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I've spent 26 years at five different two-year institutions as a part-time faculty member, a full-time faculty member, a basketball coach, an athletic director, a department chair, an academic dean, and a program director. I'm currently a tenured associate professor of English at Georgia Perimeter College, teaching composition and literature at the Clarkston and Alpharetta locations.

I'm also a professional writer with hundreds of publications to my credit. I write a weekly column for The Gwinnett Daily Post, Georgia's second-largest daily newspaper; my column also appears in the Newton Citizen and the Rockdale Citizen. I write a national monthly column for The Chronicle of Higher Education and blog at www.chronicle.com as well as www.nccforum.org. My essays, stories, and poems have appeared in the AJC, Gwinnett Magazine, The Clearing House, Academe, and Southern Poetry Review, to name just a few. And my first book, Building a Career in  America's Community Colleges, was published in January 2011.

I earned a bachelor's degree in English from West Georgia College (now the University of West Georgia) and a master's in English with Emphasis in Writing at the University of Tennessee. I also have 30 graduate hours beyond the master's, mostly in writing and American literature.

I currently live in Gwinnett County with my wife and two teenage sons. I also have a married daughter and a son in college, both of whom attended GPC as dual enrollment students.