reading for Long Island Sounds poetry anthology; North Sea Reading Series, Sag Harbor; Port Jefferson Arts Council; Prism Gallery; Runaway Bay Books, Sayville; Setauket Neighborhood House; Smithtown Arts Council (Mills Pond House); St. Peter’s Church (Bay Shore); Stony Brook Community Fund;  SUNY Stony Brook, reading/book party for the Light of City and Sea, an anthology of Suffolk County poetry; Temple Isaiah; The Center for Creative Consciousness; The Peace-Smith’s House, Massapequa, NY; The Upfront Muse, New York City; Unitarian Fellowships of Bay Shore, Bellport, Huntington; Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, Huntington, NY.; The Dog-Eared Bard’s Bookshop, East Northport;  Ekphrastic Exhibitions/Programs and Art InstallationsPainted Poetry & Painterly Poetics; an ekphrastic notion- Volume 4: Meandering Cognitions/Orpheus Longing for Eurydice, Rijksmuseum, 2023  Sculpture on the Trail, an Art & Nature Exhibition; curated and performed in a poetry program coordinating with an outdoor installation at the Center for Environmental Education (CEED), Brookhaven, NY August 2022  The City of Light: a celebration of urban design, Turin, Italy, 2022  The Ekphrasis Project, an international online arts initiative/archive facilitated by Dutch painter Joost de Jonge, 2016/2019/2021  Writing the Walls, Themes of Love in poetry and art, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, June 2015  Poetry and the Art of Eating, Gallery North Setauket, NY April, 2014  Collaboration is the Theme, Upstream Gallery, Dobb’s Ferry, NY, 2010 The Body Altered, Art Sites LLC Gallery, Riverhead, NY, 2009 Breaking the Walls of Bias: Art from Survivors, Survivor Art Foundation & GalerieBelage, West Hampton Beach, NY, 2008 Broadcast Media/InternetAppearances Include: Second Saturdays, All Souls Episcopal Church (https://www.allsouls-stonybrook.org/poetry-series-1) Poetry Street, (https://poetrystreetontheroad.com/) Blogtalkradio.com/Life Styles Cablevision, WLIW, Hauppauge                   Ch. 25, Riverhead Poetryvlog.com RadioFree Hamptons WBAU, Adelphi WJFF, Catskills Radio WLTV, Southampton WLIW, Bay Shore WNLG, Sag Harbor WUSB, Stony Brook WVHC, LIPC, C.W. Post Professional Memberships: Academy of American Poets American Association of University Women Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) Council of Literary Magazines & Small Presses Critics Circle Guide Inspiration Plus, Inc., teaching the arts through science (Board Member) (https://www.inspirationplus.org/aboutus.html) Long Island Poetry Archival Center (Board of Directors) Miller Place-Mount Sinai Historical Society (Trustee and Docent) Poets & Writers, Inc. registered writer/instructor Poets House, NYC