Dale Prentiss resume

Education

•  Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA (Jun 90, U.S. History)

•  Fulbright Research Fellow, Center for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala, Sweden (Sep 89 - Sep 90)

•  Graduate Studies, Stanford University, MA, January 1986; Ph.D. oral examinations, June 1986

•  BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Highest Honors from the History Department (May 81)

Professional Writing and Teaching

•  President, Creative Kick Productions, Royal Oak, MI (Apr 99 - present).

  •  Organizational profiles

  •  Centennial histories

  •  Website development

  •  Writing guidance

  •  Clients include Harness Dickey & Pierce, the U.S. Army National Automotive Center, Detroit Docs Film Festival, Rochester Systems Ltd., Integrated Concepts and Research Corporation, High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Inventing the Invisible, Grassroot Marketing, Everland Design, Harris Consultants, and numerous individuals.

•  Founder and Producer, Ironwork Retreats, Clinton, MI (Oct 98 - present).

  •  Produced and directed nine weekend retreats for 25-45 writers, songwriters, and artists at a rural mansion

•  Historian, U.S. Army TACOM, Warren, MI (Jan 92 - Apr 99.)

  •  Writing

  •  Editing

  •  Program managing

  •  Publishing

  •  Documentary film-making

•  Oakland University Lecturer, Rochester, MI (Jan 91 - Apr 93)

  •  Hist 115: American History Since 1876 (1993)

  •  Hist 300: Research and Interpretation (1992)

  •  Hist 114: American History Before 1876 (1991)

Creative Writing

•  CKick Writing Seminars, Royal Oak, MI (2003 - present).

  •  Produce and lead 8-week writing workshops for 4-8 writers

•  Ironwork Retreats, Clinton, MI (Oct 98 - present).

  •  Produced and led writing workshops at eight weekend retreats for 25-45 writers, songwriters, and artists at a rural mansion

•  "Writing the Memoir/Personal Essay" (Jul 02)

  •  Week-long Cranbrook writing seminar with John Skoyles, Ph.D., Emerson College English Department professor. Birmingham, MI.

•  Beyond the Lines: Writing What You Couldn’t Say, Plain View Press, Austin, TX (Oct 00).

  •  I have twenty pages of poetry and prose in this anthology.

•  "Plain View Press Publishing Lab" (Nov 98 - Nov 99).

  •  200-hour poetry and prose lab with poet and editor Margo LaGattuta.

•  "Deep Memoir," Lawrence Sutin (Jul 98).

  •  One-week intensive seminar at the Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota-Duluth.

•  "Writers At Work" (May 98)

  •  Weekend writing seminar, Oakland Community College, Rochester Hills, MI.

•  "Writing From the Heart" (Oct 97 - Apr 98)

  •  Three separate courses taught by poet and editor Margo LaGattuta.